Word: smugness
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...London, Viet Nam and Washington. Says Washington Star Political Writer Jules Witcover: "Among the writing press covering politics, Mudd is considered the top broadcast reporter. He's the one guy who really covers politics in the off years, who gets around." Some CBS executives found Mudd to be smug and difficult to get along with in recent years, but they are paying a considerable compliment to his skills: CBS plans to hold him to his contract (it extends through 1980) until the day after the Nov. 4 elections...
...demand for exposed intimacies is easier to understand than the supply. The public hunger for spilled beans is just more of the craving for news, the yen to be titillated, touched or amused by the foibles and agonies of others. Squalid and sleazy tales may reinforce the smug superiority of the righteous or provide perverse comfort for the miscreant. But Americans of all stripes have al ways had, though not uniquely, what University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland calls a "public commitment to voyeurism." Still, why is the voyeuristic hunger suddenly being so abundantly pandered...
...School can afford a collective smug grin. Sought out for its academic and training resources and frequently in the headlines as a forum for political events, it is one of Harvard's flashiest showpieces. Many observers wonder where the school derives its near-frantic desire for expansion and improvement. Who sets the pace of the Kennedy School? What keeps Allison and Co. hustling...
True or false, such barbs are damaging, and their increasing frequency damages the reputation of the Ivy League, nurtures smug remarks about how the Ivies have their own little sports scandal...
Until a few years ago, humans could feel fairly smug about what was thought to be their unique ability to communicate with one another by using spoken language or symbols. Then psychologists at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta taught two chimps named Austin and Sherman to "converse" by pushing buttons that displayed various symbols. For probably the first time, two animals were communicating by means other than their usual repertory of gestures, grunts and squeals...