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...generally so smug about the "plight of women?" It truly exists. If men did not oppress women, there would need be no feminists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1953 | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...with The Second Sex (weight: 2¾ Ibs.). For Sophocles' measures stand for just about everything that Author de Beauvoir considers most hateful in human life. As she sees it, the male's conquest of the earth, the sea etc. is just an analogue of his smug conquest of the little woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady with a Lance | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...Frightfully Smug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

Every week I read your "Letters-to-the Editor" column. No matter who they are, or for whom they are, or whom they are against, the writers of these letters have one thing in common; all of them are frightfully smug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

Poor Adlai! Here is a man who prepares intelligent speeches, presents them in the best diction, and gets chided for sounding "too good" and not having the "down to earth" approach ... I say he has the right idea and to hell with the Taft clique and smug Republican governors who sit on their thrones and moan for his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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