Word: machiavellis
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...good old ignorant days of Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin, the thriller was a mild, usually non-murderous affair in which there was nothing more bestial than a hound with phosphorescent jowls. Today, when "emancipation is complete [and] Freud and Machiavelli have reached the outer suburbs," the pulp thriller is "a daydream appropriate to a totalitarian age . . . a distilled version of the modern political scene, in which such things as mass bombings of civilians . . . torture to obtain confessions . . . execution without trial . . . drownings in cesspools, systematic falsification of records and statistics . . . bribery and quislingism are normal and morally neutral, even admirable...
...Western philosophy from Thales (B.C. 640) to Philosopher Russell. It also discusses great religions (Greek polytheism, Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism) and a number of thinkers whom philosophers do not consider philosophers but whose thought and actions have been important to man's mind (St. Francis, St. Benedict, Karl Marx, Machiavelli, Byron). There are expositions of great books, Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Spinoza's Ethics, and the History is almost as full of poems as an anthology...
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...