Word: goodism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense today. The chief task now is to meet new challenges, like the tough economic competition from Europe and East Asia and the combustible nationalism of a host of small nations. In such a world, none of the past approaches to American policy -- from Woodrow Wilson's global do-goodism to Henry Kissinger's balance-of-power realpolitik -- can be counted on to provide the answers...
Annual "bests" and "mosts" express a human instinct for putting things in order. This year's crop also reflects a shift from a time of ostentation to one of restraint, unease and do-goodism -- plus flashes of camp and cheekiness...
...earnestness was much in evidence in 1990, with the return of the spirit of do-goodism. The environment became the last best cause, the ultimate guilt- free issue. In 1990 it seemed that everything had to be either biodegradable or cholesterol free. The return, once again, of '60s fashions on Seventh Avenue and '60s rhetoric on college campuses betokened a revival of activism...