Word: pollyannaism
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...TEMPER: "I would be less than human if I were always a Pollyanna...
...sounded to the opening prayer than Johnson claimed the floor for his pretentious speech on recession. "I believe it is essential," he cried, "that responsible leaders prepare now to meet any eventuality. I should think that can be done without any foreboding prophecies of gloom or doom, or any Pollyanna predictions that prosperity is just around some ever-receding corner...
Actually, the Digest cracked its boudoir boycott spectacularly in July 1956 with an article called "What Wives Don't Know About Sex." A flood of letters from readers suggested that do-it-yourself sex could be as gripping a topic for Digestion as the magazine's Pollyanna sagas of man against wilderness or science against cancer-the kind of uplift dear to Digest Editor (and Founder) DeWitt Wallace, son of a Presbyterian preacher. After a clinical follow-up piece on "What Husbands Don't Know About Sex," the magazine last June invited its readers to join Gynecologist...
...extent, Wolfe stands alone in this attitude of affirmation, which is partially tragic and essentially "realistic," but on the whole, optimistic about the value of living and the inward strength of his country. "You know that I am no Pollyanna now, or that I think God's in his heaven. I don't and I agree with Ecclesiastes that the saddest day of a man's life is the day of his birth--but after that, I think the next saddest day is the day of his death...
...every Wedding-Ring Dodger and Faithless Mate, however devious, rises above the blighted past ("Is he remembering her when he kisses me?") and, overcoming the doom-fraught future ("A lifetime of not knowing"), concludes his or her chronicle on a hopeful note. "Sure, we're Pollyanna," shrugs Nina Dorrance, young (35) editor of superslick True Story (circ. 2,573,543). "But that's the way people...