Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Permit me to extend a cordial invitation to Babbitt to visit the Paris Exposition in 1937," said the French General Commissioner of the exposition. Edmond Labbe, speaking at the American Club in Paris. "I know he would appreciate our exposition of art and technique. It will be an exposition made for Babbitt and his kind in other nations, be they called Durand and du Pont, Smith and Jones, or Ivanov and Levy...
...really means to fill the Harvard faculty with men who devote their lives to the adverb in Tacitus or to the importation of bananas into Brittany during the sixteenth century, and none that it wishes to get rid of teachers who might follow in the footsteps of James, Norton, Babbitt, and their peers...
...Warner, in charge of distribution, told what his brother Jack, in charge of production, had prepared for 1934-35; Barbara Stanwyck in Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, a sequel to I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang called I'm Back in the Chain Gang; Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, with Guy Kibbee; Anthony Adverse; Dolores Del Rio in Farewell to Shanghai; journalistic investigations of bicycle racing. Boulder Dam, roadhouses. traveling salesladies; five musical pictures...
...Buchler's address, is a tribute to Irying Babbitt, for many years one of the College's most distinguished English professors. After asserting that Mr. Babbitt showed that there was something more to literature than an escape from reality and a vicarious romance, lie goes on to say that "Because this method of studying literature demanded a concentration on the ideas contained therein, he had little use for scholars who concern themselves primarily with sources and textual criticism." This may have caused him to miss the value of some literature, but this belief made him "restore to literary criticism some...
HARVARD PRINCETON Sherman, fb. fb., Pasley Babbitt, rw.3/4 rw.3/4, Bales Meiklejohn, c.3/4 c.3/4, Halton Channing, c.3/4 c.3/4, Swann Howard, lw3/4. lw.3/4, Lee Whitney, soh. soh., Duffus Mayorga, sh. sh., McPartland White, f. f., Stewart Sweeney, f. f., Cragin Oppenheimer, f. f., Davis Knapp, f. f., Fisher Nazro, f. f., Hogg Aitken, f. f., McAllen Oettinger, f. f., Quigley Schwyzer, f. f., Sinclair...