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...theater. It has too many characters to keep it tidy or taut; its clash of viewpoints never quite boils up into drama; its culminating melodrama is clumsily handled and unexciting. But it remains an honest approach to a vital subject. And if it sounds sharp warnings, it offers no smug answers; it is evidence given in the witness box, rather than a resounding verdict handed down from the bench...
...frenetic clamor for meat, soap and automobiles, and disown their offspring to obtain an apartment? . . . Not only have we an ample supply of meat, but thousands of Canadians are donating meat coupons to the Canadian Meat Board to help feed the starving Europeans. . . . I have no wish to be smug, but surely if Canada can do it the U.S., with an even vaster supply of foodstuffs and materials, should be able...
When little Jimmy Jeans was born in 1877, science was smug and dull. It considered the universe a mere machine governed by well-known laws. When Sir James Hopwood Jeans (O.M.; M.A.; D.Sc.; LL.D.; D.L.; F.R.S.) died in England last week at 69, the universe had once again become a mystery, and- thanks to war-conscripted science-a dangerous mystery...
Hooray for Drs. Maskin and Uhler ! [TIME, Aug. 12]. To other adjectives describing many Army psychiatrists they might well have added smug, arrogant, bigoted, vindictive and sadistic...
...profess annoyance at our temerity; we condemn your imbecility. You are smug in your complacency; we are abashed by your shamelessness. . . . To cavil further is futile. We trust that time, as it shrinks your purse, may modify your niggardly and anti-social propensities...