Word: babbitt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article "Liberal Control": cheers for National Student Association Veep Timothy Jenkins. His "extremism" may spotlight the hypocrisy of such as William F. Buckley Jr., who have subverted the cause of moderate conservatives by posturing us as udicrous figures somewhere between Adolf Hitler and George Babbitt...
...large extent, the excitement is fueled by memories of Salinger's most famous work. For of all the characters set to paper by American authors since the war, only Holden Caulfield, the gallant scatologer of The Catcher in the Rye, has taken flesh permanently, as George F. Babbitt, Jay Gatsby, Lieut. Henry and Eugene Gant took flesh...
...mansards of Montparnasse. In telling about it all. he establishes the hardly original thesis that being broke is very hard work and that panhandling-working as cut-rate gigolo, or becoming valet-pimp to a parsimonious Parsee-can involve more shame and chicanery than the whole career of a Babbitt or a Cash McCall...
...when he became an instructor in theory at the Cleveland Institute, where he worked under Ernest Bloch. Since then, Composer Sessions, now teaching at Princeton, has sent forth from his classroom some of the most promising names in U.S. music-Leon Kirchner, David Diamond, Andrew Imbrie, Milton Babbitt...
...poor Vangel Griffin goes forth to have his values laundered. He leaves his wife (a bitch, in his words), his job in a law firm (a bore), and his country (a Babbitt hutch), and goes to Spain. Vangel has some sense of purpose: he intends to commit suicide in exactly one year. A woman takes his mind off his goal...