Word: goodism
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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...
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...
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...