Word: opportunisme
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But the text of Cardinal Cushing's prepared remarks had a wisdom, at once comendable and too-limited, which opened the way to events for our more subtle senusement. His remarks were commendable (if one who known infinitely less about Boston may be allowed to comment) in that they restored...
Mills avoids any discussion of right-wing student political activity on the (double) standard grounds that (1) it doesn't exist and (2) it is initiated from the adult conservative community. Another article, though, reports on "The Right at NSA." This well-written piece on how the little conservatives operated...
Although the atmosphere was hardly conducive to careful thought, the Council wisely managed to stop the movement. The amendment might have solved the Phillips problems, but in the long run it would have seriously limited the Council. Persons interested in the Council Presidency invariably have political interests. The restriction might...
In the case of Nixon, he said, there is a distinction to be made between opportunism and being other-directed. Both he and Kennedy are "fiercely ambitious," though their ambition has different sources. Nixon is very much in the Horatio Alger tradition of the poor boy making good, while Kennedy...
The problem, says Teacher Goldstein, is important for men as well as women, because society as a whole is growing more and more feminine. If the 19th century U.S. was a masculine society of private enterprisers and empire builders -egotists to whom opportunism and ornery behavior were no sin-the...