Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stick. Though the shipyard gets much of his time, more than half of schlieker's profits still come from trading, specially in steel. When questioned about he future, he says only: "I have no imperialistic ambitions." But as a British intelligence report once noted: "He is a ruthless opportunist, vain, ambitious, and egotistical . . . who seems destined for leading role in Ruhr industry, whatever orm of organization it adopts in the future...
...extent that Felix Krull is faithful to the novel, it is a success. However, in a few instances Director Kurt Hoffman and Screenwriter Robert Thoeren apparently thought they could improve on Mann's material. They were wrong. Their main mistake is in changing Felix Krull from a calculating, unprincipled opportunist to a sort of Horatio Alger who undeservedly benefits from immoral circumstances...
...summer stock shows; Bloomgarden, too, knew Preston's work. Says Da Costa: "Preston has energy and he has reality. He's an actor who can project himself larger than life. And he has enough sureness of technique and enough urbanity to portray the con man and the opportunist without resorting to a wax mustache. The part calls for a guy with an open face and a great big frustration which he can satisfy only by taking the easy way out -conning people...
...charm for some of his most consistent critics. To an off-record evening at his home in suburban Wesley Heights, Nixon invited a dozen British Washington correspondents who have given the readers at home a general picture of Nixon as a cross between a slick operator and an unprincipled opportunist. Nixon ducked no questions except those that implied criticism of the President. He apologized for nothing, admitted that he had called Democrats many a hard name, but never has called them a party of Communists, as Harry Truman likes to say. Admitted Nixon: "Politics the way I play...
...Synod of the Rumanian Orthodox Church. In 1927 came the great change; Millionaire Groza abruptly abandoned what he called the "Sodom and Gomorrah" of Rumanian politics, retired to his Transylvanian estates, led a lusty Rabelaisian life and, in his words, "learned to think dialectically." Translation: Groza, an opportunist of agility, saw Russia as a coming power...