Word: pollyannaism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Handbook. "But what if some friends take your sister's bike? They strip it and sell the parts. Where does your loyalty lie?" In the age of rip-off and radical capitalism, such a dilemma is not uncommon. In reply, the Handbook, unfortunately, takes the tone of Pollyanna rather than the police blotter. It counsels, "Just remember to look at both sides. Listen carefully to the arguments and then do what you believe to be right...
Married. Hayley Mills, 25, dimpled Disney child star who won a special Oscar for her 1960 performance in Pollyanna; and Roy Boulting, 57, British producer-director and Hayley's longtime chum; she for the first time, he for the fourth; in Cap-d'Ail, France...
...operated on two years ago for cataracts, she carefully stayed out of sight while her husband of 33 years, Bandleader Buddy Rogers, 64, announced the re-release of a dozen of her old silent films. Among them: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), Daddy Long Legs (1919), and Pollyanna...
Psychic Catastrophe. In short, Erikson's thinking takes in all of life-its struggles, victories and defeats-and sees it as a gradual unfolding. It is an optimistic philosophy, but he is no pollyanna. At every turn, he believes, there is as much chance for psychic catastrophe as for emotional growth. "When I talk about hope and basic trust," he says, "I am not referring to good manners or to the niceties of personality, but to the minimum conditions for human survival...
...visions, as in his plaints, Reich is a peculiar blend of Vance Packard and Pollyanna, a colloidal suspension of William Buckley, William Blake and Herbert Marcuse in pure applesauce. It can be justly said of Reich, as Dr. Johnson once said of Thomas Gray, that "he was dull, but he was dull in a new way, and that made people think him great...