Word: smug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ASSUMED I wouldn't like Paul Simon. I didn't like Simon and Garfunkel. Arthur was as precious as anyone deliberately called Artie could be. I found their music smug and overconfident; it represented the worst of the thoroughly reprehensible middle sixties "folkie" tradition. It was all there in "Homeward Bound;" its singer's over-inflated, self-pitying view of himself was combined with a banal excursion into sentiment. By the time S and G had reached the self-conscious artiness of "The Boxer," they had dissipated their creative impulse, aad were selling two million records at a crack...
...home run nevertheless. Roth takes a myth that everyone knows is destroyed anyway, and picking apart the baseball ethos lovingly, savoring its madness and its magnetism, he betrays an exasperated affection for it that he may not have felt when he began. He leaves us laughing but wistful, smug but reverent, and with a musty, clinging air of ambivalence about lost American dreams. Perhaps it's despair folded over, cynicism gone hysterical, or a commercial fake, but Smitty takes us on a sympathetic journey...
...creative evolution exalted the spirit of man and his ability to find basic reality through intuition. Then, in 1905, Jacques and Raïssa, now newlyweds, happened into a life-changing friendship with Novelist Léon Bloy, a wild, irascible spirit and passionate Catholic who preached to his smug culture that faith and social conscience were inseparable. "Money," Bloy once wrote, "is the blood of the poor." Both of the Maritains were baptized as Catholics...
...kidnaping and murder are ever political imperatives−and State of Siege says they are the direct, perhaps inevitable results of oppression−then this man Santore, excellently portrayed by Montand as smug, calculating, amoral and dangerous, deserves his fate. The movie ends a little too tidily, with a new AID official being greeted at the airport and the sense of a tide nearly too strong to stem. But in the expression of someone in the crowd−probably a member of the radical group−watching the AID man disembark, we are also shown continued defiance. And rage...
...third of its revenues. The keystone of this division is Luria Bros. & Co., the world's largest scrap-metal firm. Ablon, a onetime business instructor at Ohio State who came to Ogden from Luria in 1962, is satisfied with the conglomerate's progress but far from smug about it. Having got Ogden moving again, Ablon dryly remarks: "The most positive thing we can do now is not to blow...