Word: opportunistic
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...central problem of the thirties: the failure of most people to distinguish between the real, the crucial German problem, and the inflated (or otherwise distorted) picture of it. No doubt Hitler's demands were unreasonable; but they reflected the interests of a strong, legitimate Power, run by an arch-opportunist dealing with short-sighted...
Died. Major Salah Salem, 42, former Egyptian Minister of National Guidance and one of the original members of the officers' junta that overthrew King Farouk, a flamboyant opportunist who won international notoriety in 1953 as "the Dancing Major" when he was photographed dancing in his undershorts with Sudanese tribesmen during an abortive effort to persuade the Sudan to unite with Egypt; of a kidney ailment; in Cairo...
Besides the soldiers and their women, The Centurions features two journalists, one hard-boiled and opportunist, the other more dreamy and appealing. It doesn't require too much imagination to realize that Larteguy (who writes for Paris-Presse) has there-by introduced himself explicitly into his novel. Evidently, he considers his own personality so complex that he must employ two characters to do justice to it. This would be offensive, except that one finishes The Centurions feeling that its author has only been playing with himself all the way along anyway...
...because, he says, low living standards "depress me." Adds Amendola: "We must acknowledge the diversity of positions of the U.S.S.R. and China, of Yugoslavia and Cuba, of Italy and France" (whose Communist Party, along with Czechoslovakia's, has denounced the Italian party as "revisionist"' and "opportunist"). Such diversity, says Amendola, is ' an inevitable consequence of the Communist advance in the world...
...some, Amendola is not a liberalizer but merely an opportunist who seeks to oust Togliatti. "He wants neither a Stalinist nor an anti-Stalinist party." says one critic. "He wants a nice, homemade Communism that knows how to play the game in the Italian manner-that is, with a card up its sleeve...