Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order to understand this basic drive, it is not necessary to go back to his youth as a Russian emigre flute player educated at the Sorbonne, or to indicate that he is a stocky fellow with Napoleonic tendencies. It is only necessary to say that he is an opportunist, with an eye that sharpened slowly. He was nearly 50 when he saw his chance to be a new De Mille. He had drifted around as a salesman for M-G-M in France, a producer for Columbia Pictures in Hollywood, a photographer of art treasures in Rome, and a lecturer...
...sympathetic character. Not so the chief character of The Birthday King, by British Novelist Gabriel Fielding. Ruprecht Weidmann is the scion of a wealthy manufacturing family that has a slight admixture of Jewish blood and is trying desperately to get into Hitler's good graces. A cold opportunist, Ruprecht commits his anti-Nazi brother to a concentration camp, drowns a companion, betrays a business associate who is plotting against Hitler, sends off a dozen of his factory workers to serve as medical guinea pigs. Ruprecht is a kind of lago beyond the reach of life-and the credibility...
When it is espoused by hustlers of the market place, pragmatism often sounds like a mixture of common sense and opportunism. Indeed, inasmuch as it advocates belief in propositions that provide satisfaction, it is the age-old philosophy of the common man. The opportunist who cares not a white either for ethics or selfconsistency might be termed a "soft" to get into trouble. The "hard" pragmatist seeks to avoid the eventual plight of his less scrupulous comrade by two tactics. First, he looks upon life as a constant quest for new and higher values. Secondly, he remains ever flexible, ever...
...from the New Frontier, the little cold-eyed man who stepped off the airliner in Washington might have been Britain's Prime Minister rather than the Opposition leader. Even in his own Labor Party six months ago. pipe-puffing Harold Wilson was regarded as a slippery opportunist and a constant threat to the party's hard-won unity under the late Hugh Gaitskell. Though his views on most major issues were calculatedly murky, "Little Harold," as his foes call him, drew left-wing support by condemning U.S. handling of Cuba, cheering on the unilateralists, bitterly opposing Britain...
Although the Brazilian economy has shown a marked improvement over the last several months, President Joao Goulart is "too much an opportunist to continue this necessary but unpopular economic planning," Thomas Skidmore, research fellow in Latin American Studies, said Tuesday...