Word: babbittism
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...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...
...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...