Word: machiavellianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MANDRAGOLA. In Director Alberto Lattuada's romp through a Renaissance classic, some bold types carry out Machiavellian plots against the virtue of a Florentine beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino...
Some think this vision of purpose is insidious, while others consider it noble, or maybe Machiavellian, or perhaps altruistic, or impossible, or sensible. It may be all these things or none of them, but whatever it is, it seems to have worked well--so well, in fact, that when one thinks of graduate schools of education, Harvard's is usually the first to come to mind...
...Yankee engineer named Eli Whitney refused to accede to the European notion that even a rifle was an individual creation that could only be handcrafted by a skilled gunsmith. Later, in its relations with the rest of the world, the ever more powerful U.S. had to abandon both the Machiavellian tradition of old Europe and its own tradition of isolation; only a nation uninhibited by conventional thinking could have conceived the Marshall Plan...
...appeasing totalitarian regimes. I congratulate you on your thoughtful Essay, in which you distinguish between those who sincerely seek the right to dissent from Government policies and those lawless zealots who, by their "monopoly on humanitarianism," arbitrarily define God-given morality and seek to attain their ends by Machiavellian civil disobedience...
...anti-intellectualism, "On War as a Permanent Condition" [Sept. 24] made me rueful. You apologize for our Viet Nam presence by arguing that our interests, political, economic and moral, are served by this engagement. Eventually, we shall see that "freedom" was a cloud under which we concealed a Machiavellian dominance of the economic-political over the moral...