Word: smugness
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...Youth's Dissent (New York: Viking Press, paper $1.25) by Mark Gerzon '70, "required reading for the over-thirty generation." The CRIMSON said. "Mark Gerzon's excursion into pop sociology reads like a work commissioned by Look Magazine.... Reaching for the profound insight. Gerzon ends up only with a smug revision of Youth Wants to Know.... Many of these ruminations on the younger generation make sense only from the myopic perspective of an Ivy League existence." Whether you will like the book depends, I, guess, on which journal you find yourself more in sympathy with...
...such periodicals as The New York Times Magazine and Esquire. (Some of Schiller's ramblings, though, do have a sick sense of humor about them: "It was a satanic whim which sent [the Manson tribe to the Polanski home]. But Mr. and Mrs. Middle America need not be smug. That whim could have been saved for their house...
YOUNG: I would first have to make a decision as to whether or not I was going to be more concerned about political manipulation and expedience, or statesmanship. In terms of simple arithmetic, the majority of white Americans have made it and are smug and want to hold on to what they've got. They're fearful. I can play up to those people, exploit them, capitalize on them, and get reelected. Or, I could say, that's not good statesmanship, that's not good for the country, and what I must do is to lead, I must not just...
...Angeles trial judge in a lawsuit that is still in progress. Nixon described as "probably the most extreme judicial decree so far" a Superior Court command that the city school district establish nearly precise racial balance throughout its 561-school system. (Coleman calls Los Angeles "a smug Northern district that hasn't done a thing about the segregation there.") Superior Court Presiding Judge Joseph Wapner, who did not take part in the Los Angeles ruling, found it "appalling that the President would use his office to comment on a case pending in our courts...
Cook, who is white, talked to white Americans and found terror in a section of Boston, fatalistic self-pity in Alabama, smug indifference in Wichita. Of course there are islands of amity and good will, but right now they do not seem to be characteristic of the situation. Concludes Cook: "The final impression is one of sameness: universal opposition to busing children to once-black schools, annoyance at what strikes whites as special treatment for blacks seeking education or jobs, reluctance to admit that local problems have local origins. Whites prefer to put the blame elsewhere. They...