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Medicis in Action. The Renaissance, as he lays it out, "first of all ... took money-smelly bourgeois money"; and he growls for good measure a byword of the 19th century materialism that shaped his attitude: "Money is the root of all civilization." Following this economic predilection, Durant gives the clearest description in any one-volume history of the age of the fiscal and political hotbed of Florence, where those hardy perennials, the Medici, first reared their brilliant heads. Item: he recites with delight how the fiscal-minded Florentines won a war against Venice and Naples by calling in so many...
Citation: "Skilled novelist of manners, an ironist who inspires laughter with a sting, he has made an imaginary character a byword on countless lips...
...neither the dangerous rabble-rouser nor neo-nationalist he seems, but a savior of Germany. They excuse his violent speeches. Often, they say, he will descend from a rostrum shaking his head and murmuring, "Well, I believe that I was again somewhat too sharp." His byword, they insist, is not nein, but ja, aber so nicht-which means "yes, but not this way." Schumacher himself professes to be hurt that the West misunderstands him so. Can't they see that his party is pure, and that the big Ruhr industrialists who once helped Hitler are the men behind Adenauer...
...formed, and a committee of the twelve NATO countries ("The Twelve Apostles") was set up to assist them. The Wise Men and the Apostles went to work to determine what kind of NATO force could be made out of what the NATO countries could actually contribute. With that, the byword of NATO and SHAPE changed from "must do" to "make...
...military biographer, Captain Harry Butcher, says that it was a byword among American officers that 'Eisenhower is the best general the British have.' Eisenhower got this reputation by acceding to a British war plan calculated to allow the British commander, Field Marshal Montgomery, to achieve all of the decisive breakthroughs ... It was he who called off General Bradley's victorious armies when they were across the Elbe, thus reserving for Russia the enormous political advantage of capturing Berlin . . . Eisenhower it was, also, who turned General Patton from his unchecked advance upon Prague and let the capital...