Word: pollyannaism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face. When the laughter died down she said snippily, "It's a secret," and then added briskly: "Mr. President, do you mean you didn't want to answer the question?" Franklin Roosevelt, still chuckling, said, Let's see . . . who was the little girl in the stories? Pollyanna? Elizabeth Craig was still uncrushed, her pencil poised...
Says Artist Benton: "Evil and predatory forces are always with us. . . . Humanity must . . . rise up and tear their evil out of them and kill them. For this task, sensual hate, ferocity and brute will are necessary. . . . In these designs there is none of the pollyanna fat that the American people are in the habit of being fed. I have made these pictures for all Americans who will look at them...
...Around 1,000,000: Stevenson's Treasure Island; Du Maurier's Trilby; E. N. Westcott's David Harum; John Fox Jr.'s The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come; Florence Barclay's The Rosary; Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; Pollyanna; The Calling of Dan Matthews; E. M. Hull's The Sheik; America's Part in the World War, by R. J. Beamish and F. A. March, which was published...
...Pollyanna is swell at a strawberry festival, but this...
...convention opened, bald, husky Dr. Stoddard rose to report. He twinkled: "Only a confirmed Pollyanna would say that, as a committee, we have performed our task in a spirit of loving kindness. ..." Listeners looked at each other, wondered when the fireworks would start. They never did start. Long before the end it had dawned on the delegates that there would be no debate, because no one cared to get up and contend that nurture had nothing to do with intelligence. Said the final speaker, University of Chicago's Sociologist Ernest Watson Burgess: "[The] consensus [is] that intelligence, at least...