Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Mrs. Sinclair Lewis declared: "Babbitt, romanticizing his business, is merely a comic and pathetic figure, but his female counterpart, the high-powered business woman, is the most terrifying figure that has ever emerged on any scene. Men may be forgiven . . . but women, with their sounder biological instincts, should know . . . that that's not life...
...Chateaubriand," Professor Babbitt, Sever...
...Nathan sees them. Here he advances the every sound idea that one reason for the weakness of present day dramatic criticism is in the weakness of the dramatists themselves. Another landing place for Mr. Nathan's frequently applied critical foot is humanism. For him, the cries of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmore More are the result of a too copiously imbibing of the sour grape. "And, as Lewis Mumford has so aptly put it, their strength, as with a Chinese Army, consists largely in their war cries and their dreadful faces...
While Mr. Babbitt is occupied in Sever 11 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, Sinclair Lewis is seated before a large Seidel of Schnapps. Mr. Nathan points out that the difference in these two fates obviously shows that the humanists are very much mistaken...
...other three lecturers will be professor John Dewey, of columbia on April 2, Professor E. H. Smyth on April 9, and Professor Irving Babbitt will talk on "Originality versus Culture" on April...