Word: machiavellians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would control) without reference to Awolowo, in whose territory it sits. Lyttelton gave his blessing to the idea of a Nigerian D.C., and the result was that Dr. Zik suddenly proclaimed himself an "I-Like-Lyttelton" man. Awolowo's reaction was to blast the burly Tory as "a Machiavellian divider and ruler," and to threaten to pull Yoru-baland out of the federation...
...hand, we have "Secretary Dulles as the champion of a moral order in politics" [TIME, Sept. 28] ; on the other, we have the British, "soaked in the politics of expediency . . . working behind the scenes trying to unseat" this noble figure . . . Should we laugh at this picture of our Machiavellian activities or cry, knowing that for the aggressors every war has been undertaken as a moral crusade? . . . If I knew I were to be the victim of aggression, I would prefer that my aggressor was prompted by honest-to-goodness motives of rape and plunder...
...that John Foster Dulles of materialistic America is championing the cause of moral and spiritual principles, whereas Jawaharlal Nehru of spiritual India is advocating the adoption of political expedience in the realm of international politics. Can it be that India has degenerated spiritually so low as to copy the Machiavellian practices of the Western nations? . . . No one can be too proud of the role that Nehru has played in the struggle between Democracy and Communism...
...opera bouffe, the novel is first-rate. Tereso swaggers in appropriate blockhead style; Fausta's romances, high & low, are drawn with Moravia's usual skill for capturing the flavors of sensuality; Perro is a neat reincarnation of the Machiavellian villain. As satire, the book fails. The true satirist's fierce involvement seems to be missing. Stendhal, despite his air of urbane weariness, kept scoring points against Bourbonism. Moravia seems to write from no particular point of view...
...says the hero of Devil's Advocate, looking back almost 40 years, the U.S. elected to the Presidency a man "whose twisted mind stands out against the black background of history like a conflagration." By his "Machiavellian villainy," the workers were induced to sell their birthright of freedom for a mess of security, the farmers were bribed with subsidies into fatted acquiescence, the middle class was almost obliterated...