Word: chameleon
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...inside, Slocum is a boiling cauldron of some moon-pulled witch's brew. He knows only dimly of that "something" which makes him fearful, disgusting, and self-loathing. Superficially, he maintains a calm indifference and manipulative diplomacy. He is so much like a chameleon that he acquires the characteristics of persons he's dealing with, including a stutter. For Heller, he is the conglomerate image of corporate man in America, at once the symbol of upward and downward mobility. "I ascend," he says, "like a Condor, while falling to pieces...
...wonder if much is gained by introducing the new hero. A Dressing of Diamond is likely to send them figuratively off to Strasbourg to stone the author's house and shout, "Bring back Van der Valk!" The judgment may be a scrap premature. Freeling is not quite the chameleon poet of crime he thought he was, but he remains a writer worth waiting...
...most part seem, like most of us, to be more Rosovsky-type than Dunlop-type people. The U-Hall staff this year has been fairly low-key and relaxed, like Rosovsky; people who keep their jobs through the administrations of several bosses have to be somewhat chameleon like to survive...
...Riding Hood. As a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, The Salamander will be widely sold, but it reads like a mere shadow between West's conception and the inevitable movie. It is hard not to conclude that somewhere film technicians are already at work outfitting a chameleon with an asbestos costume. Paul Gray
...sure, ITT's German equipment was under Nazi control, though, as Anthony Sampson argues, the company tried to conduct business as usual for as long as possible. In Sampson's view, ITT is not merely a multinational giant but a state within states, a moral chameleon that will do business with any complaisant regime and try to prevent the election of politicians who threaten the corporate interests...