Word: mischiefism
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...watchful nurse and an equally stern, watchful Secret Service man-plenty of protection, it would seem, for any well-mannered little girl. But as any well-worn parent knows, care and caution are never quite equal to the heart-stopping hazards that occasionally complicate the existence of a cheerful, mischief-minded three-year-old. Last week Washington Star Society Columnist Betty Beale uncovered just such an incident in the life of the President's daughter...
...live morally without some reference to the supernatural? A great many philosophers have found mischief or disaster in man's relying only on man. Not so, Hook. He is sure that man can live without searching for meaning in mystery, without seeking to explain the inexplicable, and that he can achieve glory in the attempt. "We need not repine that we are not gods or children of gods," Hook declares. "The politics of despair, the philosophy of magical idealism and the theology of consolation forget that although we are not gods, we still can act like...
...Kimbrough Sinclair, 78, a Mississippi beauty who married muckraking Socialist Crusader Upton Sinclair in 1913, devoted the rest of her life to his myriad causes (vegetarianism, Prohibition and three campaigns for the governorship of California), his writing (75 books) and, finally, to keeping him "at home and out of mischief"; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. Herself the author of sonnets and a sprightly autobiography, Southern Belle, she described "Uppie" as "a dual personality-a helpless child in his personal affairs and a brave and skillful fighter in the cause he loved...
...Power inspires sharper drama than knowledge, particularly for those without the German to follow Faust's speculations and soliloquizings. Goethe's Mephistopheles, on the other hand, boasts some of the internationalism of Hell. Less fiend than cold-blooded mocker and cynic, he is full of wit and mischief, and Gustaf Gründgens, who plays him nimbly enough, has the one role that can often make action as expressive as words...
...which parody is a subdivision, is discouraged because reality outdistances it. What can a satirist add to the U2-Summit-Meeting fiasco? Or to the dealings between the United Nations and Premier Lumumba of the Congo Republic-the latter a character right out of Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief? Indeed, in the Congo tragicomedy, history seems to be parodying itself...