Word: opportunist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subtitled "A Fictitious Reminiscence," the book obviously is not all fiction. Europeans will easily recognize Dario as the high-ranking Fascist journalist, Curzio Malaparte, and so will U.S. readers of Malaparte's curious autobiography Kaputt (TIME, Nov. 11). As the profile of a likable opportunist, the novel is convincing, but as a study in the dialectics of Fascism it probes no deeper than the good manners...
...years, John L. Lewis had played one role-the massive, threatening, bully-boy champion of his miners. Last fall he was challenged, fined, and-the U.S. thought-stripped of his power to strike. But the great opportunist, the master of vendetta, was only temporarily thwarted, not subdued...
...Coleman's regulars refused to be drawn afield. They belabored Bob LaFollette as a turncoat, renegade and opportunist. Glowing happily with exertion, they voted to back ex-Marine Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, 35, for the Senate seat. For good measure, they also turned thumbs down on brindled Governor Walter S. Goodland, 83, whose crotchety independence has irked many an old-line party man. For his place, they endorsed gladhanding, grey-haired Delbert J. Kenny, a former state Legion commander...
...looked back on the adversities of his childhood, he found them too painful to disclose even to his wife: not until he was almost 40 could he bear to relive them, and to cast them from him into David Copperfield. Father John Dickens, the original of Micawber-"a jovial opportunist . . . who borrowed from anyone foolish enough to make him cash advances"-took twelve-year-old Charles away from school, put him to work at a shilling a day in a blacking factory. Father and mother Dickens spent this period in a debtors' prison, where they were relatively comfortable...
...their drive for control of labor unions, they rely on five basic types of workers: 1) the Party member (secret or avowed); 2) the fellow traveler (not a CP member but an ardent follower); 3) the sympathizer (in essential agreement with the Communist line); 4) the opportunist (who makes alliance with the militant CPers); 5) the liberal (fundamentally in disagreement but approving immediate demands...