Word: machiavellianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eulogies to King and his non-violence are more distressing than soothing, for they reveal whites embracing the style, simplicity, and emotional sincerity of King's crusades, not their content. The abrupt white rediscovery of reverence for King is corrupted by a Machiavellian awareness of its repressive uses...
...Machiavellian (announcing first changes in mixer policy on the first day of final exams) and high-handed manner in which the Dean and Masters have handled this alleged problem is enough to raise any undergraduate's anger. After dictating what had to be done, Dean Watson, graciously (or should I say benevolently?) stated that HUC "should consider the whole isue of mixers." What is there left to consider for HUC except the practical problems of the implementation of the Dean's and Master's Dictat? This is the perfect example of HUC being forced to act as the Administration...
...have to decide on the moral choice to make the move that will keep you psychologically on the ball to handle things. This may sound very Machiavellian, but I think it's practical politics. If they abolished all student deferments, the revolution would come tomorrow...
Hochhuth portrayed Pius XII as a Machiavellian "inverted mystic" who hoped to use Hitler to save Europe from Communism. The Churchill of Soldiers seems to be an equally callous caricature. According to the play, Britain's wartime Prime Minister (played by Otto Hasse) was a tragic figure who authorized immoral acts in hopes of saving his nation. Among them was the murder of Sikorski, a stiff-necked patriot who infuriated Stalin first by demanding the postwar return of Polish territories annexed by Russia, then by calling for an investigation of the Katyn massacre of 4,253 Polish military prisoners...
Then, too, Winter and Evers played a Machiavellian game that backfired...