Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain: nominate Dewey, elect Dewey, have a tailor-made Old Guard candidate established for 1944. But to a big group of Republicans who distrust Dewey, it would be very bad medicine to ride to victory on the tails of a man whom they regard as a mere political opportunist. They are far from sure that it would be a ride to victory. Many of them think it would be worse for their party to ride to victory with a group whom they regard as reactionary...
...York-born Lewis Mumford is no intellectual opportunist. He was long a disciple of the late Sir Patrick Geddes, the sociologist-biologist-philosopher who gave him his enthusiasm for sound city planning. A self-styled "basic communist," Mumford disapproved of Marxists but writhed when he was called a "liberal." A man of parts, he wrote excellent architectural criticism for The New Yorker, lectured at Columbia, Dartmouth and Harvard, got himself denounced as "a sublimated recruiting officer" when he called for a U.S. break with Germany, Italy and Japan...
...degree to which convention is outraged is up to the hostess,' declares the little pamphlet issued by the employment office. 'I am an opportunist,' says Jeeves, who happens to live in Lowell House, 'and I grab my chances where I see them...
...would need. He was an Asiatic expansionist before the Manchukuo Incident, a totalitarian seven years before the Konoye reorganization. The crew haircut, the round, boy's face, the carefree smile, the candor, the courtesy, the mystic organ-note of his speechifying, all mask the hard core of the opportunist who has made of himself what he is and hopes to make of himself still more...
...Manhattan Island. With dozens of minor characters, scenes in subways, taxis, rubberneck wagons, a producer's office, an artist's studio, an all-night Coffee Pot, the Metropolitan Museum, the play brightly wanders all around the town-without ever really getting inside it. Its people-the opportunist and the radical, the glamor girl and the little old lady, the sailor and the floozy (Ann Thomas)-are all cut out of cardboard. Only Rice's bitter, cynical, wisecracking producer walks on his own legs, and even he is stagy...