Word: metternich
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...universe of plea sure and relaxation - like Matisse's "armchair for tired businessmen," but more so - and in this he succeeded. He was the natural heir of the finest decorators of the 18th century, Fragonard and Boucher. "He who has not lived be fore the Revolution," said Metternich, "cannot know the sweetness of life," and Renoir's spiritual home was built before 1789. Almost from the start of his career, Renoir's technique and sense of construction were superb: witness the sober, Venetian expansiveness of his great tribute to Corot, Pont-des-Arts, circa...
...competing at the same time. Both encourage the formation of alliances in which two players can gang up on the third while at the same time scheming to doublecross each other. The shifting balance of power and Byzantine movement result in a chess contest that a Kissinger or Metternich would appreciate. The new games...
...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 Following that dictum, Kissinger and Nixon have reassessed U.S. relationships, abandoning some ties as out-of-date (Taiwan), remaking others that might inhibit freedom...
...important sense, he is Nixon's creation, using the power base of the presidency to roam the world and speak for Nixon, to set the stage for summits, to negotiate war and peace. There have been similar relationships before, but none exactly the same: Richelieu and Louis XIII, Metternich and Hapsburg Emperor Francis I, Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson, Harry Hopkins and F.D.R...
Kissinger's head has been showing up in quite a few places recently. The New York Review of Books also ran it, with a cartoon rendition of Metternich's body (clothed) to emphasize what it thinks of Kissinger. Kissinger himself has recently been seen in Saigon and Paris. Rayman claims that Kissinger was shown his head-on-a-cabdriver by an American soldier when he arrived in Saigon, so maybe he had something to think about while he was trying to get Thieu's head. There are endless ramifications. Still it is nice to know that Dan Ellsberg took...