Word: gamesmanship
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...blunder, I would arrange to have dinner with a friend. On one or two occasions I stayed the weekend." One of Emil Sr.'s concerns was sportsmanship. "He thought it was terrible to file protests," says Bus, "and he always warned me not to get involved in gamesmanship, which was especially prevalent...
...worse. Caltech's Feynman tries to ease the pain by wryly reminding freshmen that inevitably "half of every one of Caltech's classes is below the class average." Yet M.I.T. English Professor Barry Spacks finds his students refreshing because they "exhibit none of the pretenses and gamesmanship of places like Harvard -if they don't know who T. S. Eliot is they...
...threat of direct nuclear clash between the U.S. and Russia has all but vanished for the foreseeable future. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 taught Moscow how easy it is to slide from cold war gamesmanship toward white-hot holocaust, and the knowledge was profoundly sobering. The possibility of a sneak nuclear attack, while not entirely discounted, is pretty well ruled out by military men; the attacker could not himself escape destruction. Says Herman Kahn, the physicist and Government consultant who popularized the term "escalation": "Barring a blowup in Eastern Europe, there will be no confrontation with the Soviets...
...pacesetter in scholarly gamesmanship is the San Diego public school system, where Project SIMILE of La Jolla's Western Behavioral Sciences Institute has enticed 2,000 junior and senior high school students to pit wits against one another in four types of games. In one, called "Napoli," they play the roles of legislators who are equipped with opinion polls showing how their constituents feel about such issues as medicare, tax reduction and subsidies for the poor. As bills on these issues move through the legislature, each player has to make choices between his principles and what he thinks...
...great exhibition of gamesmanship as well as squash. Niederhoffer, who mixes drops, smashes, and three-corner shots beautifully, is a master of strategy, deception, and anticipation. Howe, an extremely poised player, is perhaps a little faster...