Word: smug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COURSE of last week's strike by the Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union, there were plenty of smug comments about why it would be unsuccessful and why it was an improperly drastic action to take against Harvard. The legitimacy of striking against the University--especially on mere financial grievances--was questioned. Actually, in view of the circumstances, the action was entirely appropriate...
...fact, her size and sex has helped her gain the edge on smug employers and administrators. When I first saw Lisa in action, she was explaining to the Harvard dean of Freshmen, F. Skiddy von Stade, '37,--twice her size--why a group of striking hospital workers had disrupted a class at the Graduate School of Design. The Dean was no match for Lisa's calm and intelligent reasoning. "I have no qualms about disrupting your University's classes, it is clear to me that the dispute at the hospital is as important to the education of your students...
With a name like Suffragette and its theme of the woman's struggle against society's smug complacency, the play is assured of attention from the Harvard-Radcliffe community. But Birnbaum and Rubins undertook the production for reasons other than its timeliness...
...several structural innovations in musical theater. One of these cleverly incorporates musical theater's most traditional element--the stock character. Alf and Charlie, two seedy English music hall singers and the only non-historical characters in the play, appear immediately after the overture and return periodically to personify the smug complacent attitude of Parliament and most of 19th century England toward the women's demands. Through the motif of 19th century music hall songs, they provide a constant mocking commentary on the women's efforts. Their theme song is a snide routine entitled, "A Woman's Place...
...blinders," as Berger puts it, many patients notice that their facial expressions can put people off. A TV scriptwriter being treated in both individual and group therapy watched a tape of herself made during a group session, then dissolved in tears. "What bothered me," she told Berger, "was this smug expression I have on my face-as if I know it all, and I really don't." In other cases, the camera may pick up a patient's hidden fears. One young woman reacted with a look of sheer terror when she was called "a sexy babe...