Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marco Millions-MARCO POLO IS TOOL IN BABBITT FLAYING WHILE O'NEILL SNEERS...
...they discover no very clearly marked thoroughfare for American letters. But under the ruling hierarchy of Dreiser, Mencken, Robinson, and Anderson, Mr. Munson finds an approaching aridity that fresh blood must eventually dispel. And so, in the present volume, with a respectful acknowledgement of the critical importance of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More, and an estimation of Dreiser, Robinson, and Lindsay, he attempts, in a series of essays on Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, William Williams, Kenneth Burke, Hart Crane, and Jean Toomer, to resolve the future. Mr. Munson writes these appreciations with un- derstanding, but in a workable argot...
...work of Irving Babbitt and Paul More is pessimism for the present and preparation for the future, an establishment of inclusive standards at na time when national literature has run aground in the twin streams of unapplied realism, and unrelated, subjective aestheticism. Agreeing with these critics, Mr. Munson still seeks the seeds of renaissance in the attempts of the young writers he cites. In its broader aspect, this attempt is unconvincing. The youthful obfuscations, artful vignettes though they often are, are such weak voices crying in dissonance with the other weak voices in a wilderness of theory and abstraction that...
...family thinks she is stark, staring "buggy." But she tells her father her secret. He, a kindly babbitt, understands and finally helps Patsy to find the arms of the realtor...
...Patsy. King Vidor, director of The Big Parade, has more recently gone in for cinemastudies of the average U. S. inhabitant (or babbitt, as some prefer). His findings are two of the finest films of the year: The Crowd, tragic story of a Manhattan clerk and wife; The Patsy, funny episodes of a suburban family that spends Sunday tiring itself out by trying to rest...