Word: machiavellianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MORE political epitaphs have been written for Socialist Francois Maurice Mitterrand in France than for Richard Nixon in the U.S. His current allies, the Communists, once dismissed him as a fascist. The Gaullists have described him as a covert Bolshevik, a shifty opportunist and a Machiavellian operator...
While Allen would appear to have a Machiavellian streak, and Landry tends to sound as if he were Billy Graham with a game plan, Shula is a positive thinker in the mode of a Norman Vincent Peale. He is the son of a Hungarian immigrant who came to Painesville, Ohio, in 1910. As Don remembers, "I always wanted to do anything to the best of my ability. I always got upset, even in grade school, whenever I thought anybody was giving less than full effort." His shyness almost kept him out of the game he loves. He missed the opening...
...overlook the fact that there will be people on the receiving end of such RPVs who will be engaged in the act of dying, not loving, seems to fit the truly Machiavellian if not evil mentalities of those who seek to salve the conscience of the military-and all of us-by such distortions of reality...
...They never had it so good. Every day the Viet Nam War is prolonged, we exhaust more of pur resources; and every day it goes on with its murderous bombings, we add to the disdain in which we are held by practically all the nations of the world. No Machiavellian Communist could have designed a better trap to ruin us. And the dilemma will not end with the coming of peace, for we will be obliged to provide billions of dollars for the restoration of a war-torn land...
...civil rights league.) At the same time, the Gambinos had a "contract" out on Gallo-although it is not clear yet who finally killed him. (A contract, which may or may not involve a fee, is a boss's official sanction for an execution.) Now, to complete a Machiavellian circle, the Gambinos are supplying both the Colombos and the Gallos with new guns and ammunition to escalate their...