Word: babbittism
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Poet Viereck must recognize as a historian that Gaylord [Babbitt] is a casualty in a sociological cultural change...
...Protean Babbitt...
...Thank you for giving wider currency to the wise words of Peter Viereck on the protean Babbitt [TIME, July...
Someone ought to do for Gaylord [Babbitt] what Proust did for Madame Verdurin.* It would be a public service to publish a catalogue of the dreary cliches of so-called avant-gardism, and to point out that old George, with his uncomplicated enthusiasm for baseball and civil philanthropy, was no more hostile to genuine intellectual independence than Junior, with his exhibitionistic juggling of the phrases of psychoanalysis and wine tasting...
Poet-Historian Viereck, true to the essence of anti-Babbittry, thinks the country is going to the dogs because of them. A junior anti-Babbitt, however, he mongers new-style stereotyped cliches to put across his point. Naive domestic Babbitts without any breeding will continue to prefer cleverness to wisdom...