Word: smug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anything but chained, the Duck pokes more fun at the man it calls "le grand Charletan" than any other French publication. Nor does it spare anyone else who merits attack. Last week the eight-page weekly celebrated 50 years of ridiculing the high and the mighty, the smug and the pretentious in French life. Proud of the Duck's surviving without mellowing, staffers boast: "The duck still has all its teeth...
C.C.N.Y., always among the top five teams in the country, was just as smug as last year. But when the blades stopped flashing at the end of the first round, C.C.N.Y. stopped sneering, for Harvard was on top 6-3. In epee -- supposedly C.C.N.Y.'s great strength and the Crimson's weakness -- Harvard took all three bouts...
...TIME's patronizing account of Appalachia [Nov. 5] and its smug assumption that it is desirable to "transform the mountaineer into a middle-class American" makes my blood boil. One of the great glories of America is the wide diversity of people to be found within its borders. Homogenizing our population is deadening our culture as surely as leveling the Rocky Mountains and the Grand Canyon would ruin our scenery...
...vowed to carry on his fight to save Israel from "Eshkol and his gang." Eshkol himself let it be known that he was willing to welcome back into Mapai any repentant members of Ben-Gurion's prodigal band. Trying hard not to sound smug, Eshkol raised a toast in brandy "L'Hayyim" (to life) and remarked, "Ben-Gurion asked the people to judge. They have judged...
...Your Essay "Commencement 1965: The Generational Conflict" [TIME, June 18], interested me greatly. It seems to me that the only way to contest the smug classification of commencement themes would be to assign the speeches to the poets and the artists, who would not repeat the cliched coaxings and admonitions that you claim the young listener is not listening to. They would exercise their talents of originality, observation and illustration so that the listener may evaluate and re-evaluate his standards...