Word: pollyannaism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of its ambitious designs, Amnesty has its limitations. White observes that "it would be Pollyanna-ish to say that we're always successful." It is of course impossible for Amnesty to find out about all the political prisoners in the world. After imprisoning someone for political reasons, governments are naturally not anxious to publicize the matter and usually do their best to conceal it. "We are only handling a miniscule amount compared with the problem," White concedes. Amnesty must still reject even some of those cases that come to its attention, due to sheer volume. "We're successful with...
This personal independence is reflected in what he writes. As his growing number of readers* know, Raspberry has emerged as the most respected black voice on any white U.S. newspaper. Neither a Pollyanna nor a raging militant, he considers the merits rather than the ideology of any issue. Not surprisingly, his judgments regularly nettle the Pollyannas and militants...
...been more than fulfilling the traditional task of addressing just about any law school, local bar association or legal group that invites him (estimated totals for the 18 months, since be became president-elect: 200 speeches and 225,000 miles traveled). Unlike some of his predecessors, however, doling out Pollyanna platitudes. He sticks to his mission: to shake up the A.B.A. and the entire legal profession...
...return to her work difficult. If you reread them with any other purpose than to find a safe passage back to a neutral world, you are disappointed. A serious re-reading usually finds the plot as soppy as Love Story and the once beloved characters about as interesting as Pollyanna...
...once, with perhaps a trace of bitterness, that she has always been too busy working to "just sit back" and think of herself or her "ideas," but she does seem to have her own vision of America. Reports TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo: "Her view of life is that of Pollyanna going steady with Horatio Alger. With hard work and the old dependable virtues, there is nowhere you can't go. That's the way it was for her and Dick, and the America she sees agrees with...