"Pollyannaism" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1975 May 9, Germaine Greer, “At the U.N., Women’s Year ‘of Disgrace’”, in New York Times",
          "text": "[…] some good guys at the Secretariat decided that 1975 should be International Women’s Year. ¶ It is typical of the special brand of United Nations Pollyannaism that they did so regardless of the fact that Secretariat hiring policies are grossly discriminatory.",
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          "ref": "1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994",
          "text": "I realize one self-evaluation is as true as another and that my mother’s relentless Pollyannism was a less melancholy and more efficient way of muddling through than my gloom or my sister’s saturnine honesty.",
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