Word: second-guessing
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...behind the newest games seems to be: Make them impossible, or at least interminable. Strategy games such as Diplomacy (TIME, Dec. 13, 1963) often drag on for eight hours, can devour a whole weekend. War games, notably Avalon Hill's Waterloo, Stalingrad and Gettysburg, allow a player to second-guess Napoleon, Hitler or Lee, and, if successful, reverse the course of history...
...self-confidence of a free people," he insisted on the primacy of legislative action. Thus, he lambasted the pre-1936 court for flouting the popular will. Thus, he later upheld anti-Communist laws based on detailed congressional findings. As he saw it, the court was no more entitled to second-guess the legislature in the '40s and '50s than it had been...
...uncle?an uncle with some experience m managing a pretty tough coal business. This uncle is looking over his nephew's shoulder because the uncle has invested $20 million of the family's money in his nephew's business." Love, so far, has found little need for uncle to second-guess nephew...
Cheating Can Pay. Such games have all the flaws of the men who design or umpire them. Says Harvard Business School Professor Lewis Bookwalter Ward: "If you second-guess the designer, you can beat hell out of the game." He cites the example of a popular game devised by a research-and-development-minded designer; one sharp team easily drubbed its competitors by pouring virtually all of its resources into R. & D. And it is not how you play the game, but whether you win or lose that counts. In a Princeton game simulating the used-car business, one team...
...extreme the view that "reality is not in appearance alone, but also in what men feel, think, imagine." For him, even the calligraphy of brush strokes is anathema, a romantic hangover from the days when the viewer, willy-nilly, could follow the painter's hand, guess and second-guess his intentions and hesitations. Soulages. with his plank-sized strokes, aims to hit the spectator with one knockout blow...