Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winnemac, the itch was inflamed to an ache, a passion for pure science and meticulous laboratory research. The purposes of Arrowsmith's contemporaries were shoddy, sloppy (there was a beefy Bible-banger, a medical Babbitt, an icy, calculating dollar-chaser). And even stronger than Arrowsmith's reactions against these was his love for the lonely, sardonic genius of the school, Max Gottlieb, Mephistophelian German Jew, brilliant immunologist, pure scientist...
Personally I belong to this second class and so perhaps my opinion is prejudiced. The whole thing reminded me of "Babbitt." Like that book it had a very good ending, the last two minutes were really worthy of the name of comedy: but like Babbit again it achieved this triumph mostly by contrast with what went before. One has to sit through all of two acts (mercifully short) and nearly an equal amount of a third in order to be amused for a few minutes at the very...
...Chairman, Miss Celesfe Pope; G. P. Carver Jr., Miss Constance Stanton; E. H. Ober, Miss Alice Madden: W. F. Howard, Miss Helen Powers; B. D. Leahey, Miss Kate Johnson: R. C. Howe Jr., Miss Elizabeth Hanson; R. L. Hunt, Miss Frances Love; F. Dyer, Miss Elinor Burnett; R. H. Babbitt, Miss Ruth Johnston; R. S. Lee, Miss Mildred Stone, L. A. Weisman, Miss Dorothy Kiam; A. R. Allen Jr., Miss Elizabeth Thorndike...
Envy, penniless, accoutred in dismal garb, ogles the fur coat of a wealthy Babbitt...
...coat of a wealthy Babbitt...