Word: gamesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UNFORTUNATELY, that is only part of the story. While Pentagon gamesmen have made their return to the fold only recently, pressure has been building for a number of years for a re-instatement of another Vietnam-era favorite, the Selective Service System. The movement has been subtle, of course: no bills have been introduced to Congress yet, and so far very few Congressmen have gone to the stumps with formula-like speeches about devotion to God, flag and motherhood. But lobbying for the draft has apparently gone on behind the scenes, taking the less obvious form of news documentaries, reports...
...gamesman is not fanatically loyal to his company; he accepts corporate rules but is skilled at finding short cuts. Indeed, one of his main concerns on the way up is to get superiors to leave him alone. Politically, he may be something of a closet liberal: Maccoby's gamesmen worried about pollution, and a surprising number thought the U.S. was spending too much of the national budget on defense. But the gamesman sees little connection between those attitudes and his work: he will cheerfully build polluting products, weapons or anything else that will sell. One of his chief goals...
...Gamesman has already been placed on many executive "must" reading lists. Among the businessmen who have already read it, one finds it an interesting contribution to management lore, another calls it "outrageous." A third cautions that junior executives cannot learn to become gamesmen by reading the book: the skills and attitudes are instinctive, "not like learning geometry." But Maccoby did not intend his work as instruction, only as description. In that capacity, it should fuel cocktail-party and water-cooler discussion for months, as workers try to classify their bosses-and themselves-according to Maccoby's types...
...school gamesmen that they are, the British make him a sporting proposition-money, false papers, a gun and as much of a head start as they can manage if he cares to make a despairing run for his life. It is an offer he cannot refuse in the circumstances. Ventura's run-which includes trying to capture a Russian spy (who is also a well-known symphonic conductor), whom the fugitive needs as bait for a deal with his former masters-forms the substance of a movie that is at once deft and thoughtprovoking...
...programming executives are consummate gamesmen. But traditionally, the fall schedules they announce close to Washington's Birthday-unlike the trial balloons they float down Madison Avenue earlier-are the ones they really mean. This year, there was an unprecedented amount of delay and, in the words of one ABC vice president, "a lot of lying." The explanation came last week with the schedules: 35 of TV's 77 prime-time series, including the longest running program of them all, The Ed Sullivan Show, were jettisoned. It was the most convulsive upheaval in network history...