Word: machiavelli
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...governor's chair, is no calamity, for it means the defeat of Thomas E. Dewey, the evil influence in the Republican Party for ten years. Ives was Dewey's hand-picked candidate. The foundering of the Dewey machine opens up the healthy prospect that the Pawling Machiavelli will not come to the 1956 Republican Convention with New York's 96 delegates in his pocket for the fourth time...
Pinay got tougher: "You exactly predicted our majority yesterday . . . But you omitted yourself-the influence you could have had in the vote if you had worked for ratification . . . The Soviet Machiavelli desires a government which would ruin the [Atlantic] alliance in pretending to defend it. Such a government, I hasten to add, is not yours. But if it existed, it would do what you are doing...
This half, taught by Elliott and now to be given in the spring, deals with political theory, and includes a wide range of study in such political philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Machiavelli...
...roomful of banqueters only to discover that her lovechild, Gennaro, is among them. Unappreciatively, Gennaro stabs her, to the accompaniment of Latin plain chant, as monks arrive with coffins for all. This imaginary incident made such a good spectacle that Donizetti wrote an opera around it. *The Florentine Ambassador Machiavelli met Cesare in the course of diplomatic business, was so taken with Cesare's forthright approach that he used him as an exemplar of the successful ruler in the famed treatise, The Prince...
Augie became nurse and companion to William Einhorn, a lecherous, conniving old paralytic. To Augie, Einhorn was in a class with Caesar, Machiavelli and Ulysses ("I'm not kidding when I enter Einhorn in this eminent list"). Einhorn's idea of buying his wife a new living-room suite was to burn the old one and pay with the insurance money. Before being ruined in the Crash, he gave Augie a damaged, set of the Harvard Classics and assured him that Augie himself could determine what he would become...