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From: <tom@discobolus.co.za>
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> Dear Don, List and Jansy,
>
> I first heard the word "haroosh" uttered by a schoolmaster in 1953, during
> the Rhodesian Schoolboys' Exploration Society's Expedition to the Lower
> Sabi and Chipinda Pools. I suspect it was imported from India. I
understood
> it as an old Colonial Service word, defined roughly as "a general process
> of bureaucratic disturbance, confusion, fear, suspicion and agitation,
> usually involving the search for the guilty and the punishment of the
> innocent, initiated by the nabob at the apex of the administrative pyramid
> in reaction to the incompetence or political incorrectness of an underling
> or underlings."
>
> This phenomenon is not unknown in the groves of Academe, IM(H)O. (The H is
> there to add some humility, Jansy).
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom (Rymour)
>
From: <tom@discobolus.co.za>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (18
lines) ------------------
> Dear Don, List and Jansy,
>
> I first heard the word "haroosh" uttered by a schoolmaster in 1953, during
> the Rhodesian Schoolboys' Exploration Society's Expedition to the Lower
> Sabi and Chipinda Pools. I suspect it was imported from India. I
understood
> it as an old Colonial Service word, defined roughly as "a general process
> of bureaucratic disturbance, confusion, fear, suspicion and agitation,
> usually involving the search for the guilty and the punishment of the
> innocent, initiated by the nabob at the apex of the administrative pyramid
> in reaction to the incompetence or political incorrectness of an underling
> or underlings."
>
> This phenomenon is not unknown in the groves of Academe, IM(H)O. (The H is
> there to add some humility, Jansy).
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom (Rymour)
>