Word: machiavellis
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Miss Douglas' notion of family politics can make Machiavelli seem an innocent, as anyone knows who has read her prizewining first novel, A Family's Affairs. In Apostles of Light, Martha's relatives talk love and practice expediency. Before her on-again, off-again brain registers what is happening, Martha's house has been converted into a small nursing home called Golden Age Acres and filled with motel lobby furniture, polyethylene philodendrons, and assorted old folks eagerly abandoned by their own loving...
...Gray is not unprepared for her future. Aside from her practical experience, her scholarly studies on the Renaissance include a chapter on "Machiavelli: The Art of Politics and the Paradox of Power" in a collection of essays honoring her father. Defining the theories of the 15th century master of Florentine intrigue she wrote: "The virtuoso of power ... can be judged by the work he produces. It is good or bad according to its effectiveness, and what renders it noteworthy and successful may be ascribed to the qualities, actions and policies he has brought into play...
...credits bill Colonel Tom Parker as technical adviser, a title that does not do him justice. The colonel has been by Presley's side since the beginning, a combination Machiavelli and mother hen without whose approval nothing goes out under the Presley imprimatur. While the colonel does not actually appear in Elvis on Tour, his influence is strongly felt. Thus, although it is supposed to be a documentary, most of the movie's scenes seem as spontaneous as the Sadlers Wells Ballet. The concert footage is sweaty and lifeless, the music a combination of housebroken rock and soul...
...classical policy that Kissinger and Nixon are practicing derives from perceptions of national interest that have dictated successful foreign policy in Europe for 500 years. Political thinkers like Machiavelli and Hobbes contributed to a body of experience and theory that culminated in the 19th and 20th centuries in the effective policies of Metternich, Bismarck, Adenauer and De Gaulle, four statesmen whom Kissinger admires. Metternich claimed that "it is freedom of action, not formal relations" that leads to successful diplomacy. Following that dictum, Kissinger and Nixon have reassessed U.S. relationships, abandoning some ties as out-of-date (Taiwan), remaking others that...
Alioto said that it is "out of cities with all their violence that the best in our civilization has come." He also said that his city must be compared to the violent Florence of Machiavelli which he called "the most civilized city in the world...