Word: mischiefism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he shot himself in 1961, leaving out the remainder of his life, his trunk was full of finished work which he had not allowed to be published. Since then his literary executors have been busy putting things back in. However reverent their motives, what they do is mostly mischief...
...Mary is regal, nervous, passionate, uncertain - a delicate creature in life who becomes indomitable only in death. Miss Jackson's Elizabeth is cunning, complex, intriguing - a monarch whose desire for power is both a motivating force and a tragic flaw, Otherwise, various men of the court make violent mischief amongst each other on staircases and battlements...
...incredible voice. For those spectacular talents, most of us would accept an amalgam of megalomania, immorality, the frizzles and flat feet; but happily we don't have to. To experience a Sills performance is to revel in her joyous nature, her exuberance, her graciousness and that leavening of mischief. Sills is summer ir full bloom...
Prodigies of imagination. Compared with the behavior of any species except man, the chimp's social life is richly sophisticated. They have a wide range of intelligible expressions: fear, rage, hunger, shock, confusion, boredom, irritation, amusement, worry, pleading, mischief, tenderness, embarrassment-even a look of comic alarm that reminded Jane of refined English girls watching horror movies. The chimps also smile, hold hands, dance when it rains, play simple games and stage hugging-and-backslapping orgies when they discover a new fruit tree...
...novel like Garrett's is pesty mischief because, even if it tells no lies, it cannot stick to provable truth. And the better the illusion, the more mischievous the book. Yet it would be hard to wish that he had written a different book...