Browse Items (44 total)

Kunnap, V., The Paper "STREAM"

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Kunnap, V., The Paper "STREAM", Rutgers, 1960

"Poet: Suslov, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1960

Look! This is the method of a conveyer belt,
But it seems to resemble more of a red…

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None, The Labyrinth

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None, The Labyrinth, Rutgers & Harvard, None

"Written on the papers: “Order, Instruction, Decree, Explanation to Paragraph No. 141, Supplement to Instruction No. 638, Item 45 of Order No. 651…”

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Kunnap, V., The house with ghosts

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Kunnap, V., The house with ghosts, Rutgers, 1972

"Poet: Shumilin, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1972
He is just a genius for a shady business deal:
Fake names on the payroll he shows as…

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Rabinovich, Y. - First photo; Tsvetkov, A. - Second photo, The Guide!

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Rabinovich, Y. - First photo; Tsvetkov, A. - Second photo, The Guide!, Rutgers, Chatham House, & Harcourt Brace, 1969 - first photo; 1965 - second photo

First photo: In this cartoon we see a Mertonian bureaucratic personality emerge as a result of overemphasizing the importance of rules in sustaining…

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Kunnap, V., The case of pipe supply being a pipe dream

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Kunnap, V., The case of pipe supply being a pipe dream, Rutgers, 1975

"Poet: Smirnovsky, S. The Fighting pencil” group, 1979

Memos, notices alone
Never get things done but stall.
And the pipeline, as we…

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Rabinovich, Y., The "most promising" employee

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Rabinovich, Y., The "most promising" employee, Rutgers, 1964

"Poet: Tumarinson, G.

This boss is generous with promises—
He may make hundreds of promises...
But all his claims are simple proofs
Of his…

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Kunnap, V., The "gted" manager

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Kunnap, V., The "gted" manager, Rutgers, 1968

"Poet: Alekseyev, V. ""The Fighting Pencil” group, 1968
Sycophants and bootlickers
Are untiring as such,
And sometimes
Being praised by them too…

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Piho, E., Tell us exactly in what way we limit your initiative!

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Piho, E., Tell us exactly in what way we limit your initiative!, Rutgers & McGraw Hill, 1970s

According to Ewing (1977), employee stultification is a feature common to all bureaucracies. As a hierarchy, bureaucracy always seeks control and…

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Rozantsev, V., SOS

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Rozantsev, V., SOS, Rutgers, 1970s

This cartoon is the brilliant takes on how emergency situations are handled by bureaucratic organizations. Here, the only responses of the bureaucrat…

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Trunev, Y., Smokagogue

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Trunev, Y., Smokagogue, Rutgers, 1973

"Smokagogue is an acronym of two words: smoke and demagogue.

Poet: Suslov, V.

To clean the air?—He says that we must.
“I’ll put the filters…

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