Word: nomadism
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...govern by games theory is that some people don't want to play. What is worse, some people don't even know they are in a game. It is the job of the mathematicians, systems analysts and directors at a government-sponsored foundation involved in Project Nomad to get everybody into their game-or at least reduce to a minimum the chances of irrational, unpredictable moves by nonplayers, mostly the poor and angry urban masses...
...what of unpredictable moves by the people who make the rules? Despite batteries of computers and mountains of probability charts, Nomad did not count on the sudden defection of its most important employee, Carl Lundquist. An aging social scientist, Lundquist knows all the secrets and strategies of Nomad. He also combines the stature of a Vardis Fisher mountain man with Gunnar Myrdal's scholarship, Saul Alinsky's cogs-and-wheels knowledge of the impoverished and disaffected, and Walt Whitman's passion for undeodorized reality. As a cantankerous, outspoken symbol of the unindexed human spirit, Lundquist...
...mission fails. Lundquist remains at large. Bell stumbles back into Nomad's hands. But no amount of truth serum pumped into him by Nomad can cure him of exposure. Physical hardship, and the bitter fervor and wild-goat odor of the corpus Lundquist, have quickened his sense of human possibilities. He comes to believe that-contrary to the Declaration of Independence-happiness is not a goal to be pursued but something that overtakes a man only when he hits his full stride...