Word: gamesmanship
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...filmed: it is also hugely entertaining. Viewing a tottering upper-class in pre-World War II France. Renoir involves us in an atmosphere where dated concepts of honor attained through individual merit (and in nationalist conquests) melt in the midst of equally outmoded and even blinder French aristocratic gamesmanship. Underneath the veneer, worker and German frustration seethes. The plotting and editing are whirlwind: if you can't catch everything first time around, you ski across the surface of each situation and get some idea of the terrain. The cast includes Marcel Dalio and the director himself...
...coaxes colleagues away from a leisurely meal, hauls them up from blankets in the sun and hammocks in the shade-all in the name of Sport. For the victim, no pest coil or 90-day collar will serve as repellent. No, the only proven method of defense is Summer Gamesmanship...
CHESSMANSHIP. The late Stephen Potter, Field Martial of Gamesmanship, conceived this classic chess ploy before Bobby Fischer pushed his first pawn. Challenged, the Summer Gamesman makes three random moves and resigns...
...much for Potter. But with his death in 1969 it became necessary for disciples to develop Gamesmanship...
There is a sad tradition, however, of successful humorists writing sequels. Ring Lardner took the hero of You Know Me, Al to the battlefields of France, and Stephen Potter, the creator of Gamesmanship, descended to writing gamesman's rules as advertisements for soft drinks. True to the tradition, Dr. Peter has now written The Peter Prescription, subtitled How to Make Things Go Right, and sub-subtitled Sixty-Six Formulas for Improving the Quality of Your Life...