Word: mischiefism
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...Mary Tyler Moore, she has tackled the play with aplomb. Her eyes are pools of pain across which imps of mischief sail. Her charm could heat igloos. Without taking a single step, she has made the transition from TV to the stage in perfect stride. -T.E.Kalem
...shells, weak, rattling bags of bones, soft, flabby masses of obedient matter. An the care always amounted to total fear and control. One of the guards explains that "Fear kept them in line...Keep them looking over their shoulder for that boot and they don't think of much mischief. That was treatment...
...shall know a civilization by its common customs, and if these are mostly absurd, then it is likely that the society's larger principles have gone awry as well. The modern world's institutionalized lunacies are, of course, symbolized by the lavishly subsidized think tank and the mischief it creates...
GOLD: Misia's career was making mischief. Then a woman could not show that she ruled the roost. Today Misia would be a committee of women. FIZDALE: Some of her life is not well documented. However we knew, or came to know, all the people around her. It was like a puzzle, or detective work. GOLD: Now we are like horses at the gate. We have been watching Balanchine's ballets since they were performed at the Central High School of Needle Trades. His world is a little island of paradise. We are starting on a book about...
Richard Nixon's opening to China and his detente with the Soviets were, in their way, creative and peaceful substitutes for crisis. Power balances changed and much of the world paused in other mischief to watch and wait...