Word: opportunisme
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In his 21 years as a Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, Teddy Kennedy has established himself as a pleasant young man who listens respectfully to his elders. But last week Teddy talked back-and, though he narrowly lost his first major legislative test, he handled himself with a skill and a...
• JOBS. All over the South Negroes are now holding jobs once reserved for whites only. In some cities Negroes are working as clerks in variety and department stores; some banks have hired Negro tellers "and put them in the very front window." Much of this, of course, is mere...
One rule is to go around the country making speeches-preferably "nonpolitical" and therefore noncontroversial. Since Jan. 1, Romney has had seven such engagements, including two Lincoln Day addresses. The subject: "moral principles." For example, he told a newspaper association meeting that "our drift away from principle, too often encouraged...
After a 17-year war on personal poverty and the English language, Mickey Spillane now seems to be elevating his sights. The new targets of opportunism: cold war conspiracy and the bereaved readership of the late Ian Fleming.
One cause of the growing shortage of college teachers is a "crisis in values" that has infected a generation of young scholars with "the crassest opportunism in grantsmanship, job hopping and wheeling-dealing." So writes John W. Gardner, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in his...