Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defending co-champions (along with N.Y.U.), is much more of an intellectual exercise. "While trying to protect yourself, you are testing, trying your opponent. You are investigating his patterns, his attitudes, his favorite actions. You have a limited time in which to decipher him. It's like a chess game in rapid motion...
...chess game, De Koff also points out, was ever half so athletic. Crouched like a coiled spring, continually alert to lunge or parry, the fencer can feel tension spreading from his toes to his fingertips. And in the heat of combat, the new gentility sometimes wears thin. Given half a chance, a saberman (who can score points with a thrust or slice anywhere above his opponent's waist) may cut loose and whip his man across the back with a bruising blade. Even a city-bred college boy is seldom happier than on that rare occasion when his button...
East of Eden (Warner) provides, for those who can stand it, an experience as complex and fascinating as that of playing three-dimensional chess with three different opponents. The three levels in this film are occupied by the Bible story of Cain and Abel, by John Steinbeck's recent novel (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952), which attempts to retell the eternal tale as a modern instance, and by Director Elia Kazan's effort to reconcile the spirit of both with his own sharp sense of the story's meaning and with the claims of commerce...
...refused to name her, not out of gallantry alone but because "if you force me to tell. I'll never be able to return there." It was "no lady," shouted Eastland, but "a Communist bodyguard." Matusow insisted that it was a lady. "I did," he snapped, "play chess with a lady on Thursday night...
...former New Jersey State Chess Champion from the Medical School will be playing simultaneous matches on 20 boards in the Dunster House Large Common Room tomorrow evening...