Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slight age, is quite worth seeing. The continuity of a plot is worked out with surprising effectiveness and the atmosphere of "darkest Africa" is quite skillfully created. Compared with the opus of Mr. Shaw, it would seem that there is something in the primitivistic movement in spite of Mr. Babbitt...
...Babbitt. Contrary to reports, it was not only for 'Babbitt that Author Lewis was raised to the Nobelity. His official citation, released last week by the Swedish Academy...
Such a one, Prizeman Lewis indicated, is Princeton's Professor Emeritus Dr. Henry van Dyke, member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters who recently criticized the Nobel award to Babbitt's creator as a "backhanded compliment" to America (TIME. Dec. 8). Flaying the 50 academicians as a group, Mr. Lewis nevertheless made ten exceptions, evinced a weakness for: Nicholas Murray Butler (president of the Academy), Wilbur Lucius Cross, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, James Trus-low Adams, Hamlin Garland, Owen Wister, Brand Whitlock, Edith Wharton, Booth Tarkington. But the Academy, he declared, "does not represent literary America today...
...author of Elmer Gantry in receiving the Nobel Prize?" Prizeman Lewis had hoped that Dr. van Dyke would not "demand the landing of U. S. Marines at Stockholm to protect American literary rights." Princeton's patriarch rejoined: "Why send the marines to Stockholm to interfere with the Babbitt? Just tell it to them...
...issues. Here is something in quite a different vein--a sort of Babel of philosophers, poets, and literary figures of all ages and kinds. The scene is half-way up Olympus; the characters range from Aristotle, Socrates, Aristophanes, through Rabelais, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, to Freud, Joyce, Lawrence, Babbitt and many others. Mr. Belisle's effort is the kind of thing one starts out disposed to ap- preciate to the limit. The first few pages--concerned chiefly with the ancients--are worthy of appreciation and the reader's pre-conceived sympathy undergoes no strain. But as things...