Word: smugness
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...between Catholics and Protestants on school integration has been troubling Boston religious leaders interested in unity, but they have been reluctant to bring the split into the open. Richard Cardinal Cushing has supported the Boston School Committee's contention that the stay-out was harmful, practically siding with the smug bigotry of Committeewoman Louise Day Hicks. Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes, on the other hand, has sided with the boycott leaders. One of the movement's co-chairmen is Canon James P. Breeden, a Negro Episcopalian minister. Many Protestant clergymen gave their churches for use as freedom schools...
...characterizations benefit from revealing gestures. They enhance Laura Esterman's fine performance as the minister's wife; she smooths her skirt self-consciously as she utters smug platitudes--and grasps her husband'; sleeve distractedly after falling in love with Dick Dudgeon...
...quick images, Maximov slashes a scene in place. His hero, hating the smug, virtuous world, rejects the sympathy of the few kind and decent people he encounters because it is rage itself, he comes to understand, that keeps him alive. "I defend myself against them," he thinks in a rare moment of self-understanding, "with all the fury accumulated in years of wolfish life." Eventually he gives in and accepts society, because he realizes that, bad as it is, it is redeemed by individual acts of humanity...
...permanently limited. Total corporate ownership, depending upon how well individual sales go, could be held to 30% or less. The lower the better! This would create an economic monument to American taxpayers, additional dignity for competent TV A employees, and several measures of in security for the politically oriented, smug, libertine bureaucrats...
...HACK, by Wilfrid Sheed. A kind of Miss Lonelyhearts in reverse, the hero is a successful writer of sentimental pap for Catholic publications, who realizes, with horror, that he is losing his sincerity and developing writer's cramp in the smug swamps of suburbia...