Word: opportunist
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...ardent defender of the repression that began on Dec. 13. Is he a patriot who truly believes the crackdown will save his country from chaos? An idealist turned pragmatist who hopes to preserve some of the reforms won before the declaration of martial law? Or is he just an opportunist enjoying his place at the fulcrum of power? Those who know him well agree upon only one point: Rakowski is a survivor...
...common cold's theatricality is so obvious that one can classify the styles of cold suffering by labeling the roles that get played: the hero (who insists on coming to work), the martyr (who cannot afford not to come to work), the opportunist (who would not dream of staying away from work for less than a week). To specialists like Robert H. Waldman, chairman of the department of medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, the cold as psychological event seems almost as clear. Waldman points out that the cold allows the typical adult to retreat from...
...start he is sleazily pthetic, a bundle of unchannelled energy expressed in random, hoarsely inexpressive shouts and struts. When not center stage he is erect and twitching against a back wall, his eyes glazed as if his brains were being barbecued. He is no Mahiavelli, but a quick-witted opportunist handed a turkey and a shotgun. Recongnizing this, his frame swells with cookiness. It's gestures become honed, and his voice pierces effortlessly through the fog of general ignorance. He's pure enough at first to earn the epithet "honest": "Beware, my lord, of jealousy," he says firmly, and villain...
...last agonies of the Nixon regime, liberals grumble that he protected his President too zealously against the revelations of Watergate. Some liberals and conservatives are dismayed by Haig's alleged involvement in wiretapping while in the Nixon White House, and other conservatives consider Haig to be an opportunist...
Titus Andronicus (William Hutt), doughtiest general of the Roman state, has come home with his Gothic captives. Turning aside the proffered imperial crown, he bestows it on Saturninus (Jack Wetherall), an odious opportunist though royal in lineage. Titus prefigures Lear's foolish error in dividing up his kingdom...