Word: opportunisme
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Background of an Opportunist. Of the art of politics John Lewis is a master. No one -except himself- has ever beaten him. Now his switch back into A.F. of L., like his revolt from it in 1935, could be explained in one word: opportunism.
Opportunism had paid dividends in 1940 when, by playing Germany's game, they had taken the long disputed province of Transylvania from Rumania. Germany bought their crops and paid for them. The collapse of Yugoslavia further .strengthened Hungary. Magyar counts strode haughtily along the Danube confident that Budapest would...
Eliot, but seems hardly aware of the dangers a democracy incurs which too readily rejects its skeptics and suspects its individualists. Alfred Kazin's On Native Grounds ($3.75) recreates, enthusiastically, the climate of U.S. letters from the 19th Century to the present but loses, thanks to its enthusiasm, an...
In a war supposedly being fought for liberty, justice and freedom, Darlan posed a knotty question for the Allies: How far can a policy of military opportunism be allowed to go without sound political planning?
Vichy's Admiral Jean François Darlan, the little officer with the big opportunism, returned last week from an inspection tour of Casablanca and Dakar, to which, said a Vichy spokesman, "circumstances give very special importance." Admiral Darlan professed himself satisfied with what he saw. Vichy's...