Word: smugness
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Court Interference. Nixon shrewdly made use of some black complaints when he denounced the "smug paternalism" of whites who assume that a black school is automatically inferior to a white one. That assumption, he said, "inescapably carries racist overtones." Black separatists, in fact, do favor having their own schools, and some others have become skeptical of integration as a panacea. But most blacks still want it, or at least demand a genuine choice in the matter (see EDUCATION). Marian Wright Edelman, director of the Washington Research Project, found Nixon's "appeal to black separatists' feelings" clever but irrelevant...
...harassed, crab-grassed hypocrite is the equivalent of the 19th century view of moral wastrels disporting in the wicked city. There is indeed a crack in the picture window, but Loving demonstrates that if it obscures the vision of those looking out, it is far more distorting to smug voyeurs peering...
...ashamedly supposed to. A modestly budgeted film without a name star, The Lawyer has magnificent pretensions. It seeks to analyze the dilemma of freedom of the press v. a defendant's pretrial rights, probe the personality of an ambitious young trial lawyer and lay bare the smug, self-righteous rural soul (which suffers from overexposure anyway). The result is a demolition derby that threatens to wreck everyone in sight...
...Still Harvard can scarcely afford to be smug. Overconfidence lost them the first contest with the Quakers, and almost a second against Northeastern a fortnight ago. It is a possibility, although some-what faint, that the same will happen tonight-that Penn will fully expect to duplicate its upset, and that Harvard will feel that it cannot possibly happen twice...
...statement of fear but rather a kind of smug "We're winning spectacularly now but wait till you see us at Harvard" line. Penn is ready, and Penn is extremely confident...