Word: smugness
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...wary eye. The Russians were represented by 1984 men, whom history had given nothing but a theory of history. Jive and Marxism simply do not dig each other. It is Capote's achievement that the pseudo-sophistication of jive comes through as a kind of innocence, while the smug smog of Marxism is shown for what it is-a grey disease of the mind...
These notes of disenchantment are hopeful, for Uruguay's greatest enemy is smug optimism. But last week, with the south winds of winter dying away, optimism came easy. If spring marches in, can the Day of the Beaches be far behind...
...supporters had cast write-in votes for his son, gone out to marshal dead voters whose names could shoot his total higher. Now as the rain pattered outside, and shouting, drinking countrymen watched from the gallery, the legislature considered the two men eligible to succeed the departed Gene. With smug solemnity and a 161-87 vote, it chose Herman Talmadge...
...Carew, Ltd. "Believe me, Cliff," says Industrialist Ives with deep feeling, "the men who saved the world were never stopped by the Ten Commandments." Cliff replies with equally deep feeling: "I hope the day will come, sir, when I can be as truthful as that." Off he goes, looking smug, to save the world for the stockholders...
Well Regimented. Last month the "smug, righteous" day people, as Shepherd calls them, closed ranks: WOR declared Shepherd "noncommercial" and sacked him, thus setting off a clangor of protest heard halfway across the land. Next day the chain gave him a week's reprieve. Then Shepherd tried a hard-sell on the first commercial product that popped into mind, Sweetheart Soap (which had never been a WOR sponsor). He was abruptly cut off the air and fired again. Announced WOR: "We cannot permit such poor judgment to continue uncontrolled." Just as abruptly, WOR ate its words. Sweetheart Soap rewarded...