Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...epileptic, subject to periodic and unpredictable seizures. He had not been aware, he said, that he was being used as a martyr. But the progovernment, moderate leftist Al-Zaman published a different story. Shakhnoub had been hired by the Communists for five dinars (about $14) to play dead, said Al-Zaman. The women mourners got considerably less-about $1.50 apiece...
...primarily psychological purpose: that of confusing and spoiling the precise calculations of his opponent. Time and again, unexpected Tal moves forced Botvinnik to hesitate so long that he ran into trouble with his time limit, then rushed into making weak moves. Last weekend, with 13 games left to play, Tal led by 6½ to 4½-And in the ninth game of the match, Botvinnik won only by adopting Tal's tactics: he sacrificed a pawn without apparent reason-and thereby surprised and confused the challenger who specializes in surprise arid confusion...
...language fails him. "Mozart," he cries, "must be allegro. It must smile! Allegro not only with the tempo but with this!"-and he resoundingly slaps his face. At times he speaks like a counseling father: "I don't believe that to be a great man one needs to play only Wagner or Beethoven. Play also Traviata as you are best able to play. I like this music as I like Mozart...
Gathering information for his column Krock may call as many as a dozen top level government sources, as he did in a recent piece on the pros and cons of atomic-test suspension. "But," he says I often now deliberately play down new angles because I am not trying for beats but for understanding. I don't want to have the reputation of a 'scoop' artist That is tiresome for a man who wants to be a solid reporter...
...nearly as impassable. In Alan Sillitoe, the largely silent second nation has found a brilliantly articulate spokesman. His people, rattling around in the urban slums of the English Midlands, have nothing in common with the world image of the Englishman: tall, stolid, well-spoken with a reverence for fair play and the law. In this new collection of nine short stories, as in his novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Sillitoe's characters are spry, gamy, wry-humored, and view the British policeman not as a kindly bobby but as "a dirty, bullying, jumped-up bastard...