Word: gamesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Stephen Potter, 69, the greatest contemporary gamesman of them all (see MODERN LIVING...
...book is loaded with stories of Jarrell the gamesman. He and Lowell used to sit in an empty classroom playing "Who's First?", a game in which they would downgrade fellow-poets until they were the only two left at the top. From his youth, he loved tennis and he lavishly admired professional football, spending countless Sunday afternoons in front of his TV and eventually making Johnny Unitas a figure for the poet's craft. Once, while a house guest, he lost a croquet game to some children, and his hostess detected him at 5 a.m. the next morning...
Verdict by Computer. Head gamesman at Johns Hopkins University is Social Relations Professor James Coleman, who works with Baltimore public school students. In one contest, a community is struck by a natural disaster and players must weigh their personal welfare against their social duty to help the town to survive. In a "Life Career" game, teams of students are assigned a hypothetical individual with specific personal qualities and must make key decisions on education, job choices, even marriage, for him. The groups are scored by the statistical chances of success for each of these moves...
Kisses & Gamesmanship. In the finals, Balsis' opponent was none other than Wimpy Lassiter. A master gamesman in the tradition of Robert Cannafax, who used to pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg while his opponent was shooting, Lassiter complained of a fever, sinusitis and ulcers. "Pool players all die of malnutrition at 50," he moaned. "I've got four years to live...
Freudian man, Marxian man, organization man, lifeman, gamesman and grey-flannel-suit man-what were they compared to the S-Man? Piglets to a python. In the diabolically clever guise of a self-help manual, The S-Man aims a good Swiftian kick at the cult and cultists of success. A British export, the book lacks the clubby good humor of Parkinson and Potter, substitutes instead the wittily barbed aphorisms of the success man's ascent ("New friends are best friends"). Cocktail party Platos will find a host of new S-Man concepts, including the Inhibition Barrier...