Word: machiavellis
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...wrote it secretly and kept it hidden in the woods on his land not far from Munich. It is easy to see why. In the journal, Hitler appears as a "gypsy baron," 'a teetotaling Alexander," a "vegetarian Tamerlane," "an unclean essence." Mein Kampf is dismissed by Reck as "Machiavelli for chambermaids." Albert Speer's clean-cut expression is "the epitome of this whole, sickening, mechanical, little-boy-at-heart generation." Goring, the son of a waitress, is rendered among his looted art and phony coat of arms as a preposterous sham. In fact, Reck saw the whole Third...
...problems, but they vary in importance. Thus he views traffic congestion as part of the price of living in a vital city; such discomforts can be tolerated, if not enjoyed. Indeed, the city environment is not necessarily the most important aspect of a city. "One has only to read Machiavelli's history of Florence," writes Banfield, "to see that living in a beautiful city is not in itself enough to bring out the best in one. So far as their humanity is concerned, the people of, say, Jersey City compare very favorably to the Florentines...
...people have a deep-down relish, even though decades may have gone by since the play was originally produced. Room Service is 33 years old, and it revolves around just such a folklorish figure, the shoestring Broadway producer. Gordon Miller (Ron Leibman) is part wind machine, part mongoose, part Machiavelli and part...
...midshipmen, starched and polished, march smartly to the drum and bugle of dress parade. It is a traditional display of martial crispness for academy brass and visiting VIPs. But these Wednesdays, after the last salute is snapped, many a middie returns to the not-so-traditional company of Machiavelli, Malthus or Montesquieu-required reading in such brand-new majors as literature, economics and political science. The marriage of military discipline and academic freedom is uneasy at best, but Rear Admiral James F. Calvert, now in his second year as academy superintendent, has proved himself a talented matchmaker...
...Parliament some 200 years ago, an enraged M.P. described the project as "totally subversive to the last remains of English liberty." Only in 1801 was the idea reluctantly accepted. The notion that the census is a Machiavellian device designed to enhance the power of the government is still strong; Machiavelli did, in fact, compile a statistical abstract for Germany and France in 1515 that might be called a forerunner of modern census analysis...