Word: babbittism
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...Patsy. King Vidor, director of The Big Parade, has more recently gone in for cinemastudies of the average U. S. inhabitant (or babbitt, as some prefer). His findings are two of the finest films of the year: The Crowd, tragic story of a Manhattan clerk and wife; The Patsy, funny episodes of a suburban family that spends Sunday tiring itself out by trying to rest...
...more than once gone the way of all good epigrams--to its refutation. And now, exception has once more been taken to it, for, in the current number of The Nineteenth Century and After, appears an article by P. S. Richards which extols, in no uncertain terms, Professor Irving Babbitt as among the foremost, if not the most eminent, of contemporary constructive critics...
Professor Babbitt is indeed more than a mere critic, more than a professor of French literature. If society in its broadest sense had the same nomenclature as political parties, he might well be called the leader of the opposition. Not that Professor Babbitt is in any sense like the much caricatured radical, bomb in hand, "agin' society": rather the opposition--, as the himself is fond of putting it--, is "the opposition of the Real to the welter of the Actual...
...against this chaos that Professor Babbitt has, in the name of Aristotle, definitely taken his stand. By all thoughtful persons his position will be applauded; by all, whether thoughtful or not, the facts which he presents will sooner or later have to be faced...
...Habits. Lowell Schmaltz inhabits Zenith, the hypothetical midwestern town boomed by the famed realtor George F. Babbitt...