Word: machiavellians
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Statesmen often act in a Machiavellian manner, but could a whole people be Machiavellian? Could Poland knowingly vote a Communist government into power, not because it likes or wants Communists but because that way it avoids trouble with the Soviet Union? This was the question some 18 million Polish voters, free from secret-police threats and reprisals for the first time in 19 years, had to answer this week...
...lead to violence") and to be on the safe side, the government planned to make public total counts rather than precinct by precinct, and the result, said government officials, would not be issued until later in the week. As some Communists frankly admitted, this provided an opportunity for a Machiavellian manipulation of the result, in the event that the voters had not been Machiavellian enough to see the peculiar merit of Gomulka. Poland was still a Communist state...
...Politics, Religion. The electronic boy-meets-girl gambit began when self-styled "Master of Informalities" Art Linkletter, 44, read that some 14 million Americans belong to lonely-hearts clubs. Machiavellian M.C. Linkletter, who once put a crocodile in a woman's bathtub, and recently sent a honeymoon couple to Utah to prospect for uranium, called on Dr. Paul Popenoe of Los Angeles' American Institute of Family Relations. Popenoe pointed out that people get married in a haphazard way, then drew up a questionnaire of 32 items that affect marital relations (sex, race, religion, politics, weight, height, pets, drinking...
...maxims (sample: "Where there is aw there is injustice") and then dies; he Machiavellian Prince Vassily (Tullio Jarminati) scarcely gets out of the wings, and the two men struggling for possession of Holy Russia, Kutuzov (Oscar Homolka) and Napoleon (Herbert Lorn), are seen simply as eccentrics-the one, an untidy, drowsy general; the other, a preening peacock who imagines he is an :agle...
...latest and last landlady is Mrs. Henry Rice, with a "bad, blackhearted, slimy voice." The landlady's son, Bernie, is an atrocious intellectual engaged in writing a great poem. His mother washes his hair for him, while he dreams of himself as Messire Bernardus Riccio, a Machiavellian figure. The landlady's brother, James Patrick Madden, is back from New York and thought to be rich; although a vulgar sort, Madden is Judith's last hope for a husband. The parish priest is a hard, harsh, unimaginative zealot called Father Quigley. Like all such spinsters, Miss Hearne...