Word: chameleonic
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...Labeling Jack Kennedy a "political chameleon," the militant, outsized (membership: 23,000) Warehousemen's Union issued a call for the support of Richard Nixon, "the lesser evil...
Nixon, claims Schlesinger, is an "other-directed" personality, a "chameleon" with no concrete political philosophy of his own. And his political strength lies precisely in his lack of viewpoint. As examples, Schlesinger cites Nixon's attitudes toward McCarthy, "eggheads," Benson, and "growthmanship...
...LASIK ROIT-SCHWANTZ (311 pp.)-llya Ehrenburq-Polyg/ot Library ($5.95). llya Ehrenburg has spent half a lifetime as court jester to a regime with no sense of humor. In the Communist world, few have rivaled Ehrenburg's talent as a journalist-propagandist, but before he donned the chameleon motley of Soviet apologist-in-chief, he had a better story to tell. That story, partly his own. is embedded in an almost unknown novel, unpublished in the Soviet Union, called The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, which Ehrenburg wrote in 1927 when he had taken a leave of absence...
...fact, on trial. Never before, said Douglas, "has a federal executive agency attempted, over the objections of the accused, to force him through a hearing to determine whether he has violated a federal law." The concept of due process approved by the majority, said he, was "whimsical" and "chameleon-like...
Wystan Hugh Auden is a chameleon among modern poets. He has moved from Marxism to Anglo-Catholicism, changed with startling ease from the gay garb of a tart poetaster to the grave robes of the searcher for ultimate truth. He often goes back over his poems and revises them to conform with his new sentiments. From some of his work, as his thinking turned increasingly conservative, he dropped scathing references to dons, capitalists and churchmen-for instance these lines written...