Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which begins with that old stock bit of scenery, the scrubbed cabin porch, convinces in the end that the genuine fabulist's art is involved. An old, blind Negro woman signs her land away for a federal project and is conned out of her money by a young opportunist of her own race. Is he the devil? The reader comes to think so and to share the dark fears of a superstitious old woman's spell-weaving mind...
...squash a running attack, the speed to put constant pressure on enemy passers Assistant Coach George Allen insists that Larry Morris (230 lbs.), Bill George (235 lbs.) and Joe Fortunato (225 lbs ) are the "three best linebackers in football." Pass defense? The Bears' opportunist secondary has intercepted 29 passes-tops in the N.F.L. "This is an attacking defense," says Allen, and the defending-champion Green Bay Packers know what he means. Fortnight ago the Bears recovered two fumbles, intercepted five passes, as Chicago trounced the Packers for the second time this season, 26-7. Moaned Packer Coach Vince Lombardi...
...stems largely from the feeling that, like Mme. Nhu, the Arizona Senator is "entertaining." Only "nonthinkers" would vote for Goldwater, says one typical student, and some collegians couldn't care less. Asks a Miami coed: "How can you give intelligent people a choice between Meatball Kennedy and Opportunist Goldwater...
...Wilderness. The delegates were even more relieved by Wilson's performance. Over the years, Harold Wilson, 47, has earned the reputation of a vain, slippery opportunist. Less than a year ago, one longtime colleague said: "I have never known such a brilliant or such an unloved man." After Hugh Gaitskell's death last January, Gaitskellites prayed that the party leadership would not go to "Little Harold," as they then called him. Most of the leading Laborites who are now in Wilson's "Shadow" Cabinet found it hard to vote for him in the party election last February...
...Strindberg's youth: the duality of his evaluation of women, which led him alternatively from violent, Nietszchean disgust of females to a submissive craving for maternal warmth and comfort, receives a bit of the attention it will enjoy more fully in later plays. The Strindberg hatred for the feminist opportunist pervades The Link, but an appreciation of the woman as mother is not totally absent...