Word: goodism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coolidge maintains that "encouraging graduate students to involve themselves in the museum is not do-goodism. Rather it is a calculated response to a basic change in the nature of the American art world." He argues that the art historian today must be a generalist, ready to teach a course, write a book or put together an exhibition. Accordingly he has tried to make the Fogg a homogeneous community where there is no distinction between curator and professor or grad student and junior staff member...
...road to espionage is rarely paved with good intentions. Most of the "agents" working the dark corners of the cold war were lured there by simple greed or forced there by blackmail. But in the case of French Spy Georges Paáques, the motive was sheer do-goodism, complicated by a dash of intellectual vanity...