Word: machiavelli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long before Watergate confirmed the worst fears of his enemies, Nixon was a perfect model for caricature. Foes saw him as a rootless mutant, sui generis, combining McCarthy's feral atavism with Machiavelli's cunning intellect. Friends perceived him as a courageous champion of basic American values. They remain united in the belief that he suffered a martyr's fate at the hands of the liberal aristocracy whose reign he challenged. For years, Watergate gave the bashers the better of the argument...
Perhaps Mobuto believes he is faithfully following Machiavelli's advice to an effective Prince--that it is better to be feared than to be loved...
...capable of dwarfing even our ally Japan, but we rooted anyway. And of course, since Tiananmen Square, we have wondered what went so drastically wrong. How could any regime shoot unarmed citizens in its own capital, an action violative of a rule of governance so obvious that not even Machiavelli felt compelled to write it down...
...longer would a Harvard graduate, it was reasoned, earn his or her diploma without encountering the reasoning--if not the works--of thinkers such as Plato and Shakespeare, Newton and Picasso, Bolivar and Machiavelli...
...hostile charges. Seen for the first time, these ads can inspire strong but disturbingly vague emotional impressions: Dukakis is a terrible Governor; Bush wants to tear up Social Security; Dukakis believes anyone can check out of prison; the Bush campaign is run by overweight manipulators who put Machiavelli to shame...