Word: smug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...travel agency. The same study reported that Cook's image was that of a stable but stodgy and relatively expensive company. In that sense, the travel agency that started it all in the early Victorian era, 127 years ago, has become a sleeping king of the travel industry. Smug and content with its middle-class clientele, it has ignored both old competitors and the newcomers to the business who have harnessed the boom of cheap package tours...
...self-righteous, indeed, a bullying nation," declared Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn in an address at Fresno State. "You have warned us that our social and political institutions show signs of congealing into unresponsive and bureaucratic establishments-you have caught our affluent society in the act of becoming a smug society." Speaking at Connecticut's Fairfield University, Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams paid students a high compliment. "Through the scientific genius of my generation," he said, "we have made the world a neighborhood. Now, through the moral and spiritual genius of yours, we will make it a brotherhood...
...burden of the tale is the usual pursuit and chase. What gives the slender story distinction is its unusual style and attitude. It is all rendered from the self-righteously smug "That's the way it was" point of view of the heroine half a century later. Thus the violence is imbued with a bigger-than-camp Bonnie and Clyde quality: the stock two-dimensional figures of the familiar western landscape become disfigured here with a three-dimensional reality as limbs are chopped off and buckshot imbeds itself painfully beneath facial skin...
...poor-mouthing," Kennedy evoked a new sense of self-awareness and self-realization--more like Teddy Roosevelt than any 20th century Democratic President. The promise of dignity and security he held out to his "special constituency" was matched by his attempt to teach the well-off the perils of smug self-isolation...
...Cookridge, Philby's onetime colleague in the British Secret Service, who is now a multivolume espionage historian, provides an account that rings with spooky authenticity in some details. He says flatly that Philby sailed from Beirut harbor on the Polish ship Dalmatova. Philby himself, in his smug, annoyingly charming autobiography, refuses to say, since his Soviet friends might want to use the route again...