Word: smug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harassed, crab-grassed hypocrite is the equivalent of the 19th century view of moral wastrels disporting in the wicked city. There is indeed a crack in the picture window, but Loving demonstrates that if it obscures the vision of those looking out, it is far more distorting to smug voyeurs peering...
...Still Harvard can scarcely afford to be smug. Overconfidence lost them the first contest with the Quakers, and almost a second against Northeastern a fortnight ago. It is a possibility, although some-what faint, that the same will happen tonight-that Penn will fully expect to duplicate its upset, and that Harvard will feel that it cannot possibly happen twice...
...statement of fear but rather a kind of smug "We're winning spectacularly now but wait till you see us at Harvard" line. Penn is ready, and Penn is extremely confident...
...Smug...
...this earnest effort serves a useful purpose. It illustrates how an erudite Dudley House senior, with the best intentions in the world, can let admiration for his peers lead him astray. Reaching for the profound insight, Gerzon ends up only with a smug revision of Youth Wants to Know. Here is a fairly representative passage: "With increased cultural communications today's well educated young people cannot accept meanings and opinions. They have access to too many thinkers and have too great a degree of mobility for the ethnocratic answers given them in childhood to remain satisfactory...