Word: gamesmanship
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...years ago a British wit named Stephen Potter published a little book called The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948)-a waggish study of how to win games "without actually cheating." Last week, in School and Society, a U.S. dean did much the same thing for "Academic Respectability"-how to attain it without actually knowing how to teach. If members of the profession will only follow a few simple rules, writes Dean H. T. Morse of the University of Minnesota's General College, such respectability is assured...
...most successful article is one written in the manner of Potter's gamesmanship-or How to Win Without Actually Cheating." It is called "Test-manship" and gives some various practices which may be employed in "the art of taking exams without actually knowing anything." This piece of drollery, along with the cartoons, and an advertisement announcing that the lampoon is offering a prize of 3 dollars "to the sophomore who stands lowest in the class at the end of the year without actually being expelled," are the only contributions to humor made this month by the Bow street rakes. There...
Many a man has been cornered at bar rail or cocktail table by an expert, and felt his eyes glazing and his mind wandering desperately like a white mouse in an empty cakebox. In the current Atlantic Monthly, Stephen Potter, a BBC director and father of Gamesmanship ("The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating"-TIME, Sept. 6), offered such defensive citizens the art of Lifemanship...
...that their etiquette or sportsmanship is in question . . . Smith sent a double fault to me, and another double fault to Joad. He did not get in another ace service till halfway through the third set of a match which incidentally we won . . . For me it was the birth of gamesmanship...
...Secondary Hamper. On the jacket, the U.S. publisher compares the techniques that Potter and certain accomplices have worked out to "psychological warfare." Since it is directed against "friends," gamesmanship attacks the very woof of society. Some of Author Potter's maxims...