Word: gamesman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evenhanded contrast, the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh was brainy, an amateur mathematician, a superior gamesman especially addicted to cricket and golf. A.A. Milne had been an editor of Punch, a master of whimsy and light verse. The Pooh books are for grownups as well as children, and he wrote them to make money and please himself as well as to please Christopher Robin. In fact, the elder Milne appears to have regarded small children as egotists and barbarians. "I have certainly never felt the least sentimental about them," he once told an interviewer, "or no more sentimental than...
...Jack Nicholson. He is letting off a little steam by putting on the kind of pressure he gets and cultivates almost every day. Nicholson is a past master at the Hollywood psych, a vocational tool for professional survival he employs with a street fighter's energy and a gamesman's cunning. On this occasion, he is just taking it out for a little airing on behalf of Hollywood's favorite team...
...critic but a dazzling one-man symposium. Devils represents Wilson the percipient tourist (in an essay on Italy's 16th century garden of sculptured monsters at Bomarzo), Wilson the memoirist and literary gamesman (in a record of his friendship with Novelist Edwin O'Connor), and Wilson the reviewer-who-was-there...
...Summer Gamesman moves, then closes his eyes sagely. A light but perceptible snore begins deep in his throat. The Gamesman "awakes" with a start and says: "Your move, isn't it?" This gambit is as variable as the game itself. It forces the Opponent to rush his moves and generally collapses his attack before the middle game...
...corrugated cardboard box full of ancient trophies, medals and ribbons, purchased at local antique emporiums. The awards-the more tarnished the better -may be for floral arrangements or American Legion conventions; none needs have the Host's name on it. As he shows the Guest around, the Summer Gamesman opens the closet door...