Word: opportunisme
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Gore Vidal's novels, plays and essays can be divided roughly into three areas of animosity. The first is the author's belief that Western civilization erred when it abandoned pagan humanism for the stern, heterosexual authority of the Judaeo-Christian patriarchy. See Julian, his 1964 novel about...
The Free Democrats, still reeling from charges of opportunism for precipitously abandoning Schmidt last September, now enjoy the support of only 3% or 4% of the voting public. That is short of the 5% necessary to assure representation in the Bundestag. The C.D.U.-C.S.U. coalition has dropped slightly, from 51...
It was precisely this cynicism that began to grip Stockman who, as a former peace activist at Michigan State and a John Anderson speech writer at Harvard graduate school, had very much taken the campus-politico route--when the bitter truth about Reaganomics became clear. This cynicism, and a powerful...
This pacifist faction within the church has drawn the ire of many conservative Catholic intellectuals (see box). "Some of the bishops are extremely cavalier," says Church Historian James Hitchcock of St. Louis University. "They seem to say there is no real problem with the Soviets. And some of them have...
Realist painting is now such an accepted fact of American art that one almost forgets how many of its best practitioners were once abstract painters, converted in midcareer. Philip Pearlstein, Sidney Tillim, Alfred Leslie, William Bailey: they all came, in one way or another, out of abstract expressionism, making the...