Word: pollyanna
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...other time other than the playoffs is this blend of inevitable heartbreak and Pollyanna attitude more apparent than on Opening Day. Just to get a taste, imagine you’re a fly on the wall last Sunday in a particularly enthusiastic room of Sox fans...
...think Bobbie had alienated people in a certain kind of way with all the surprises,” Erlien says. “I think Carolyn Turk is less the Pollyanna: ‘you’re going to love this, this is terrific,’ that Bobbie always did. She’s much more matter-of-fact and ‘here...
...Swain says, she "turned from a Pollyanna into a Cassandra" as her research into a book criticizing racial preferences made her aware of the spread of what she calls "the new white nationalism," a form of racial extremism more dangerous than the Ku Klux Klan because of its veneer of erudition and mastery of the Internet. Groups such as former Klansman David Duke's National Organization for European American Rights and the National Association of White People eschew the discredited notion of white supremacy. Indeed, they don't claim that whites are superior to anyone else and may even...
...When college rolled around for the eldest--with three more tuitions to come--she and her husband thought, We'll have to sell the house. They had to cut back on luxuries, but Dunne says the skimping was worth it. "I don't want to be a Pollyanna, but this is great the way it worked out. How much fun to enjoy your children when you're young...
...ratings are still issued about as often as famine warnings. Out of some 7,500 current recommendations on S&P 500 stocks, only 1% are "sells," according to Zacks Investment Research. "Analysts are the most relentlessly optimistic people in the world," says NASAA executive director Marc Beauchamp. "They make Pollyanna seem like Hamlet." Some regulators are calling for industry guidelines to expand analysts' conflict-of-interest disclosures...