Word: machiavelli
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MANDRAGOLA. Machiavelli's ribald Renaissance classic about a Florentine lady's virtue, directed with plenty of low period humor by Italy's Alberto Lattuada and played as high comedy by Rosanna Schiaffino and a sporty cast...
...with large, warm rocks on her stomach, then is marinated in giant tubfuls of broth, and finally is sealed, screeching, into a body-length hot-water bag to test another old wives' tale. More than 400 years after it was penned by the cynical Renaissance moralist, Niccolo Machiavelli, this ribald comedy classic still looks exuberantly out of bounds...
...Machiavelli in The Prince
...comes to his relationship with the business community, Lyndon Johnson does not believe that it is necessary to do without either-but he is certainly acting like a man who knows where the choice lies. Last week, after an intricate and mystery-shrouded confrontation that would do honor to Machiavelli, Johnson forced the $2.9 billion aluminum industry to bow to Government pressure and retreat from a price increase. It was the first such backdown since the steel industry's retreat before John Kennedy's wrath in 1962, and it marked the beginning of a new phase in Johnson...
...favorite pastime is reading, which he selects for "serviceable wisdom." Two weeks ago, when he and Brother Jim took their families to the Shenandoah Mountains to view the autumn foliage, Bill took along Robert E. Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, Clinton Rossiter's The American Presidency, Machiavelli's The Prince, and a few others...