Word: machiavellis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern Machlavelli. Franco emerges as Machiavelli's most finished 20th Century disciple. He got what he wanted-if not when he wanted it, at least in time to stave off internal disaster: U.S. oil and wheat when the U.S. and its allies needed both; German weapons and aviation gasoline when Hitler had barely enough for his own forces. How did he do it? As Feis carefully shows, by threats, by false promises, by outright lies, by playing the hopes & fears of the democracies against those of Hitler, and always by beautifully timed dissimulation...
...average broiler? Well, Father Haydn's chick is absolutely enormous and interminably long-and the public loves to get good poundage for its money. It is primarily what is called a think-chick, and its little crop is crammed with quotations from Walter Pater, W. H. Auden, Machiavelli, Engels, and even Max Lerner...
Manhattan last week might be proud of its "three miles of Christmas trees" along Park Avenue, but that pagan procession of lights was dim and chill compared with the magnificence of the Nativity Plays which almost every Renaissance Italian witnessed. Machiavelli mentions one so elaborate that its preparation kept all Florence busy for six months...
...Enjoy the Papacy." On first sight, Florence does not seem to have changed much. Tourists buzz over Martinis at Leland's* and shiver in dutiful awe before the graves of Machiavelli and Galileo. Business is good and the city is well fed. But there are many different Florences. There is the Florence of only yesterday-of the anglicized local aristocracy which used to go fox hunting without foxes, mounted in pursuit of a butler who panted across the pine-plumed hillsides strewing a trail of paper scraps. That Florence is certainly gone...
...blame for Italy's being in history's junk yard? Italy's witty ex-Premier Francesco Nitti named a couple of safe scapegoats: Christopher Columbus and Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli, Nitti explained, had "made us Italians out as men who are always ready to lie," Columbus was an even bigger culprit: his "indiscretion," Nitti claimed, had "shifted the axis of the world to the West," and Italy had been off the beam ever since...