Word: machiavellis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...texts include such original documents as the Resolves of the First Continental Congress and John Dickinson's Letters of a Farmer in Pennsylvania. Unusually sophisticated for undergraduates, it requires students to read such authors as French Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, British Socialist Harold Laski, Congressional Librarian Archibald MacLeish, Machiavelli...
Pierre Laval and Marshal Pétain tried to keep up the illusion that there was food in France. Frenchmen knew that French food, like French heavy industry and French labor, was being transferred to Germany. Hitler was following Machiavelli's preachment: "He who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty. . . ." In France last week the sound of the watchword was growing louder...
...special talents give inappropriate energy to a somewhat vapid role. Alan Ladd is really the whole picture. With expert writing, direction and a very solid cast working to dilute him, Ladd makes Beaumont come close to the character that Hammett had in mind-an admirable, minor-league Machiavelli...
...Lebanese nearly wiped out the 2,500 Confederates first. Readers North and South may be startled by Author Street's account of the sordidness, trickery, confusion and coldheartedness with which the most romanced-about of wars began, and by the role which he assigns to that "Machiavelli in homespun," Abraham Lincoln, in touching...
Axel Wenner-Gren has not the manner of a geopolitical Machiavelli. Tall, slender, white-haired, blue-eyed and bronzed, he has an air of frankness and modesty...