Word: mischiefism
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Psychoanalyst Rollo May describes Bethel as "a symptomatic event of our time that showed the tremendous hunger, need and yearning for community on the part of youth." He compares its friendly spirit favorably with the alcoholic mischief ever present at a Shriners' convention but wonders how long the era of good feeling will last. Other observers wonder about future superfestivals, if they become tourist spectaculars for adult hangers-on. The Hashbury began to die when the bus-driven voyeurs came by and the hard-drug addicts took over...
...Nixon people felt, it might result in confusion in foreign chancelleries. At worst, it might hobble the execution of foreign policy and perhaps even interfere with the Paris peace negotiations. Democratic Senator Gale McGee, one of the resolution's few active opponents, said that it was "loaded with mischief-making...
...city, parents improvised schools in churches, storefronts, brownstone basements and apartments. Other parental groups packed the kids off for tours of the city's museums, galleries and exhibit halls. There were cram courses in basic subjects on both educational and commercial television. Despite the potential for mischief in so prolonged a period of youthful idleness, police reported that there was no significant rise in juvenile delinquency. A feeling expressed on both sides was that it was the kids who, by their restrained conduct, showed themselves to be the real heroes of the strike...
...students arrested were charged with disturbing the peace, malicious mischief, and trepassing. Bail for each was set at $1650, and their arraignment is today...
...Mean Mischief These new books offer some value as footnotes to the argument. Julius Lester is a former field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. His Look Out, Whitey! is a long harangue that reproduces accurately the black tone of voice at its angriest. It is street-corner oratory aimed at blacks but spoken, as the mean mischief of the title suggests, with sly awareness of the whites standing at the edge of the crowd...