Word: pollyannas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Enter the professors. William C. Green (M.I.T.): "I just think it's a damn good long vaudeville skit." Frederick Packard (Harvard): "I don't think it's a great play. Maybe it's not even a play. But it's very good theatre. . . .It certainly is not Pollyanna-ish; and I suspect that the play's appeal to people twenty-five years old or under is due to the fact that youth has a tendency to prefer the disagreeable." Marston Balch (Tufts) said that "the play is clearly allegorical: Godot is one's goal, and everyone has his own individual...
...outstanding visiting professors who have been here this year. The Rev George A. Buttirck's first term in Memorial Church for example, went entirely un-noticed. These are only a few suggestions. But more insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the University, and less of the Pollyanna approach that in every day in every way Harvard is growing bigger and better, would have made for more interesting reading...
...your fine articles on Billy Graham [Oct. 25] and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale [Nov. 1]. Dr. Peale attracts thousands with seven psychiatrists and his Pollyanna Gospel. What lady would want to "relax and be a bag!" Graham faces the facts of life and preaches the Gospel with hellfire. It wins the respect of millions. I'll take Billy Graham. (THE REV.) JOHN R. STEVENSON Burns Presbyterian Church Burns...
...Theater and People Are Funny, and well ahead of both Jack Benny and Dragnet. Most of the credit for the show's surprising success goes to ex-Sunday School Teacher Storm, a stable, sunshiny girl who says: "I guess I've always been a kind of Pollyanna. You make the best of a situation and have a good time doing it." Born Josephine Owaissa Cottle, she changed her name and got out of her native Texas by winning a nationwide Gateway to Hollywood movie contest which asked: "Who will be Gale Storm and Terry Belmont?" Says Gale...