Word: gamesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Current Crimson boxing Coach Tommy Rawson, who met Lamar in the late 1920s and worked with him at Harvard, spoke of him in glowing terms. "He was an outstanding gentleman and gamesman," Rawson said...
...title play, Nabokov examines the somnambulistic life of his fellow wanderers. The plot--a mysterious figure arrives with empty promises of return and recognition--is, as in all the works, secondary. Nabokov, the ultimate gamesman, takes the word play seriously. A coquette demands, "Why don't you say something?" Replies her lover: "Forgot my lines." A woman theorizes, "There were several Lenins. The real one was killed at the very beginning." Another abruptly decides that she is not in love, because "there was no violin...
Michael Maccoby '54, whose book The Gamesman was a best-seller in 1977, has drawn on his research as director of the Kennedy School's Program on Technology, Public Policy, and Human Development to write a new study on modern management called The Leader (Simon and Schuster) The book is, in Maccoby's words, "an analysis of why our modes of leadership don't work today...