Word: babbittism
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...quoted certain rather vacuous remarks attributed to the young Prince von Bismarck, grandson of the great "Iron Chancellor," now in this country as the guest of his cousin, Baron Leopold Piessen of the German Embassy at Washington. In your article you imply that Prince Bismarck is "commonplace," "Babbitt-tailored," a "fop," a "milksop." Will you not give publicity to the following estimate of Prince Bismarck recently penned by a gentleman whom I believe you have styled "famed Washington correspondent, Clinton W. Gilbert." His opinion is probably at least as good as yours. Here it is: "Prince Otto von Bismarck...
...when he undertook to edit L'Art et la Vie, and later in a novel L'Effort. Mere "Effort" however did not suffice him long. His increasingly militant "golden rulism" found expression in the polemic daily, L'Action. That he holds no brief for mere crude babbitt attainment is clear to anyone who has read his L'Aristocratic Intellectuelle: "So long as a people do not grant to intellectual aristocracy its proper place, so long must their social system remain suspect to the wise and dangerous to the masses...
...discover in these murals some reminiscence of the art calendar, let them not suggest that 'Philosophy' might have been intended as the decoration for a magazine poem; that 'Science Measuring the Heavens While a Young Woman Makes Record' looks like a satire upon the modern Babbitt's indispensable stenographer. Such things are matters of opinion, and the only opinion which has not yet been given upon John Singer Sargent is that of posterity...
...false standards equally harmful to the boys involved. For while bribes and subsidies will debauch the few who play, the do-or-die stuff makes eternal sophomores not only out of the few who play but also out of the many who applaud. What was George F. Babbitt but an eternal sophomore...
...ARTHUR BABBITT TIME is always grateful for suggestions, is grateful to Subscriber Babbitt. But "Religion" as a department heading must continue to cover many differing interests...