Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should like to answer the personal attack made on myself and my article, "The Phoenix in the Babbitt Warren," which appeared in the February "Advocate." The author of this somewhat scurrilous attack chose, for reasons best known to himself, to remain anonymous, and so I must rely on you to call this letter of mine to his attention...
...wish to call attention to a statement in the February "Advocate made by H. M. Wade in his article, "The Phoenix in the Babbitt Warren." In speaking of American literary criticism, he says...
What Mr. Wallace does not recognize, however, is that in the very liberalism which is about to fall are contained the germs which are causing that fall; for liberalism, as Professor Babbitt has pointed out contains the same essential fallacy that characterizes the rest of Ronsseauistic ideas. Nationalism and it is almost synonymous with liberalism being Ronsseauistic and Romantic in its origins, is fundamentally contradictory; that is to say that the ideals contained in the nationalist conception are inevitably overwhelmed by the real, just as Rousseau after a long essay on the beauty of pure childhood announces that...
...studied with his usual his subject and its settings, from "Westward Ho! Hotel" of New York in the early 1900's to Myron's new modern inn in Connecticut, not forgetting even the Tourist Camp of 1933. It still retains that splendid and vivid connectivity of description which characterized "Babbitt," and he has had the good fortune or the wisdom to choose a subject which has proved, in the "Imperial Palace" and in "Grand Hotel" that it is perennially intriguing...
Scholar-Writer Bliss Perry retired almost three years ago and Humanist Irving Babbitt died last July, but Harvard still has giants in its English department. One of them is tiny, big-voiced John Livingston Lowes, 66, keen student of the Romantic Movement. He is perhaps the most brilliant U. S. example of the great scholar-teacher whom President Conant wants on his faculty. Another giant is snowy-bearded George Lyman Kittredge, 73, bon vivant, Chaucer and Shakespeare authority, prime link between Harvard's past & present...