Word: gooders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor government clerk, Togliatti now was building himself a villa among the rich near fashionable Porto Santo Stefano, and-politically-continued his do-gooder tactics. If filling-station attendants were underpaid, if a bridge fell down, if water was cut off from Rome, it was the Communists who led the protest. Faced with a milk shortage, Togliatti could be heard to say earnestly: "For a whole week now, there has not been enough milk in the cafes to make a cappuccino. That is terrible." He kept insisting that he had no intention of imposing Communism on Italy, that he only...
...South, with the intention of dispatching them to New York City to correct the deplorable conditions existing in Harlem. We are sure that the good people of New York will greet our crusaders with the same enthusiasm that the people of Mississippi have displayed toward their do-gooder visitors from Ohio...
...Lehman, who died last week at 85, was a most unlikely sort of politician. He could not remember a name or a face. A small, somewhat heavy man, he had little humor, and almost no time for the pleasantries ordinarily associated with politics. He was a tireless do-gooder, given to rambling speeches about the virtues of liberalism. He had none of the classic grace of Franklin Roosevelt, none of the earthy charm of Al Smith. Yet in his time he was as popular with New York voters as either F.D.R. or the Happy Warrior -and he outlasted them both...
...Curiously, he is not. Partly, the reason is that in the Philippines, as elsewhere, popularity is based on personality rather than on policies. After two years in office, "Da-dong" Macapagal is just not very lik able. Filipinos are dismayed by his lack of humor, and ridicule his do-gooder proclamations calling for "moral regeneration." He is criticized for putting all his friends from his home province of Pampanga into administration jobs, and the charge is hurtful because most other Filipinos think the people of Pampanga are idle, spendthrift and treacherous. Says a Manila businessman: "Filipinos elect Presidents...
...heavy publicity affected Archie? Nope, says Burke, who revealed that after a story in the Times last year dwelling on his personal virtues Archie came to him and asked if he "gave the impression of being a do-gooder." Perish the thought...