Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL GAME OF THE WEEK (NBC, 3 p.m. to conclusion). Detroit Tigers at Seattle Pilots...
ADAPTATION-NEXT. Two one-acters, both directed with a crisp and zany comic flair by Elaine May. Miss May's own play, Adaptation, is the game of life staged like a TV contest. Terrence McNally's Next features James Coco in a splendid performance as an overage potential draftee...
John Ince had to settle for second in Ivy League scoring this spring. The fellow he edged for the scoring total last year, Mark Webster, scored 16 points in his final two games to go right by Princeton's Pete Johnsen and Ince with a final total of 31 compared to Ince's 27. But I'm probably more upset about it than he is. I told him last week that Webster needed six points to tie him, and Webster had one game left. Ince shrugged his shoulders and told me not to bother getting excited about it, in other...
...ball when there is a group of players trying to pick it up. Just simple preservation. But Ince really surprised Yale's Carl Bates, who is a good deal heavier, when he knocked him right off the field while the Eli defense was trying to clear in the final game of the season. Harvard got the ball as a result. Around the net, Ince maneuvers well enough to just about negate any lack of brawn...
...Nabokov novel is intended not as a message?but as a delight. It is also a game in which the alert reader is rewarded by feelings of wonder at the illusiveness of reality. "In a first-rate work of fiction," he argues, "the real clash is not between the characters, but between the author and the world." Nabokov's books are conceived like the chess problems that he has composed during the past half-century. He describes in an early novel the miraculous way in which a flat, abstract contrivance (in chess or art) can take on vitality and light...