Word: machiavellianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States will always need purchasers for her exports, Dr. Sprague does not feel that she can withdraw from the international scene. "We are unsuccessful participants, however, in international affairs," he said, "because of three factors: our suspicion that the other fellow is going to put over some Machiavellian trick on us; our Senate cannot move deftly and rapidly enough to keep pace with the international parleys and agreements; and our fear for sovereign rights...
...Russian named Sergei Nilus, the Protocols are supposed to be a verbatim account of a secret meeting of Jewish Elders. Composed of 24 separate Protocols, the work is variously intended in various editions to represent a speech by one Elder, or the successive speeches of 24 Elders. Machiavellian, wily and devious are the methods by which the Elders plan to gain their world hegemony. According to the Protocols "he who would rule must have recourse to cunningness and hypocrisy." Biding their time while they contrive the collapse of Christian society, the Elders plan to: "Corrupt the young generation by subversive...
...identifies himself as a life-long balletomaniac who studied dancing to understand its difficulties. He quarreled with Diaghilev over his last ballets and Diaghilev never forgave him. He describes Diaghilev's weaknesses: his sexual abnormalities, his greed for sweets, his crazy superstitions, his countless inconsistencies. But in the Machiavellian persecutor which Madame Nijinsky portrays Critic Haskell takes no stock. An incompetent dancer, she schemed her way into the troupe-a fact which Mme Nijinsky admits herself. His fellow dancers always . . thought Nijinsky unbalanced. Diaghilev kept him from the world because as a sheltered, brooding introvert he did his finest...
...seems certain that the decision will raise a storm of protest in England, and if Rainbow keeps the Cup, the course of future challenges maybe doubtful. The rigid attention to rules and the disallowing of the protest because the flag was not raised "soon enough," may seen machiavellian to some, but to many it will seem, while regrettable, a reason for relaxation of the rules of yachting, not enough to spoil "the sport of kings," but merely so as to relax such minor and apparently troublesome points...
...implying that it is a temporary device, while yet in the same breath asking to increase the public debt by six billion dollars during the current year. If he actually does regard the device as a temporary one, then his astuteness is only unconscious, not Machiavellian, and in this case, it is entirely possible that he means to defiate purchasing power some day by balancing the budget at the expense of a future prosperity. But if he, if Professor Warren, are as discerning as I think they are, they must realize that there is only one reason why the national...