Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SEVEN years have passed since we have had a volume from Professor Babbitt, but they have not been years of inactivity. When the humanistic storm broke over America several years ago he was ready to stand by the doctrines which he had been advancing many years previous to their popular revival in America. "On Being Creative" includes essays and lectures written and delivered in the intervening period; one was delivered at the University of Toronto; others appeared in the Bookman, the Nineteenth Century and After, and the Forum...
...title essay and that on "The Critic and American Life" bear a marked similarity. Professor Babbitt tells the present age that it is denying standards, repudiating, as did the earliest romanticists, the Christian and humanist traditions. Untraditional as we believe ourselves today, we are as confused as any men of a century ago. We are the victims of a "jazzy impressionism;" "still", he admits, "our naturalistic deliquescence has probably not gone so far as one might infer from poetry like that of Mr. Sandburg or fiction like that of Mr. Dos Passos." When one reads the ponderous latinities into which...
...Babbitt, H. H. Babcock, F. H. 2nd, V. G. Balboni, M. L. N. C. Bodman, Randolph Jr., R. R. Borden, Jr., E. D. F. G. von Brecht, R. E. von R. S. Brookings, II, H. B. Burley, E. C. Carman, I. S. Chenoweth, Chung, Northrop Clarey, Jr., Crocker, A. B. Duel, Jr., B. K. Jr., J. S. England, C. R. Jr., W. A. Forbush...
...George R. Agassiz, Mrs. Irving Babbitt, Mrs. P. deM. Barbey, Mrs. Frederick H. Briggs, Mrs. George Sargent Burgess, Mrs. William B. Cabot, Miss Annie B. Chapman, Mrs. H. E. Clifford, Mrs. Julian L. Coolidge, Mrs. Archibald T. Davison, Mrs. L. Day, Mrs. George H. Edgell, Mrs. Henry H. Fay, Mrs. Harry Ganz, Mrs. Anna, L. Gray, Mrs. Holmes Hinkley, Miss Anna E. Holman, Mrs. Edward J. Holmes, Mrs. Thomas B. Hughes, Mrs. Edward W. Hutchins, Mrs. Edward Hale Lane, Mrs. Charles G. Mixter, Mrs. John Montague, Mrs. Arthur W. Moors, Mrs. Andre Morize, Mrs. Theresa R. Osgood, Mrs. Thomas...
...Contemporary Criticism; A. Francis; J. LeMaitre," Professor Babbitt, Harvard...