Word: babbittism
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...drift away from a constitutional to an unlimited democracy of the kind that La Follette is preaching has always meant in the past the rise of class warfare, the disappearance of individual liberty, and the triumph of the principle of force", said Professor Irving Babbitt when asked by a CRIMSON reporter to comment on La Follette's attitude toward the constitution and the Supreme Court...
...Allowing Congress to pass legislation which the Supreme Court has declared to be unconstitutional", continued Professor Babbitt, "is equivalent to declaring the constitution void. La Follette represents, therefore, part of a dangerous trend in this country to discredit the judiciary, and ultimately to undermine and weaken the veto power of the constitution upon popular impulse...
...outstanding weakness of the present age in dealing with the political problem", according to Professor Babbitt, "is its lack of historical perspective. Few moderns are able to judge the present in the light of the past, and what we most need at this juncture in our national affairs is the power to appraise the demagoguery of the present in the light of the political past." To quote a sentence from Professor Babbitt's latest book, La Follette is a good example of "the progressive who has repudiated the past, barely tolerates the present, and is at home imaginatively only...
Thereupon, Father and Uncle George arrange a supper party with the latter lady, hoping, with the unpleasant intolerance of Babbitt opinion about chorus girls, that they can ward her off with wealth. By a curious coincidence common to the stage, Sister is in the same cafe with the family chauffeur, and Brother is somewhere downstairs, very drunk, and jealous because his fragile flower is getting her evening's fodder at the expense of two elderly unknowns. By the end of the scene everybody has strayed into everybody's else private dining room and there is a great deal...
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK−Wholesale homicide of a babbitt family; a dream play, almost Gilbertian in its attempt to set the world right by standing it on its head...