Word: gooder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They think Mountbatten both arrogant and vain, criticize his habit of showing up last at meetings, when they say he grabs attention with just that little extra disturbance that the final arrival can create. They complain that Lady Mountbatten, the former Edwina Ashley, is a Socialist and a "do-gooder." By other critics, Mountbatten will always be remembered as the last Viceroy of India, who cooperated with the Labor government in presiding over the breakup of the British Empire...
...kind Americans are really dumb Americans. Ironic Frenchman Boulle (The Bridge over the River Kwai) is too blasé to join forces openly with embittered Briton Graham (The Quiet American) Greene, but he makes it plain in his book that there is no place for naive, warmhearted U.S. do-gooders in cold-war country. True to his Gallic instincts, he makes his American boob a woman. Patricia is the wife of a Frenchman who expertly runs a rubber plantation in Malaya, not far from Singapore. He married her during a leave in the U.S. and loves her dearly, but while...
...drives that dominate Sloan and Kettering are essentially different from Stagg's. Neither automan has ever been interested in reforming the world in conventional do-gooder style. Both have displayed a knack (which indicates at least a strong unconscious urge) for moneymaking, whereas Stagg, though usually underpaid, has turned down fortunes offered by Hollywood. Yet both Sloan and Kettering have turned, in advanced years, to philanthropy of a highly practical sort: the two are forever commemorated in Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, research arm of Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases (TIME, June 27, 1949). Individually, each...
...three-time Governor (1939-45) and Harry Truman's Ambassador to Peru (1946-48), poured it on incumbent U.S. Senator Albert Gore. "He is drawing $75 a day to represent the people of Tennessee," bellowed Cooper in a stomping cadence, "but he is supporting a oneworld, do-gooder, global-giveaway policy which has squandered the resources of the nation." Why, Gore even voted for reciprocal trade, in spite of the state's textile mills...
Legend of the Lost (Batjac; United Artists) is filled with authentic Technicolor views of Libya, and packed with authentic Hollywood hokum. The movie stars Rossano Brazzi as a no-good do-gooder, Sophia Loren as a bad girl from Timbuktu, and John Wayne as the man who discovers something good about...