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...castigates his spineless section chief for caving in to the pressure of office politics. On the surface, Author Burnett's tale, revolving about a big U.S. airline, is merely one more in the long list of novels, from Frank Norris' The Octopus to Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt and John Dos Passos' The Big Money, that show businessmen at their materialistic worst. Yet for all the angry talk of flint-hearted, fatheaded bosses, there is a big difference in Company Man that is symptomatic of the spate of new novels rediscovering the American business scene. A businessman himself...
With Love from Gracie, by Grace Hegger Lewis. Candid reminiscences by the first wife of Sinclair Lewis about life with the man who created Babbitt very nearly in his own image (TIME, Sept...
...point of Babbitt was not so much that Zenith's leading realtor was a philistine, but that he half knew it and hankered vaguely after something more than the life of a rich land shark...
There was something of Babbitt in his creator, Sinclair Lewis, and there was something of Carol Kennicott in his first wife, Grace Hegger Lewis. Gracie was, Lewis once wrote, "all the good part of Carol." This lends an uncommon interest to what would otherwise be a commonplace biography-Grace's account of her years with...
...Exit Babbitt. Mencken brought no such intuitive wisdom to economics or international affairs. He tried to laugh off the Depression as an invention of "charity racketeers," and he ignored Hitler as passing nonsense. Soon he and the Mercury were on the skids, and from 1933 until his 1948 stroke, he busied himself mainly with reminiscence (Newspaper Days) and scholarship (supplements to The American Language). Author Angoff skirts his lasting impact. Mencken, who detested democracy, ironically democratized U.S. life and art. He made Babbitt-land so culture-conscious that Babbitt disappeared. He lampooned frauds in high places so lustily that...