Word: babbittism
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Professor Babbitt is a scholar of tremendous erudition; he has read, roughly, everything. Be it Buddha, Coleridge, or Sinclair Lewis's last novel, it is all grist to his mill. The name of the course makes no difference; were it to be "A Study of the Literary Background of 'Alice in Wonderland'," Professor Babbitt would yet find in this work his favorities--the higher will, the ethical imagination, the central control making for decency and humility, the star of Burke, the Christian and the gentleman, and the wisdom of the ages--set against his villains--what one is tempted...
...sulked in the gloom while others soared to free, empyrean heights. Yet now, with the advent of the vernal release, he feels strange stirrings deep within him. He clamps his unruly heart with all the force of the elaborate apparatus of inner standard given him by Professor Babbitt. But the bolts have rusted and weakened in the mists and damp from the Charles. The Vagabond's spirit heaves and writhes; something snaps, and he is free...
...chessboard, writes ironical, sarcastic books. A typical Joadism: "Advertisements are ugly, partly because commercial men rarely have the sense to employ artists to design them, partly because artists, on the rare occasions when they are employed, have not the sense to design what the commercial men want." (The Babbitt Warren, p. 143; Harper...
...competitors are: G. H. Acheson '33, E. C. Allen '35, E. H. Angert '35, H. L. Babbitt '34, R. S. Barnes '35, D. J. Boorstin '34, Robert Breckinridge '34, Lincoln Bryant '33, Jack Chartoff '35, J. C. Cort '35, A. J. De Vito '33, Kenneth Di Menna '34, W. E. Esber '33, A. B. Gardiner '33, J. B. Gilbert '33, E. P. Gordon '33, George Gore...
...penniless peer for his title, showing off with loud clothes and reconditioned epigrams; an aging duchess (Violet Kemble-Cooper), jealous of her gigolo (Gilbert Roland) who is making love to Lady Grayston; Thornton Clay (Grant Mitchell), a pee-wee snob trying to behave like a patrician; a U. S. Babbitt (Minor Watson) who gives Lady Grayston checks and stubbornly calls her "girlie"; two as yet undegenerate Americans, Lady Grayton's young sister Bessie and an admirer who has followed her to London. The crisis that brings them all into violent collision comes when, at one of Lady Grayston...