Word: machiavellianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read with interest Monday's article entitled "The Harbus News-How to Make Enemies and $5000." Mr. Goldhaber, the author, has done an outstanding job in selling CRIMSONS, but has missed the mark in his interpretation of our interpersonal relationships. We are not, as he portrays us, Machiavellian hatche-tmen. Instead, we are entrepreneurs experiencing the traditional operational and organizational problems of running The HarBus...
...national and diplomatic boundaries, no blessing to the men of power throughout the world. No man more clearly understood Machiavelli's aphorism that "the manner in which man lives is so different from the manner in which he ought to live," and no man then proceeded to such un-Machiavellian conclusions...
James A. Farley, then Chairman of the Democratic National Committee: He "neither drinks nor smokes, but chews gum." In New York, "some regard him as 'honest,' others as a politician of Machiavellian subtlety. The correct estimate of him is probably somewhere about midway between these two extremes...