Word: charlatan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youthful reputation as a scandalous womanizer (deserved) and as a financial charlatan (undeserved) haunted his career. All his life he was candid to the point of impudence and imprudence and maintained a totally un-Victorian intolerance of humbug and hypocrisy. His pen dripped venom. He once endowed an opponent with "the crabbed malice of a maundering witch." Justifying his casual inconsistency on an issue in Parliament, he bluntly said: "We came here for fame." When friends congratulated him on his first accession to the prime ministership, Disraeli said cynically: "Yes, I've climbed to the top of the greasy...
Courtial takes on Ferdinand as a "secretary" in a business that becomes the mecca for every meccano-minded nut in France. It is the world of popular mechanics fictionalized. Courtial himself is an idealist and charlatan, infatuated with the possibilities of lighter-than-air travel. For modest fees, he demonstrates balloon ascents to mobs of gawping yokels...
...comedy is set in plague-ridden London where a gentleman has fled the city and left his house in the care of his steward, Face (Robert Symonds). False Face teams up with a charlatan of alchemy named Subtle (O'Sullivan) and a trollop, Dol Common (Nancy Marchand). This trio of con artists gull the gullible - clerks, widows, fortune hunters such as Sir Epicure Mammon (George Voskovec), and hypocritical Puritans. As written by Jonson, the play has the shapely precision of a ballet, wittily danced to the themes of vanity, greed, cunning, lust and fraud. As directed by Jules Irving...
...good museum director must be a clever sleuth and a keen scholar, bold but tasteful, charlatan enough to fool his competitors, discreet in his dealings, a master charmer, a canny politician, greedy, and above all, always right in his purchases. Allowing for a bit of hyperbole, Sherman E. Lee of the Cleveland Museum of Art meets most elements of that prescription. Traveling 14,000 miles a year, he metaphorizes his annual buying foray into a military campaign: "One begins with strategy, continues with tactics, ends with responses to local situations." And, he might have added, measures his success-and ultimately...
...certain point," wrote Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in The Coming of the New Deal, "his mind seemed almost to break through a sonic barrier and transform itself so that hardheaded analysis passed imperceptibly into rhapsodic mysticism." A Presbyterian, he flirted with an exotic cult led by a White Russian charlatan, served as an acolyte in the Episcopal Church and bombarded Roosevelt with allegorically couched advice on foreign policy. And, despite his closeness to the land and his concern for those who live by it, even overcoming his early abhorrence of Communism, Wallace came to defend Stalin's brutal collectivization...