Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: HARVARD YALE Watt, f.b. f.b., Hamilton Babbitt, r.w. r.w., Noyes Whitney, r.c. r.c., Morton Meiklejohn, l.c. l.c., Tupper Potter, l.w. l.w., Bogart Sherman, s.o.h. s.o.h., Donald Supper, h.b. h.b., Williamson Nazro, f. f., Nichols White, f. f., Wilbur Thorburn, f. f., Howland Oppenheimer, f. f., MacClenghen Burrage, f. f., Anthony Knapp, f. f., Grand Dockery, f. f., McEiroy Armstrong, f. f., Walther...
Professor Babbitt is a scholar of tremendous erudition; he has read, roughly, everything. Be it Buddha, Coleridge, or Sinclair Lewis's last novel, it is all grist to his mill. The name of the course makes no difference; were it to be "A Study of the Literary Background of 'Alice in Wonderland'," Professor Babbitt would yet find in this work his favorities--the higher will, the ethical imagination, the central control making for decency and humility, the star of Burke, the Christian and the gentleman, and the wisdom of the ages--set against his villains--what one is tempted...
...goes. Every one will agree with Professor Babbitt up to a certain point. Some will become disciples, and others will lay more stress on those sides of literature to which he, on his own admission and intention, does not do justice. The lectures tend to become repetitious; a bit too much time is spent on Rousscan's Confessions; but the course on the whole is a stimulating one and one of the very best advocated in the little green pamphlet. Whether they sit at his feet, or whether they learn from him by "intellectual repulsion," the one thing students cannot...
...sulked in the gloom while others soared to free, empyrean heights. Yet now, with the advent of the vernal release, he feels strange stirrings deep within him. He clamps his unruly heart with all the force of the elaborate apparatus of inner standard given him by Professor Babbitt. But the bolts have rusted and weakened in the mists and damp from the Charles. The Vagabond's spirit heaves and writhes; something snaps, and he is free...
...chessboard, writes ironical, sarcastic books. A typical Joadism: "Advertisements are ugly, partly because commercial men rarely have the sense to employ artists to design them, partly because artists, on the rare occasions when they are employed, have not the sense to design what the commercial men want." (The Babbitt Warren, p. 143; Harper...