Word: machiavelli
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...doesn't matter out there if you've read Machiavelli," Ujifusa adds...
...core of the named, achieving a profound fusion, becoming inextricable. Certain names become so incorporated with the acts or traits or destinies of their owners that they pop into the popular vocabulary as common nouns and adjectives: Cain, Jeremiah, Job (the Bible is a storehouse of such), Machiavelli, De Sade, McCarthy. The same peculiar joining of character and name occurs all the time, even in the fictive world. Romeo is as inseparable from the youth so named as he was from Juliet, and no actress could credibly play the role of Desdemona if the character's name were changed...
...instantaneous communication via space satellite, the art of diplomacy is still practiced, as it was in the days of Talleyrand or Machiavelli, face to face, man to man. That is why Cyrus Roberts Vance, 61, the cool, gray professional who serves as the U.S.'s 56th Secretary of State, last week found himself tossing and twisting on a blue and green sofa bed some 35,000 ft. over the Sahara desert. He was on the move once again, in a white and blue Air Force Boeing 707 outfitted like a flying foreign ministry, with its own cryptographic machines...
When is it permissible to tell a lie? Never, according to Augustine and Kant. Machiavelli approved lying for princes, Nietzsche for the exceptional hero-the Superman. Most other philosophers, and ordinary folk, are less certain, allowing some lies, but not others. After some 2,500 years of moral speculation, says Philosopher Sissela Bok, mankind is still trying to work out ground rules for acceptable lying...
Garth mixes Machiavelli, McLuhan and Damon Runyon...