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...this year's fencing captain is not merely the athletic stereotype of a fighter. He does not just "give it all he's got," and squeeze every last drop of mindless, animalistic energy from his body. Gene Vastola is far more subtle than that. His sport, "physical chess," as he calls it, requires that he be far more subtle than that...
...swags. In the middle period of Steppenwolf, he contrived a surreal kind of existentialism. In his masterpiece, The Glass Bead Game (or Magister Ludi, the English title), composed during precisely the years when Hitler consolidated his power, Hesse invented his own classical serenity, all civilization encoded in an infinite chess game to be played like the Pythagorean music of the spheres, but in a motionless universe. The book was completed in Hesse's Swiss redoubt at Montagnola just about the time that Dachau and Auschwitz were becoming busiest. An overheated concern with relevance was not one of Hesse...
...band struck up Life Begins at 60, and the citizens of Hamburg shouted birthday greetings to the local boy who made good. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was especially pleased with his birthday loot: a chess set with porcelain figures from French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and front-page replicas of 20 German newspapers dated Dec. 23, 1918, the date of his birth. Before the day was out, the Chancellor attended four bashes and pumped 3,000 hands. "I'll certainly have to go to the doctor," said Schmidt. "Some people put the strength...
...prominent member of the Harvard community. Recent events include conversations with Nelson A. Rockefeller and Andrew Young, a billiards exhibition starring Minnesota Fats and a program on antiques. Between 75 and 100 members watch films of Harvard football games every Thursday during the season. The club also fields chess and bridge teams that play in college club leagues...
...Chess," he answered...