Word: smugness
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...Indian reservation, lured there by the promise that he would be allowed to instruct the other children in the old ways-the rich rituals and traditions of the tribe that were Tom's only legacy from his parents. The school supervisor, however, had a different idea, expressed with smug official tolerance: "Let him learn the new ways first...
...shrine unnecessarily because he is sick of the church's tolerance of the Nazis and disgusted by those who care more about the survival of their landmark than about the victims of the war. The Clown concerns the emotional collapse of a fellow who simply cannot accept the smug new prosperity. A new novel, Group Portrait with Lady, about the effects of the war on a very complex woman, will be published in the spring...
...earlier puzzlements, Ellery Queen used to enjoy tweaking amateur sleuths by stopping short of the final Byzantine solution long enough to issue a "Challenge to the Reader" to match clues and wits with the smug author. In his newest novel, Stanley Ellin goes Queen one better. He offers the reader a refund instead of a contest...
Inevitably, this week's Republican Convention in Miami Beach wears the joyful and slightly smug mien of a coronation. It is proudly programmed to praise the man who is going to give the Republicans four more years at the helm of the nation, and who will perhaps forge the first new alignment of political power in the U.S. since the New Deal. The campaign to follow looms almost as anticlimax, an exercise in the forms of democracy, though it will be the most lavishly financed and highly organized in Republican history. Yet it should also pose the sharpest choice...
...canoeists have grown gradually more isolated from their smug idea of civilization. This episode of brutality and reprisal severs what few connections remain. Drew (Ronny Cox), the most rational of the four, wants to bring the murdered mountaineer downriver to the police. He believes that they will all be pardoned for justifiable homicide. The others doubt it, finally overrule him, and bury the body in the woods, which along with the rest of the area will be flooded for the dam project...