Word: machiavellianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allure as well as her influence. "She was a lovely, luminously intelligent American," he writes at the apogee of his infatuation. But in the end he resists her charms and preserves his objectivity. "Her piety was sincere enough," he concludes. "Yet it masked a towering ambition and a Machiavellian talent for intrigue. Out of a life lived with a clear conscience, and with the best of intentions, the desired good had somehow failed to come...
...liberal realists" do not have a monopoly of moral concern. Conservatives can get themselves worked up wtih moral indignation over Katanga's right to self-determination and, as a matter of fact, over voting rights, as can Roberts. To portray, as he does, conservatives as being machiavellian politicians while all liberals are "realistic idealists" is nothing short of irresponsble...
...Powers. Most historians have pictured Hitler as a juggernaut. In Taylor's account, he is peculiarly passive.* "He did not seize power," writes Taylor. "He waited for it to be thrust upon him." Like other statesmen of his time, he was defending the national interest in a cleanly Machiavellian way. He simply wanted to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and restore Germany as a great power. Minimizing the fact that Hitler committed his plans for conquest to paper as early as 1925 in Mein Kampf, Taylor claims that the dictator did not really want war. His threats were "daydreaming...
President Sékou Touré of West Africa's overheated little coastal country of Guinea declared last week that "Marxist-Leninists with Machiavellian plans" had tried to overthrow his government and set off a "Marxist revolution in Africa...
...doing all the talking." wrote Austin Wheatley in the Detroit News, "will be Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle. The New Frontiersman will run into a very old Frontiersman. He probably knows what he's up against-a man aloof, lonely, enigmatic, humorless, sometimes Machiavellian, sarcastic, self-confident, courageous, irritating, pigheaded, visionary, indispensable and a hard bargainer." Frank Conniff, national editor of Hearst papers, suggested more succinctly that Kennedy might find the old general "teeth-breaking." In the breast of the Times's James Reston lurked the hope that the U.S. President might learn a trick...