Word: babbittical
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Envy, penniless, accoutred in dismal garb, ogles the fur coat of a wealthy Babbitt...
...windy clergyman, Babbitt orator and honest man, is married to the wistfully wise, perilously attractive Candida. The poet Marchbanks, weakling in body but with a warrior mind, persuades the windy one he is not worthy of his wife. He speaks of love. The windy one bids the wife choose. She takes the honest Babbitt, the man strong before the world; the man least able to bear loneliness. The pliant poet is the hero of the whole...
...United States. Its political display is regarded as a mere sign Behind the political movement is seen an almost universal revulsion away from liberal tendencies. Intellectual freedom is endangered. It is feared that thought and the arts will succumb to the dulling influence of bourgeois ideals. Once more Babbitt goes about his daily lasks in great glee. He rubs his hands and beams genially Popular approval has placed its divine sanction upon the trinity of his creed Efficiency, and And having the conscionsness of the crowd at his back, he redevotes himself to Business...
...nineteenth century saw. Babbitt succeed Napoleon as conqueror of the world. Yet the same century saw the most extravagant, play of individualism of any age in history. Chateaubriand, Hugo, DeMusset, Devigny in France--Burns, Byron, Shelley, Keats in England...developed their genius in the face of, and often in protest against the deadening influence of commercialism, industrialism, and materialism...
...historic land of the geisha girls, jinrikishas, and paper houses has been transformed into a bustling, optimistic country of Rotarians, go-getters, and "Service First" business men. The old Japan still moves only in the enchanting interpretations of Lafcadio Hearn. It has given way to the push of the Babbitt. An American Main-Streeter, member of the college friendship pilgrimage which has just completed an exploration of the modern Japan, is the only one who can properly eulogize the new soul of the Orient...