Word: gamesmanship
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Canny Harry Hopman, nonplaying captain of the Australian Davis Cup team, seemed to be giving U.S. Captain Frank Shields a splendid lesson in Gamesmanship,* Down Under style. As a full-time tennis writer for the Melbourne Herald, Hopman based his opening ploy on the U.S. warmup performances. His particular target: Vic Seixas, who, he said, had "foot-faulted a number of times" without being taken to task. U.S. Captain Shields showed himself no mean Gamesman in return by promptly retorting: "When Harry resorts to such tactics as this, I think it indicates only that we've got him worried...
...more cynical order, is convinced that all social intercourse is in fact a merciless jungle struggle, where the weaker will be gobbled up like an anchovy canape by the man with the firmer grip on the conversation and the Martini glass. In his scholarly The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, or the Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948), Evolutionist Potter brought this insight to bear on sport; in Some Notes on Lifemanship, which might well be subtitled The Art of Licking the Other Fellow Without...
...devoted admirer of any particularly good or successful book, especially in the field of humor, awaits with apprehension the arrival of a sequel. Partisans of Stephen Potter's "Gamesmanship," first published two or three years ago, have been on edge for some time now with the knowledge that a sequel was (inevitably) forthcoming. And there was some justification for their worries. "Gamesmanship" was an excellent book, but it was based on a very simple principle of humor, namely, that very ordinary ideas can be made excruciatingly funny if dressed up in formal categories and labeled with big names. There...
Well, the sequel has come, and has been called, obviously enough, "Lifemanship," and it is good. Potter uses the same technique, but he has not run dry - Lifemanship is every bit as charming a science as Gamesmanship. It is, in fact, simply an extension of Gamesmanship, which is Potter's big name for psychological warfare in friendly games, into the province of life. Where before Potter spoke of "Nice Chapmanship" (the art of putting the opponent in an embarrassing position by being excessively nice to him) he now speaks of "Weekendmanship" (the art, to put it roughly, of dominating...
British Humorist Stephen Potter introduced a new approach to sport with his 1947 book, Gamesmanship: the Art of Winning at Games Without Actually Cheating (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948). Since then, he has applied his subtle new strategy to other departments (e.g., Guestmanship) in the never-ending game of life. Last week in Britain's learned medical journal, the Lancet, Philosopher Potter considered some likely gambits in the ancient game of Doctor v. Patient...