Word: smugness
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...spirit may fizz away. It may leave little of substance. Or it could congeal into something meaner: smug, complacent, intolerant, jingoistic. Lipset suggests that if serious economic problems hit the country during the next couple of years, Americans will become bitterer than ever, and sink to new depths of national despair. Says he: "Americans will feel had, no matter what party is running the White House at the time." Or the country might become self-satisfied and flaccid. "Optimism does not mean that we should not be cognizant of the real problems that we face," says Orthodox Rabbi Stanley Wagner...
...been following them religiously since the beginning of the season, and I have only one more question about the marvelous, fantastic, incredible Detroit Tigers. Is there any stopping these phenomenal, sensational, paragons of athletic ability? --Smug in Straus...
...Dear Smug...
Instead it is about the Nancy Riggins of this country, who are trapped with low pay, unstable work, and ever pressing needs outrunning their budgets. They are the ones who have never heard the smug, intellectual argument I have heard so often in this corner of Cambridge--that Mondale is little different than Reagan, and the best thing for a progressive to do is not to vote at all-otherwise one is selling out. The story is about those who will fight when they can, where they can, whether they succeed fully or not, whether they attract attention...
...Dallas is the city where the East peters out, and that Fort Worth, some 30 miles to the west, was in fact where the West began. Fort Worth welcomes comparisons. It has stockyards, Dallas does not. Fort Worth is Texas. Dallas in many ways is not. "Dallas is so smug, so pretentious," writes Greene. "The rest of Texas hates Dallas." Other Texans see Dallas as the place where the dry-goods salesmen from the East climbed off the stagecoaches and set up shop. Houston, good old earthy Houston, attracted the wildcatters. Houston has oil. Dallas does not. Dallas has class...