Word: gamesmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Underlying the Mike Cahalan gamesmanship was the question. "How could a swimmer come to make important team decisions that traditionally and exclusively are the province of the head coach?" The answer is found in the uneasy arrangement the coaching structure...
...changing of narrators could create meaningful ambiguity where his sympathies are all too clear. Egomania has overcome Jones' perspective, and he creates only caricatures which, taken all together, add up to a jig-saw portrait of Jones himself. The Jack Hartley who tells this story of sexual gamesmanship set in Paris during the May '68 strike is Jones masquerading as sophisticated literary figure, editor of "The Two Islands Review" (founded after "George's" Paris Review went soft), and Boswell to an American expatriate named Harry T. Gallagher. Gallagher is Jones as celebrity author and sexual psychopath-though his tentative adventures...
...Virginia Woolf is a study in gamesmanship, gamesmanship that comes more and more into the open as the evening gets later and the characters drunker. A post faculty-party get-together reaches the point where pretenses and defenses have completely fallen before a siege of garbled speech and very clearly pointed conversation. The games are played for more than prestige-points; the stakes rise until two players are at each other's throats and the two others are very nearly at the point of psychological defeat...
...highly damaging. He kept a date with editors of the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News?and deliberately took an overly tough line. Nixon hinted that the U.S. might use the holding of the airline hostages as a handy excuse to attack the commandos. In an odd bit of gamesmanship, a mixture of guile and almost naive candor, the President indicated that it might be beneficial if the Soviets thought the U.S. capable of "irrational or unpredictable" action...
...they are attainable. "Law-and-order works when you open a new narcotics center in New York City, when you hire more policemen in Los Angeles, when you computerize court calendars in Pittsburgh. It's not as dramatic as talking tough. It may not be good political gamesmanship. But tedious, systematic, nuts-and-bolts work is the only way to rebuild criminal justice...