Word: one-upmanship
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...once again, "Odets where is thy sting?" and proves the superiority of one who knows that he is a clown to one who does not. College instructors should perhaps prescribe the book as esthetic therapy. Not that even today's sophomores are likely to lose their critical faculties over a ghost of the '30s like Clifford Odets; nor. as E. B. White proves in a one-page version of Somerset Maugham, is the jejune quality of the Old Party's dinner-jacketed one-upmanship likely to delude the young. The wonder is, Twentieth Century Parody suggests, that...
...anybody knows who has ever played the game, musical one-upmanship requires the gall of a party-crasher, the guile of a tax consultant, and the memory of an IBM machine. The winning player must know what musical names to drop at the right time: if he is naive enough to mention Jean Sibelius just now, he is sure to lose points, while Gustav Mahler will get him a lot of mileage this season, and he will do well almost any year with the really unknown names (Karl Ditters von Dit-tersdorf) that make his opponents uneasy. But what separates...
...first blink, this seems to be one of those drab little British dramas in which an ill wind can be heard whistling across the raw clay of a new housing development. But there is an extra dimension: magic of sorts. At St. Bride's, a public school "of the second class," middle-aged Bill Mor wonders what to do with a life already half wasted in the chalky smog of history classrooms and hopelessly Potterized by his wife, a ruthless practitioner of "one-upmanship." The chance of liberation comes in the figure of a beautiful, boyish girl artist named...
...both time and instantaneous exposures"). Time has retouched Author Raucat's Japan without cropping any essentials in his cultural snapshots. Few writers have probed more skillfully behind the deep bow and the polite smile for that web of obligations which keep the Japanese in a fine sweat between one-upmanship and one-downmanship. Fewer still have captured the pratfalls of Western emulation...
Married. Stephen Potter. 55, bony British humorist famed for his puckish "man-ship" books (Gamesmanship, One-Upmanship, Lifemanship); and Mrs. Heather Jenner. 39, blonde, bestselling (Marriage Is My Business) British authority on courtship; both for the second time (her first ended in divorce after her husband accused her of adultery, naming Potter as corespondent); in London...