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...appreciate: a bank robbery. He baits a strapping porter named José Dolores (Evaristo Marquez) to anger, then decides he is the man to lead the black bandits. With Machiavellian guile he hides the bandits in a jungle village, reveals their location to the Portuguese military, then watches with smug satisfaction as self-preservation grows into open rebellion. The Portuguese are thrown out, Dolores' army is persuaded to lay down its arms in favor of a white-colonist government, and Walker is off to more devilry. Lest anyone miss the point, Walker tells Dolores: "I don't suppose...
...professors have given their ideas and the scholarship to the government, arguing that the use to which their work is put is not their concern. Finally, there is the political market. This is much like the moral market, on a national scale. It has produced a smug, self-assured nation, confident of its own superiority over all other forms of government, knowing that it has earned the right to be free, and to interfere in other countries' affairs...
...market put Nixon through the fire, in the Checkers incident, in his other crises, in the California gubernatorial election. Nixon was forced to outgrow his former self, to earn his way in the world- and earning, after all, is the American way. The sanctimonious Nixon we see today is smug because he knows that he has earned what he has, and earned it the hard way. But Wills believes that this smugness is really a cover for an inner self contempt. The self made man, he says, are really "cramped full of pretense, diminished things- Dick Nixons." Men who have...
...Spurious Spiro, the smirking, spleenful spokesman of the sated, smug, self-satisfied society...
...What a monster of smug, smirking, fatuous arrogance! May he be stripped to his shorts and forced to run the gauntlet down Seventh Avenue, pelted with eggs and tomatoes by mobs of jeering Women's Liberationists...