Word: smugness
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With a name like Suffragette and its theme of the woman's struggle against society's smug complacency, the play is assured of attention from the Harvard-Radcliffe community. But Birnbaum and Rubins undertook the production for reasons other than its timeliness...
...blinders," as Berger puts it, many patients notice that their facial expressions can put people off. A TV scriptwriter being treated in both individual and group therapy watched a tape of herself made during a group session, then dissolved in tears. "What bothered me," she told Berger, "was this smug expression I have on my face-as if I know it all, and I really don't." In other cases, the camera may pick up a patient's hidden fears. One young woman reacted with a look of sheer terror when she was called "a sexy babe...
...Commendatore and Agnes Moore-head's Dona Ana are all that could be asked. In the title role, Ricardo Montalban is superb, no libertine at all, but Shaw incarnate, with his puritan passion for exposing hypocrisy and cant. If all our minds are freer of the pollution of smug platitudes, it is because Shaw, with his Jovian laughter, helped to clear them. -T.E.Kalem
...embodied the critic. In the late sixties, perhaps influenced by Liv Ullman, his lady at the time. Bergman warmed a bit and granted a few interviews. Even then it seemed he felt an interview was a chore, a quite unpleasant side effect of fame to be conducted with the smug assurance of the true artist...
...America's image has become tarnished in world opinion, the reality behind that image had decayed at home. On the surface, the Eisenhower but accomplishments are meaningless except in relation to needs, and the needs have not been met, despite Mr. Nixon's smug assurances to the contrary...