Word: chameleonic
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...Dwight Eisenhower, whom he described as "once a man of integrity." General George Marshall, who was Secretary of Defense during the Korean War, was "the errand boy of the State Department." General Matthew Ridgway, who took over command of United Nations forces after MacArthur's dismissal, was a "chameleon," who "did a complete flip-flop in 24 hours" when he discovered that Washington opposed Mac-Arthur's war strategy. General Maxwell Taylor was "an ambitious man who will never do anything to jeopardize his career...
...costumes that come close to perfection in their imitation of nudity, and their dances have an angular brutality. Faust appears as the prisoner of a giant glob of seaweed, suspended above the stage in a play of lights that have the harsh glare of misery. Mephistopheles is a sexual chameleon-a lover of "perverse roses," a force of violent poetry...
...average delegate to an American political convention has a remarkable chameleon-like quality which allows him to turn back from a back-stabbing wheeler dealer into a docile party regular in about as much time as it takes to say "William Scranton." The Republican convention will commence in San Francisco in mid-July and a roseterous imbroglio, even by Democratic Party standards, appears imminent...
...year's best animal photographs and the best substitute for a safari he is likely to find anywhere. Animals in Africa brings its lens to bear on all manner of African fauna, from elephants lumbering through the bush with ears spread like spinnakers to a striped chameleon inching its way into the center of a hibiscus flower. Animal Worlds, with photographs by Ylla, Fritz Goro, Eliot Porter and others, pursues fish, bird, insect and animal life from the tropics to the Arctic, with a text that makes their various worlds admirably clear...
Romantic theory and practice glorified individual feeling and self-expression. Keats rejected what he called this "Wordsworthian egotistical sublime." Instead he sought to be a "chameleon poet," who is submerged in his subject through "empathy"-the projecting of one's self into the feelings of others, even such slight creatures as sparrows scrabbling for crumbs in the street, or a field mouse peeping out of a field's withered grass. "Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated," he wrote to Sister Fanny, "the energies displayed in it are fine. . . This is the very...