Word: smugness
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...Smug Group. In his campus office, President Darden, 57, a broad-shouldered, good-humored man, made no attempt to duck the basic issues. Said he: "There is a deep-seated cleavage over my purpose to relate the university to the public-school system of the state. It disturbs the smug group that wants to maintain a self-satisfied and narrow view of the university. They want to make it a sort of Princeton in the absurd social sense in which-Princeton is pictured sometimes-a sort of F. Scott Fitzgerald Princeton...
...indeed it is the most impressive one in the film, is likely to distract attention from the picture as a whole; and the whole is an ambitious attempt to show what the American heartland was like when 60 million buffaloes roamed the plains. Disney fails-partly because of the smug, fatherly pats of approval he keeps giving the animal kingdom, as though he personally had founded it with Mickey Mouse. Here and there, however, the picture has a patch of beauty briary enough (as the nursery rhyme puts it) to scratch a man's eyes in. Some patches...
...coronation maids of honor) in London. She was pictured in a chic, form-fitting dress, which stopped some gossips but moved others to talk of the wonders of modern corseting. Just to spite the prattlers, London's Daily Herald ran the photograph with a smug caption: "The Queen with a nipped-in waist...
...House of Commons speech, says, "Britain has a decisive role to play . . . That role is to civilize the power of America. Today Britain is the respected free nation in Southeast Asia, and I am afraid America is the discredited nation." Do they, the British, actually feel so smug? Wait until, God forbid, Hong Kong and Singapore...
...Smug Little Incubus. Author Brophy is Londoner of Irish descent. At 24 she writes clean, cool English prose, shows a perceptive grasp of her material and has turned out a pointed and amusing little satire. Her last chapter, entitled "Soliloquy of an Embryo," follows the brief career of Edwina's "snug, smug self-sufficient little incubus." It is the kind of fantastic literary device that only a very competent and very serene writer could bring off. Author Brophy manages...