Word: smugness
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...allows the human body to be born disfigured, twisted and crippled, and to become palsied, leprous and maimed before reaching the grave-but He also gives each man a perfect soul at birth, the final appearance of which is man's work alone. The smug physical perfections of this world would do well to concern themselves more with the condition of their own souls...
Your story of Admiral Hyman Rickover makes the average citizen wonder just how many conscientious, devoted Navy officers have been eased out of the service by that smug, tax-supported little social club, the Selection Board...
...Orient. The sight of a paretic Venetian pandering his nine-year-old daughter, or of a Calcutta mendicant clutching the withered body of a dead baby with one hand, a beggar's bowl in the other, is not easily forgotten. In such situations, Americans often assume the smug attitude that such things are not done at home; in the good old U.S.A., everything is organized, charity is tidily and efficiently handled...
...story of his adolescent affair with a young married woman, it nevertheless sharpens its poignancy. The sympathetic portrayal of the lovers' parents, seen only dimly in the book, greatly enriches the plot. But more important, the film strips the story of the irritating elements of the book: Radiguet's smug introspection and pride of exploit. Shifted into the character of the schoolboy, rather then coloring the whole account, the immaturity and egoism of the young lover appear in proper perspective...
Your "strong and stable U.S." strikes me as typical smug Timery! All your readers are not thriving farmers, satisfied businessmen and relaxed Republicans. Neither are most Americans ... I would be very much interested in a feature article on "Our Forgotten People," the time-clock punchers, housewives and oldsters in the tragedy of America -the aging big city...