Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wanderers of the Wasteland. Colored cinematography has at last achieved a colorable success. "Technicolor" is the process with which this picture paints Zane Grey in hues like unto none he ever dreamed of conveying to the babbitt consciousness. His reddest Indian, his most blushful sunset, his glaringest desert appear before the eye, often with a marked degree of credibility. The characters thus incolorated are incarnated in Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Billie Dove. These, together with Death Valley, the Arizona cacti, Red Rock Canyon?flawless in beauty all?glorify themselves forever...
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?A blazing satire on the Babbitt family, that yet extorts laughter from such successful morons themselves...
...Babbitt colleges for Canada...
...Democracy and Leadership" is the title of a book which Professor Irving Babbitt '89 has just finished writing. It is scheduled for publication within two months by Houghton Mifflin...
...book Professor Babbitt expounds his belief that since Democracy will necessarily be judged by other forms of government, the American trend will be fatal and will lead to decadent imperialism. This country's failure in leadership he attributes to the faults in our higher education where ethical standards have been undermined by utilitarian and sentimental tendencies...