Word: pollyannas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history of the war is all too painfully graven in false optimism. Again and again, U.S. hopes have been raised by officials armed with gleaming statistics and pollyanna rhetoric. First the U.S. "turned the corner" in Viet Nam; then there was "light at the end of the tunnel," "the enemy was on the run," and the attrition rates, the kill ratios, and all the other jargon of victory rolled on and on. Since they have been proved wrong so often in the past, U.S. experts are careful not to parade their latest positive assessments; indeed...
Actress Hayley Mills, now 22, spent her childhood and adolescence being tomboy or saccharine in films like Tiger Bay and Pollyanna. For the past two years, she has been living with Producer Roy Boulting, 55. "I could never fall in love with anyone unless first I had enormous admiration for him," she says. "I never met a young man of my own age for whom I had this feeling." Joanna Steichen was 26 when she married Photographer Edward Steichen, who was 80. That was nine years ago,.and Mrs. Steichen says she has never regretted it. "In many ways...
...gravely sick is too simplistic a view. After the first spastic reaction to the Kennedy murder (see PRESS), most commentators rejected a blanket diagnosis of disease while at the same time refusing to completely absolve U.S. society and civilization for what had happened. John Kenneth Galbraith, no Pollyanna when it comes to national flaws, observed last week that "the greater danger in our day than violence is unfocused selfcriticism. Nothing so serves as an excuse from reality...
...Pollyanna Adams. Even Hubert Humphrey turned snappish. "You won't make this country better," he said, "by leading from fear, despair and doubt." If some "spilt-milk politicians," he added, in a speech prepared for a dairymen's convention in Kansas City, Mo., "would spend more time getting on with the job and less cussing out the cows-or crying crocodile tears about everything in general-we would all be better off." Indeed, if anything nettles Humphrey, it is Kennedy's implication that his "politics of joy" is frivolous and smug. "Hubert," said a sign...
That led to her long-term Disney contract-and Pollyanna, The Parent Trap, The Castaways, Summer Magic, The Moon Spinners and That Darn Cat. "Even though the stories weren't very real and the characters were essentially cardboard," she says, "I was learning the mechanics of my craft, and had a chance to indulge myself." But not too much. "If I got good notices for something," she recalls, "my family just said, That's very nice, dear. Now go and make your...