Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snarl. "Send them a message," he said, in that thick, dark voice. Half an inch beneath the surface of his words there ran an undercurrent of menace. There was a backwoods defiance in the fire that lit George Wallace up. There was also something, more than something, of the opportunist and the demagogue...
...opportunist in Wallace that eventually made his peace with Alabama blacks, and even won their crucial support in his last campaign? Or was it a matter of amazing grace? If slavery and all that followed were the American original sin, George Wallace ended his journey in the vicinity of redemption. It was a strange and moving American spectacle to see Wallace a few weeks ago receive an honorary degree from Tuskegee Institute, the blacks in the audience applauding him with a forgiving warmth. Wounded, in his wheelchair, subdued and sweet, he blew them kisses...
...Mexican culture. Fuentes' first novel "Where the Air is Clear" (1958) is a mythical history of Mexico City. In this novel Mexico's mythical past of rituals and sacrifices appears parallel with the present. In "The Death of Artemio Cruz" (1962), the story is narrated by the revolutionary turned opportunist of the book's title as he lies on his death bed. The story is told by multiple voices with a constantly shifting narrative and chronological viewpoint...
...coffee and doughnuts to his law students in 1969, while [then-president] Pusey was calling in the state troopers to break the heads of his students. The instinct active in the Bok of 1969 will steer him away from sustaining apartheid, and back to himself. Bok was not an opportunist in 1969. His response was not just astute, it was fresh and genuine and it made him the only possible choice for president. Let Bok end his term as president as honorably as he began its he still has that chance...
...minutes later, Landry the opportunist took advantage of a Brophy error to earn her second score...