Inside the athletes' compound, not two hundred yards from the hostages, a carefree game of touch football was under way.
With a volleyball net intersecting the stage in Alexey Poray-Koshits's clever design, the play begins with a carefree game before shifting to a concentration camp, where the net, a symbol of emotional separation, now represents a distressed, snow-covered gate.
In fact, I was dreaming of a carefree game of duck-duck-goose when I awoke at the lodge to the happy clink of the coffee tray outside my door.
Every few minutes, the elderly Kmoch padded over to the group and whispered, ineffectually, "Sh-h-h, boys!" We watched the lad and Dr. Beninson breeze through a dozen of these lightning, carefree games, involving perhaps as many as a thousand moves, in the half hour or so we stayed there.
The bombings in Volgograd Sunday and Monday killed 34 people and injured 72, a blood-stained reminder of Russia's enduring vulnerability to extremist violence and a grim challenge to Putin's promises of staging carefree Olympic Games in the southern city of Sochi in February.
He set 18 large buildings on 200 rolling acres of manicured flower beds, lakes and lawns for carefree Frisbee games.
I can remember children from school who were one day exactly like me, carefree and fair game for teasing and name-calling, and the next they were just another casualty of the growing divorce rate: another latch-key kid.
Since he was 8, games, carefree days, school and textbooks were replaced by Yura's efforts to overcome the hardship of life, fighting in the streets for a piece of bread for him and his disabled father, Edik, to take care of the most basic needs.
The intent, in other words, is to bestow upon the game a carefree and democratic ethos.
"The tough times will make him far stronger as an individual, and with his carefree approach to the game, it could be a lethal combination".
Not so cool was Pablo Sandoval, the Giants' fun-loving, free-swinging third baseman who has endeared himself to baseball fans here for his carefree approach to the game.
