Word: pollyannaism
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...Just how much of this Pollyanna Eisenhower stuff do we have to take? No man, however noble, could be as naive as Ike is being billed. His backers are not green; they are just as experienced in politics as Taft and his crew. Please know that Mr. & Mrs. U.S.A. have enough brains to realize that Taft and MacArthur are just as high-principled and concerned over the fate of our world as Eisenhower...
Author Bromfield was not always so alert at spotting the termites in the American grain. Interviewed at a homecoming in 1933, he cried: "What do I like about America? Everything! ... We have a Pollyanna's Paradise ... I went to a movie, walked through the five-&-ten, ate peanuts and felt at home again...
...minute show ended with everyone misty-eyed and agreeing that money can't buy happiness. Sentiments like these, flowering in Faith Baldwin's prose, have earned her a place in Connecticut with a 22-room house and a pool. But she sometimes broods because critics label her Pollyanna. "The reason my stories always end happily is because the magazines prefer happy endings," she explains. Actually, she argues, her plots often have a high tragic content: "I've always jumped the gun on my themes-I did a book on alcoholism, for example, which wasn't popular...
...blonde heroine herself is properly all sweetness & light, the prince is just what romantic maidens pray for and the cruel stepmother is wicked enough to make Judith Anderson look like Pollyanna. These three characters are drawn in an attempt at literal likeness that the best technique of animation never brings off without a certain stiffness. Nonetheless, the spell is never broken. The rest of the human characters, including the sourpuss stepsisters, move flexibly in delightful caricature, and the animals are pure Disney...
Compared with Coach Leahy, Stu Holcomb sounded like Pollyanna. Ten of Purdue's eleven 1947 starters were back this year, including Quarterback Bob De-Moss, a fine passer, and Halfback Harry Szulborski, who averaged better than six yards a try in 1947. That left Holcomb only one understandable gripe: a schedule that pits Purdue against Notre Dame, Northwestern and Michigan in the first three weeks...