Word: goodism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cinematically, Blackboard Jungle is no great shakes. The camera work is commonplace and the emotional pace limps. The actors do better. Glenn Ford is a believable symbol of two-fisted do-goodism; Louis Calhern captures that special look of secret decay that can come from breathing chalk dust for 30 years. Better still are the students themselves, some of whom were borrowed from their desks in the Los Angeles public school system. The sense of them there in the background has obviously provided a true emotional standard to which the professional actors, notably Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow, could repair...
...This is a mistake. The truth is there is a very desirable meeting ground between business and Government. It is a plateau that rises above the twin dangers of costly 'do-goodism' in the swamp to the left and shortsighted selfishness in the mountains to the right...
...driving asks to be taken off the usual showplace rounds. They spend part of the day at the shack of a Negro who has made his own daughter pregnant, wind up at a ginmill brothel where the white millionaire learns some facts of Negro life that shake his do-goodism...
...society. It consists of non-Communist and even anti-Communist liberals, mostly middle and upper class business and professional people. . .the same strata in which Benedict Arnold moved so freely during the American Revolution." In the February 12 issue, one writer defines liberalism as "a potpourri of indiscriminant do-goodism trending into statism and blending indistinguishably into treason." In a later issue an article titled "The Red Mole" states that there is no non-Communist Left, "just a Left with Socialists, Communists, Liberals, Humanitarians, and Idealists. . . all mixed together...