Word: mischiefism
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...singular strength of the book is that Isherwood brings this happy mix of earnestness and mischief to the realm where it is most essential and most rare: the search for God. When he determined to dedicate himself to the Swami, he made it plausible by remembering that he "hated anything which sounded like 'religion'" and "had always regarded Vedanta philosophy, or yoga, as the ultimate in mystery-mongering nonsense." Here is the perfect skeptic's guide to faith, in which even the most vaporous of concepts is rendered with a brilliant everyday lucidity ("The Ego...is like...
Mother Nature behaved as everyone warned one day she would, but human nature never fails to surprise. Stripped of safety and comfort, survivors made their choices: greed, mercy, mischief, gallantry, depravity or a surrender to despair. So nurses hand-pumped the ventilators of dying patients after the generators and then the batteries failed, while outside the hospitals, snipers fired at ambulances, and invading looters with guns demanded that doctors turn over whatever drugs they had. Hijackers shot the tires of fleeing vehicles, slapped the spares on after the owners escaped and drove the cars away themselves. Some police officers battled...
...summertime, and Harry makes his way from the Dursleys' to the Weasleys' to Diagon Alley to Hogwarts (we're spared the Sorting Hat's customary verbosities this year). Snape has at long last secured the Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching job. Draco has his usual generic mischief cooking. Harry, now 16, has been made captain of Gryffindor's Quidditch team, and he has stumbled on a mysterious potions textbook that was formerly the property of--wait for it--a certain Half-Blood Prince. Meanwhile, Dumbledore and Harry, with the help of that always handy expository aid the Pensieve...
...nickname signature "Cap," while the copies distributed to Perle and others in the Pentagon were unsigned: the implication was that it was leaked after receipt elsewhere in the Government. A fine point, perhaps, but by week's end Washington insiders were convinced that other players had more motive for mischief. Said Maine's Republican Senator William Cohen: "You can just as easily assume it was the liberals trying to embarrass the President into a negotiating posture as you can believe it was conservatives trying to forestall concessions...
...least two other courses of action. One is for the U.S. to support the contras indefinitely as a way of distracting and bleeding the Sandinistas. Even if the contras cannot win militarily, perhaps they could provide insurance that the regime would be too busy at home to make mischief abroad...