Word: pollyannaism
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...flash back to Hollywood's supposedly Pollyanna past. Rocky Balboa in the original Rocky: he lost. Jake La Motta in Raging Bull: he went nuts. Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees: he died...
...American Indians be blended with the traditional marvels of Disney entertainment that will also include Mickey, Minnie and the gang? "Serious fun," Disney chairman Michael Eisner calls it, and his experts rightly point to such a blend in Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. "This is not to be a Pollyanna view of America," insists Robert Weis, a principal Disney imagineer. "But we want people to leave the park feeling good about their country...
That squares with the experiences of Donoghue's colleagues. "It would be Pollyanna of me to say that sexism doesn't exist," Randa Haines comments. "But I've been very lucky. I haven't faced any real discrimination." Nor has Bigelow, who says, "I've never felt I've been discriminated against. There's been great support from the men I work with...
POLLY (NBC, Nov. 12, 7 p.m. EST). Will a batch of new songs and The Cosby Show's Keshia Knight Pulliam be able to improve on the old Disney film about an orphan with a cheery outlook? Don't be a Pollyanna...
...comfort to the Cassandras, nobody -- Cassandra nor Pollyanna -- predicted the 1980s economy correctly. The decade began with the deepest recession since the Great Depression, engineered by the Federal Reserve Board to purge inflation. The early Reagan deficits helped stimulate the economy back into expansion -- a classic exercise in Keynesianism of the sort the President has spent his political career deploring (and still deplores, given half a chance...