Word: mischiefism
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...normal, fun-loving teenster with an abnormal capacity for mischief and for sometimes saying and doing things I shouldn't. My parents, are the finest in the world without a doubt. They remember their own youth and are kind, tolerant and understanding, but firm in the dispensing of parental authority. However, when I'm really in the wrong and deserve to be punished, I get it: said "it" being 48 sound whacks across my bare bottom with Dad's hand...
...popularity of such sustained mayhem has been thoroughly tested: this is the sixth cinema version of the Jack London novel in 30 years. To man the unpleasant cast (only woman is Ida Lupino), the ranks of Hollywood hoodlums were culled for such experienced mischief-makers as Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield and Gene Lockhart. Guided by the extravagant hand of Director Michael Curtiz, The Sea Wolf's latest treatment stresses the psychological quirks of Wolf Larsen (Robinson), skipper of the scavenger ship Ghost, a sadistic tyrant who likes to curl up with a volume of Milton's poems...
Snooperman took a trip out west the other night and pulled a job on the Seattle College Library, reversing 24,000 books with lightning-like speed and completely baffling authorities who discovered the mischief next morning. Workers spent most of next day turning the volumes around and rearranging them in serial order...
...German Embassy in Washington, on instructions from Berlin, protested to the State Department, which formally expressed its regrets. The sailors were tried, convicted of malicious mischief...
Maritain is pessimistic about patching up this mischief, sees no hope except in "a new temporal order inspired by Christianity." Man's basic need, he says, is a return to the "integral humanism" of Aquinas, a new philosophy of the person. Maritain's new society would be democratic, but would frighten good bourgeois citizens...