Word: babbittism
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...Winnemac, the itch was inflamed to an ache, a passion for pure science and meticulous laboratory research. The purposes of Arrowsmith's contemporaries were shoddy, sloppy (there was a beefy Bible-banger, a medical Babbitt, an icy, calculating dollar-chaser). And even stronger than Arrowsmith's reactions against these was his love for the lonely, sardonic genius of the school, Max Gottlieb, Mephistophelian German Jew, brilliant immunologist, pure scientist...
...Significance. Mr. Lewis once had a romantic twist (see Free Air, The Trail of the Hawk, The Job). Then discontent plagued him sore. He pickaxed through Main Street, spitted Babbitt. Now, slightly relieved but no whit satisfied, he hammers out a harsh heroism and lays it, hissing hot, to the flabby flank of Medicine. While he is thus occupied, his fancy is caught by a realist's dream of fair woman - wry little Leora. The satire is swift, sure, great in its age, and Leora, being of life, will outlive...
Personally I belong to this second class and so perhaps my opinion is prejudiced. The whole thing reminded me of "Babbitt." Like that book it had a very good ending, the last two minutes were really worthy of the name of comedy: but like Babbit again it achieved this triumph mostly by contrast with what went before. One has to sit through all of two acts (mercifully short) and nearly an equal amount of a third in order to be amused for a few minutes at the very...
...Chairman, Miss Celesfe Pope; G. P. Carver Jr., Miss Constance Stanton; E. H. Ober, Miss Alice Madden: W. F. Howard, Miss Helen Powers; B. D. Leahey, Miss Kate Johnson: R. C. Howe Jr., Miss Elizabeth Hanson; R. L. Hunt, Miss Frances Love; F. Dyer, Miss Elinor Burnett; R. H. Babbitt, Miss Ruth Johnston; R. S. Lee, Miss Mildred Stone, L. A. Weisman, Miss Dorothy Kiam; A. R. Allen Jr., Miss Elizabeth Thorndike...
...coat of a wealthy Babbitt...