Word: machiavellianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he does not project a forthright charismatic image, Bok is quietly appealing and knows how to play the political games without being Machiavellian about...
...iconic, reverential frontality. Only at the very end does he reassert himself. We see Louis at last in private. Suddenly the film is thrown back on the chaos of its own beginning. We see the spectre of Louis's future in the dying Mazarin. We see that even the Machiavellian Louis cannot escape the clutches of his own deceit. That his philosophy is made feasible only by what it ignores. That behind the facade there is, indeed, another facade...
...blacks are too downtrodden to grasp political rebellion, so he invites them to participate in something they can appreciate: a bank robbery. He baits a strapping porter named José Dolores (Evaristo Marquez) to anger, then decides he is the man to lead the black bandits. With Machiavellian guile he hides the bandits in a jungle village, reveals their location to the Portuguese military, then watches with smug satisfaction as self-preservation grows into open rebellion. The Portuguese are thrown out, Dolores' army is persuaded to lay down its arms in favor of a white-colonist government, and Walker...
...inducted. By threatening to go through the entire list, they scare men who are probably safe this year into getting "redundant" deferments. Their control has not been reduced to one year. By making irresponsible estimates of manpower needs, they can extend their control indefinitely. This is not to attribute Machiavellian motives to all draft boards-just most...
...Machiavellian Device. First undertaken as long ago as 3800 B.C. by the Babylonians and in 3000 B.C. by the Chinese, head counts have often proved unpopular because of their association in the public mind with taxation and conscription. When a national census was proposed to the British Parliament some 200 years ago, an enraged M.P. described the project as "totally subversive to the last remains of English liberty." Only in 1801 was the idea reluctantly accepted. The notion that the census is a Machiavellian device designed to enhance the power of the government is still strong; Machiavelli did, in fact...