Word: mischiefism
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...Subtle Mischief." The next day, Harlan* spoke-and his ideas could hardly have been more divergent. Said Harlan: "One of the current notions that holds subtle capacity for serious mischief is a view of the judicial' function that seems increasingly coming into vogue. This is that all deficiencies in our society which have failed of correction by other means should find a cure in the courts . . . Some well-meaning people apparently believe that the judicial, rather than the political, process is more likely to breed better solutions of pressing or thorny problems. This is a compliment to the judiciary...
...natural actors. They seem content with their basic $17 a month. They charge in sweating, shining waves with rawhide shields and high-borne spears. They all but shout to one another. "Don't fire until you see the whites.'' At night, to keep them out of mischief, the producers show them movies...
...Communism; he never became the white god of some overcredulous tribe of aborigines; he does not have the lives of 10,000 better men lost in battle to explain away; he is not a busybody determined to pad the record of a long life spent in well-meant public mischief; he is not the survivor of unprecedented surgery or the sole eyewitness of some notable assassination or natural disaster; and he was never sentenced to 99 years in jail for something...
...voice box is some sort of faulty dishwasher. He and Ford pair off with the unpredictable felicity of vodka and to mato juice, and in Act III they tie on a mutual bender that makes that overdone theatrical filler, the drunk scene, seem like a creative inspiration in mischief...
...Caves. After two weeks of palaver with Castro, Russia's Anastas Mikoyan kept delaying his departure; the world could have no notion about what mischief the two might have cooked up, but in his infrequent public pronouncements, Mikoyan echoed only the intransigent Castro line. The U.S. naval blockade of Cuba continued, but it seemed mostly a matter of form: so far. the U.S. has passed 48 of the 49 foreign ships that entered the blockade area on to Cuba without boarding. Government spokesmen said they were satisfied that Russia's "offensive" missiles have indeed been removed from Cuba...