Word: pollyannaism
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...could not be far away because he had seen his first robin, his first crocus. But psychologically the rest of Washington was still in the depths of winter. "Once more," observed Pundit Walter Lippmann, "we have come to a period of discouragement after a few months of buoyant hope. Pollyanna is silenced and Cassandra is doing all the talking. . . . Within the Administration itself there is a notable loss of self-confidence which is reflected in leadership that is hesitant and confused...
LOCARNO (Dec. 1, 1.925) set Europe off on a decade tinged with "pactomania." The Locarno Pact and sweet "Spirit of Locarno" (which assumed that Germany had kissed France and made up) produced a diplomatic expanding universe of larger and feebler Pollyanna conferences until in 1933 every nation was represented in London at the World Economic Conference. Among statesmen Benito Mussolini was almost alone in openly predicting Pollyanna Diplomacy's inevitable doom. Said he: "It is absurd to expect even the smallest achievement from 66 nations all talking at once...
MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD-Selma Lagerlöf-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). For human character, as for meat, salt preservative. Selma Lagerlöf is an old lady but she is salty. Best-loved Swedish writer, she is no Pollyanna but a wideawake female citizen whose rose-colored spectacles sometimes conceal but rarely lessen the knowing twinkle in her eye. Far enough removed from her own childhood (she is 75) to be forgivably sentimental about it, she writes with her accustomed sub-humorous kindliness of the little girl she was. Readers who missed the first volume of her reminiscences (Marbacka...
...Pollyanna (1913) Eleanor Steward...
...important thing is not whether Herbert Hoover or John Garner is the greater authority on finance and legislation but whether directness and frankness is more likely to put us on the road to economic recovery than their Pollyanna statements and hiding the truth. . . . There's nothing the matter with the finances and credit of the U. S. except gross mismanagement...