Word: mischiefism
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NONFICTION: Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman Eleni, Nicholas Gage ∙Frida, Hayden Herrera ∙ Lectures on Don Quixote, Vladimir Nabokov Salvador, Joan Didion ∙ White Mischief, James...
...stressed what the treaty did not accomplish: it failed to stop, much less reverse, the arms race; it failed to close the "window of vulnerability" by eliminating the hypothetical possibility of a first strike against the U.S. More generally, the treaty entailed no accompanying restraint on Soviet adventurism and mischief making around the world...
...WHITE MISCHIEF by James Fox Random House; 299 pages...
...James Fox, a British journalist who went on to reconstruct the crime and, after trips to Kenya and interviews with Lord Erroll's friends, produce a plausible murderer. His gift for narrative immediately carries the reader into a long-gone, closed world of privilege and debauchery. White Mischiefs authentic cast of characters is as satisfyingly repellent a crew as ever peopled Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh's novel of English predators on the loose in Africa...
...some of his disrespectful colonial subjects resisted the royal tax collectors by dumping British tea into Boston Harbor. But it has a much stronger tradition of paying the crown what is due. Though rates are high, from an average of 30% to as much as 75%, the opportunity for mischief is limited: more than 90% of all British income taxes are withheld as payroll deductions...