Word: machiavellis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside Hollywood. Anita Colby's current title is Feminine Director of the Selznick Studios.* But the designation is flagrantly inadequate. The Face, who has a brain to match, has been better described as one part Hedy Lamarr, one part Machiavelli, one part Sammy Click...
...change an individual question, or did it portend a shake-up in the Soviet Government? As a result of the war, the Red Army could become a much greater political power in the Soviet state. As a Defense Commissar, had Voroshilov aspired too far? Stalin, a close student of Machiavelli, dislikes ambition in his official family. Or did Russia need a younger, more progressive man than Voroshilov to head its enormously developed war commissariat...
...latest book, a biography of Hillman's great needle trades rival, Dave Dubinsky, Stolberg calls Hillman "a typical ham Machiavelli who almost always outsmarts himself...
...book of history, Britain and the U.S. did not cotton to this last suggestion-that Stalin was just in there doing his bit for all hands, like a latter-day saint. Whatever they think of their own foreign policy, most Britons and Americans have great respect for the modern Machiavelli...
...picked up the cult of superman from Nietzsche, the creed of power from Machiavelli. Pareto taught him to despise democracy, Marx to scorn capitalism, and Sorel the myth of universal violence. He courted martyrdom, spat at priests, lived promiscuously with at least half a dozen women. Out of Marxism, jingoism and obscurantism he compounded a new thing called Fascism and imposed it on a nation weakened by war and frightened by social unrest...