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...ideas." He defends all the liberal tenets--from foreign aid to equal rights--by illustrating the salutary effect they would have on the nation's capital growth. Certainly there is moralism in his politics, but there is also a large dose of boosterism. Where Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt deprecated the poor for their lack of "pep," Humphrey says he wants to inject the talents of the poor into the economy as a shot of "pep--non-Babbitt style...
Serving as Acting Chairman of the Society this year will be Harry T. Levin '33, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature...
...Woodrow Wilson was on his way out, and the Republicans seemed certain to take over the White House. Their triumph would be achieved through the candidacy of Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding, the handsome Babbitt from Marion, Ohio. Republicans all over the nation were rooting for him, and in his own home town on the day that Harding, 54, opened his campaign, every storefront in the community was ablaze with bunting...
Declaring that "the field of Shakesperian nomenclature is wide open, and affords an inviting pasture to browse in," Harry Levin '33, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, yesterday afternoon meandered through several hundred puns and allusions he finds in the names of the Bard's characters...
...first book, God and Man at Yale, which accused his Alma Mater of preaching liberalism and secularism to the exclusion of almost everything else. And in that fall of 1955, the articulate young conservative found the political weather parlous. "Clever intriguers are reshaping both parties in the image of Babbitt gone Social-Democrat," he wrote. The press, he said, was a mess of "New Deal journalism"; conformity, fabricated by "Social Engineers," loomed as "the largest cultural menace in America...