Word: gamesmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Life may be a game, but not all games are lifelike. This basic distinction makes all the difference in two plays that recently opened in London, and whose authors are twin brothers with varying philosophies of gamesmanship. One brother has produced a work that is sheer play, the other a play that labors but does not work...
...passion for undeodorized reality. As a cantankerous, outspoken symbol of the unindexed human spirit, Lundquist is too dangerous to be allowed to roam the nation's slums, migrant-labor camps and mined-out hills. He might stir up the animals, or give them dangerous lessons in non-gamesmanship...
...protested to Potter as soon as the book came out that I had sent him the original in 1947, when his Gamesmanship had been published: an article entitled "Not in the South," which I had written in Punch, May 28, 1941, long before I knew Potter or had heard of gamesmanship or lifemanship. And I told Potter that I would like to meet this usurper, Mr. Pound, whoever he was, behind the fives court...
...course Potter had no "old heart trouble." That was a bit of good gamesmanship. But alas, he never did correct the attribution, and I would so have liked to have my name, even in a footnote, in one of those great books of his. Mr. Pound -pshaw...