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...vowed to carry on his fight to save Israel from "Eshkol and his gang." Eshkol himself let it be known that he was willing to welcome back into Mapai any repentant members of Ben-Gurion's prodigal band. Trying hard not to sound smug, Eshkol raised a toast in brandy "L'Hayyim" (to life) and remarked, "Ben-Gurion asked the people to judge. They have judged...
...Your Essay "Commencement 1965: The Generational Conflict" [TIME, June 18], interested me greatly. It seems to me that the only way to contest the smug classification of commencement themes would be to assign the speeches to the poets and the artists, who would not repeat the cliched coaxings and admonitions that you claim the young listener is not listening to. They would exercise their talents of originality, observation and illustration so that the listener may evaluate and re-evaluate his standards...
...Yannatos does not portray the animals, but the attitudes they represent. The animals' feelings are summarized by their way of saying amen, and the score provides the interpretation which the printed page leaves to the reader. For instance, the cat, aided by a marvellously meowing orchestra, says amen in smug anticipation of God's curse on the race of dogs...
...found your review of "The Cool World" smug, pretentious, and worst of all, full of both ignorance and insensitivity. It did a gross injustice to a first-rate film that movingly, and in my experience accurately, shows what it means for a Negro child to grow up (and go "wrong") in a slum...
...Somehow, the point of your essay on Asian hate and discrimination completely escapes me. Despite feeble disclaimers, it smacks of the smug American, caught again in embarrassing racial strife, chortling defensively: "Ah ha! You see, those sanctimonious Asians are just as ugly, prejudiced and hateful as we Americans are!" One wonders whether the American Negro of Selma, Ala., would fully agree with your sweeping judgment that "America's problems are subject to a system of social and legal redress." At best it has been a spotty "system," hundreds of years in coming. There is little pride, and small comfort...