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Such at least was the smug sophistication of what some ill-informed individual was prompted to call the "leisure class...
...most of them a new instrument. It was the a cappella chorus?group singing unaccompanied. Specifically, it was the Sistine Choir (TIME, Oct. 22), in its Manhattan début. One does not think of voices without accompaniment as an instrument of rich and dramatic musical utterance. The church choir, smug, monotonous, leaves an abiding impression on the American ear. Even the best of oratorio choruses do not escape the stilted, churchy dullness. A fine operatic chorus, like that of the Metropolitan Opera Company, is not an independent unity; it works essentially in conjunction with the orchestra. There have been...
...faculty are notoriously pacifist. A study of history will quickly point out the danger of such pacificism, which surely points to the fear that the sacrifices of the next generation will be even more than the unpardonable sacrifices suffered by America in the past war due to our smug complacency of unpreparedness...
...failed to observe him wandering hatless and abstracted about the Yard. It is all very well to call Harvard the "academic kingdom of heaven", and we are obliged for the compliment; but in academics, as in religion, individual interpretations of heaven differ. Our academic heaven is not of the smug, cloistered variety that escapes the noises of the workaday world by stopping its ears. We have seen too many recent examples of Harvard professors who are in the thick of the fight to be greatly disturbed when anyone accuses us of "respectability". Indeed the whole notion that colleges and their...
...figures for the rest of the trade. If the differences are due to real differences in circumstances, well and good. Very often, however, other divergencies that cannot readily be explained are brought out. It seems to me that the statement "My business is different" usually indicates a feeling of smug contentment, of superiority, of satisfaction, and that the merchant who uses it believes that he has nothing more to learn from his fellow merchants...