Word: opportunistic
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Pusey never liked outsiders interfering in the University. He campaigned against McCarthy--who later attacked several Harvard professors--back when they both lived in Wisconsin, and Pusey calls the man an "abomination," adding that he was "just amoral, an opportunist...
...last week when Junejo saw that Independence Day celebrations planned for Lahore might lead to violence and an embarrassingly poor turnout for the Muslim League. In a nationally televised speech, he canceled the league's rally in Lahore and asked the opposition to cooperate. Said he: "There are certain opportunist politicians who want to use Independence Day for their own political objectives...
...snarl. "Send them a message," he said, in that thick, dark voice. Half an inch beneath the surface of his words there ran an undercurrent of menace. There was a backwoods defiance in the fire that lit George Wallace up. There was also something, more than something, of the opportunist and the demagogue...
...opportunist in Wallace that eventually made his peace with Alabama blacks, and even won their crucial support in his last campaign? Or was it a matter of amazing grace? If slavery and all that followed were the American original sin, George Wallace ended his journey in the vicinity of redemption. It was a strange and moving American spectacle to see Wallace a few weeks ago receive an honorary degree from Tuskegee Institute, the blacks in the audience applauding him with a forgiving warmth. Wounded, in his wheelchair, subdued and sweet, he blew them kisses...
...Mexican culture. Fuentes' first novel "Where the Air is Clear" (1958) is a mythical history of Mexico City. In this novel Mexico's mythical past of rituals and sacrifices appears parallel with the present. In "The Death of Artemio Cruz" (1962), the story is narrated by the revolutionary turned opportunist of the book's title as he lies on his death bed. The story is told by multiple voices with a constantly shifting narrative and chronological viewpoint...