Word: machiavellianism
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...Some of the news in the book is not new. Mao's womanizing, gourmandizing and peculiar personal habits?his aversion to bathing and teeth brushing, for instance?surfaced in the entertaining 1994 memoir by his physician Li Zhisui. Evidence of Mao's Machiavellian ruthlessness has been seeping out of China for years. Journalist Jasper Becker reported in his 1996 book Hungry Ghosts that China's granaries were bulging during the 1958-61 famine, the worst in history...
...inner city the way that London does. But after gaining power, that is exactly what Billström did. [The test period will begin next year.] Apparently, a politician can promise a certain amount of things but break those promises if the election outcome is good. That's too Machiavellian for my taste. Christian Westling Stockholm Trauma Clinic I was appalled by the grisly realities described in Aparisim Ghosh's harrowing account of a day in the emergency room at Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital [May 16]. Conditions couldn't be worse for the medical staff and the unfortunate victims...
...most Machiavellian view of last week's events, however, opposition intransigence may ultimately prove to be exactly what Marcos wanted all along. Said a Western diplomat: "Marcos acts in a very tactical way to almost everything, and it is conceivable that his idea in calling the elections was to test a number of things. If the elections are blocked because they are declared unconstitutional, for example, he can say that he tried and he can blame it on those nasty oppositionists...
Below all, Seagrave's bright irreverence in portraying Sun Yat-sen as a character from opera bouffe and Chiang as an "ill-tempered bravo" almost contradicts the charges of Machiavellian villainy he wishes to press. The Soong Dynasty brings much pungent material to light; in the end, however, it works less well as an argument with history than as a crackling, made-for-TV story unraveled with fluency and flair. --By Pico Iyer
Keough denied a widely held belief that the company had brought out new Coke as part of a deliberate, Machiavellian plot to create support for the older product. Said he: "Some critics will say Coca-Cola has made a marketing mistake. Some cynics say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is, we're not that dumb, and we're not that smart...