Word: machiavellis
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...keep any books or accounts or anything") left the witness stand to a patter of applause, televiewers felt they knew all they needed to know about the free-spending, fur-bearing ex-waitress. Similarly, an urbane, aging Republican politician named Charles Lipsky revealed himself as a road-company Machiavelli hopelessly fascinated by criminal and political types ("I just loved to study Joe Adonis"). And Frank Costello, refusing to have his face televised, and finally refusing to talk at all while the cameras concentrated on his fidgeting hands, emerged as a wire-pulling colossus, a sort of bogus Bernard Baruch...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. noon, CBS). Machiavelli's Prince...
Failure of a Mission. History has presented the bloody Cesare as diabolical, dazzling and colorful. Author Balchin makes him look like an austere combination of Sir Stafford Cripps and Cesare's own calloused admirer, the scholarly Niccolo Machiavelli. Cesare's fall came when Julius II, a deadly enemy of the Borgias, became Pope. Cesare wound up in Spain, where he was killed in battle...
...Domingo Perón, six times a doctor honoris causa (Argentina has six universities). Arriving by special train with wife Evita, Peró led a motor caravan to the auditorium, through thousands of cheering descamisados. There, in a 70-minute speech, he managed to touch on Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Spinoza. As for himself, he said he was between Hegel and Marx-against both "immoral individualism" and the "insectification of the individual," in favor of what he called "justicialism...
Perle's conception of herself as a combination Machiavelli and Madame de Stael makes White House aides smile quietly. Actually, she plays a more becoming role in the Administration: she entertains Harry Truman and his friends, gives pleasure in doing so, and gets pleasure from it. Said one aide flatly: "She has no more influence, policywise, than that post...