Word: chess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pursuit of the Mous, the Snaile, and the Clamm by Mary Durant. Illustrated by Victoria Chess. 247 pages. Meredith. $4.95. Subtitled "a roving dictionary of the animal kingdom," this lighthearted book traces the names of animals back to abstruse origins. (The lowly burrowing gopher, for example, derives from gaufre, the French word for honeycomb.) The illustrations are shaggy dog in style, but accompanying quotations from naturalists, explorers and novelists can be stern indeed. Thus Admiral Jaacob van Neck on the dodo bird, circa 1598: "They have thick heads only partially covered with feathers and in place of wings only...
Caldron Cookery: An Authentic Guide for Coven Connoisseurs bv Marcello Truzzi, illustrated bv Victoria Chess. I 15 pages. Meredith. $3.95. Having exhausted everything from aardvark fried in yak butter to zabaglione a zingari, the compilers of cookbooks have turned to something really occult. Bats, eye of newt, serpents, felon's hands and less mentionable exotica seem to have formed the staple diet of the industrious witch. It should be said that this book serves no culinary purpose except perhaps to divert conversation among guests from the infamous concoctions some contemporary witch may happen to be serving in the name...
...clear phase-out of love and romance as important elements in the director's world view. In the latter, most recent picture, Wilder once and for all stops paying his rather vulgar homage to Ernst Lubitsch's lyricism and reduces love to a mere pawn in the chess game of human greed. Those who were fooled into thinking Wilder had some subconscious joie de vivre underneath his cynicism by his earlier pictures can't possibly believe that after The Fortune Cookie , where he shows us in no uncertain terms how much he despises us all. You don't exactly endear...
...Harvard senior has written a book relating Asian guerilla warfare to Wei-Ch'i, the Oriental counterpart of the game of chess...
...goal of the wei-ch'i player is to encircle his opponent, thereby extending his territorial control. Unlike the chess player, he does not attempt to capture his opponent's major pieces...