Word: mischiefism
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...prison term for publishing a letter that denounced Catalan nationalism-a letter that echoed the government's own views. Why, then, was he punished? In a nation where veiled irony and subtle ridicule have been wielded so often in place of open criticism, nervous officials may detect calculated mischief-making even in some reports that seem to follow the official line...
...worlds. There is a vast wealth of conspiracy to be uncovered, large numbers of liberal professors to humiliate, and it is not lonely at all. It is fun. It is great fun to manipulate the Establishment, to push it around, to outsmart it. It is what David Riesman calls "mischief" with a consciousness of the absurd always there...
...Saigon regime, revolutionaries all over the world will be decisively deterred. Such a victory will demonstrate once and for all that the United States has the power to carry out the Truman Doctrine and suppress uprisings led by "armed minorities." Once this action quells the revolutionary aspirations of any mischief-making extremists, the theory further predicts that countries of Asia and Latin America will forever be spared revolutions. The American-in-the-street is quick to understand that this will keep his country on top. So he supports the Vietnam...
...maybe, just maybe, the Administration will relent and give us one more chance. One more mixer--a chance to relive times that may never be again. A chance for Harvard, students to be on their best behavior and rewin the privilege that they have lost with their unconscionable past mischief...
...making the Germans more determined than ever to press him. "I will not travel to Paris in sackcloth and ashes," said Brandt, "and this applies all the more to the Chancellor. It is high time that we put an end to what many in this country regard as sheer mischief...