Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before the figure of one who was a true vagabond inwardly as well as outwardly, we cannot but do him reverence. Such a one was Chateaubriand a man whose I fe was a series of magnificent gestures and of him I go at 12 o'clock to hear Professor Babbitt speak in Comparative Literature 11 in Harvard...
Last week this sleekest of ocean greyhounds nosed into Haifa, the port of call for Jerusalem, and one who is not a babbitt hastened ashore...
...prevents me from being present at Fine Arts 4a, Comparative Literature 11 and English 76. Probably the thing to do will be to follow closely after Professor Edgell when he leaves Emerson J for Robinson, where he will speak on Antonio da Lougallo the younger, and Boldassare Peruzzi Professor Babbitt will talk on the aesthetic letters of Schiller this noon in Harvard 5 and if only because of hearing a few other lectures by Professor Babbitt the temptation to forsake my pursuit of Professor Edgell and the fine arts for the upper reaches of Harvard Hall grows constantly stronger...
...about two magnificent architects, Brunelleschi and Michelozzo, in Fine Arts 4a. In the Music Building, Professor Bill in his course on the Russian Nationalists is to talk about Balakirev, a strange but great musiclan. And then I remember Professor Lake's Old Testament lecture in Emerson D, and Professor Babbitt's lecture on the Romantic Movement in Harvard 6, and 1 give up in despair...
...quoted certain rather vacuous remarks attributed to the young Prince von Bismarck, grandson of the great "Iron Chancellor," now in this country as the guest of his cousin, Baron Leopold Piessen of the German Embassy at Washington. In your article you imply that Prince Bismarck is "commonplace," "Babbitt-tailored," a "fop," a "milksop." Will you not give publicity to the following estimate of Prince Bismarck recently penned by a gentleman whom I believe you have styled "famed Washington correspondent, Clinton W. Gilbert." His opinion is probably at least as good as yours. Here it is: "Prince Otto von Bismarck...