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...devoted admirer of any particularly good or successful book, especially in the field of humor, awaits with apprehension the arrival of a sequel. Partisans of Stephen Potter's "Gamesmanship," first published two or three years ago, have been on edge for some time now with the knowledge that a sequel was (inevitably) forthcoming. And there was some justification for their worries. "Gamesmanship" was an excellent book, but it was based on a very simple principle of humor, namely, that very ordinary ideas can be made excruciatingly funny if dressed up in formal categories and labeled with big names. There...
Well, the sequel has come, and has been called, obviously enough, "Lifemanship," and it is good. Potter uses the same technique, but he has not run dry - Lifemanship is every bit as charming a science as Gamesmanship. It is, in fact, simply an extension of Gamesmanship, which is Potter's big name for psychological warfare in friendly games, into the province of life. Where before Potter spoke of "Nice Chapmanship" (the art of putting the opponent in an embarrassing position by being excessively nice to him) he now speaks of "Weekendmanship" (the art, to put it roughly, of dominating...
...Smith Club, plaintiff, won the second quarter-final argument of the Ames Competition last night in the Langdell Court Room. Phillip C. Potter and Arthur V. Savage represented the winners, while Edward L. Johnson and Richard B. Miller pled for the defense, representing the Coke Club. All men are in the second year of the Law School...
...some cases, says Potter, the really adroit patient can put his doctor at a disadvantage right at the start by "throwing doubt on the very term doctor." For example, "I am, I suppose, right in calling you Doctor" works wonders...
...does not in fact possess." Suppose, for example, the doctor suggests that some ailment may be psychological in origin. "Oh, Doctor," the patient may reply, "I had no idea that was one of your subjects. I've always wanted a good psychotherapist." Follow up the advantage promptly, urges Potter: "Refuse to take in the doctor's worried assurance that he is not a trained psychiatrist. Make it appear that you are going to tell your friends to come to him for his 'marvelous cures...