Word: smugness
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...Radcliffe (studying under Perry Miller and completing all the Ph.D. Requirements but a thesis), and writes a piece of critical analysis. Though Survival, a collection of critical essays, met a good reception, she says she never felt any particular fondness for the form and, even at Radcliffe, felt equally smug, and guilty for listening to junior faculty's political woes "and secretly knowing I would never have to cope with...
...lobby, a small group of newcomers ignore the desert vistas and seek out the nurse, the herbalist, the dietician, the three pools, four racquetball courts, six tennis courts and beauty salon. They disperse to the appropriate locker room where, overdressed in clothes, they encounter the smug incumbents. In the women's room, all physical indignities, personal tribulations and great accomplishments are revealed and shared. Shelly, a Chicago mother of two and an architecture student, says, "Being here is most akin to the experience of having a baby...
Though Off the Wall by and large treats the Journal with respect, some harsher thrusts are directed at the paper's supposedly smug and selfish readers. One story reports that market forces have diverted distribution of a drug that will cure leprosy to use instead in treating tennis elbow. The jokes range from the incisive to the tasteless, and even the racist and antiSemitic. An Op-Ed column headlined COLORED PEOPLE MUST SUFFER TO PROSPER is signed "Thomas Soweto," deftly mocking the free-market views of Thomas Sowell, a conservative black economist who contends that racism...
Once, in the summer of 1972,1 asked Haldeman what Watergate was all about. "I wish I knew," he replied, and changed the subject. In late January 19731 ran into Joseph Califano, a former Johnson aide and old friend. To my smug remark that I did not see how the Democrats could recover from their electoral debacle, Califano said Watergate would bring a Democratic revival. I passed this view on to Ehrlichman, who snorted: "Wishful thinking! If that is what they are counting on, they will be out of office for 30 years...
These are not cheap shots aimed to cripple Rumania's tourist industry or elicit smug agreement about Communist inefficiency. Corde has seen worse in Chicago. He has, in fact, written about it with appalling accuracy for Harper's magazine and caused a flap. The dean has also been criticized for his role in the arrest of two blacks accused of murder. Corde has been called a racist, a traitor to his home town and a fool. His boss is miffed at the publicity caused by his magazine piece, and his boyhood friend Dewey Spangler, now a famous columnist...