Word: machiavellianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though drubbed by reviewers for their oversimplified and sometimes silly Machiavellian advice, the two books have already sold half a million copies, are currently being offered by six book clubs and are bringing their surprised authors renown as the twin Dale Carnegies of the cynical...
...seven years Henry Kissinger has defied all the laws of political gravity. Employing his charms, his intellect and his considerable Machiavellian skills, he has survived every governmental crisis and triumph while playing a principal role in most of them. He thrives on palace intrigue. This helps drive his critics up the wall as they look at him now and realize that his long journey through the upper reaches of power is one of the most fascinating of our time...
...novels, perhaps A Gentle Creature. Both of them were sufferers--she the docile one, submissive to his rages and passions, he more volatile, constantly punishing himself for his weaknesses and indulgences. But in her docility she exerted a strange power over him. It wasn't a Machiavellian strategy she used, more an instinct that to directly confront his gambling and jealousy would be fruitless. She did not discourage his compulsive behavior, and in its repercussions--guilt and remorse--he was bound that much more closely...
...sophisticated American and especially Harvard theorists in international politics had laid to rest over a generation ago. Krasner no doubt has some very pressing reasons--political and ideological--for wanting to refossilize out thinking in this crucial area of international politics. It seems a new season for opportunists, thoroughly Machiavellian, has alas already commenced. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...Nessen compounded the error by declaring that the President stood by his statement. Kissinger finally managed to make the remark ap pear to be ambiguous, as if the President had some remote Machiavellian purpose in saying it. That is diplomatically acceptable...