Word: babbittism
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...arts have always cherished non-commercial pretensions, as if they were a refuge of purity and a counterweight to Mammon. Writers were supposed to belong to a guardian priesthood, whose duty enjoined, at bottom, a strict truth-telling. They were not necessarily required to engage in muckraking or anti-Babbitt, anti-commercial screeds equating business and money-making with Philistinism. But at a deeper level, the writer's vocation, he and she have assumed, had to do with getting to the truth of things, even when making up stories. The goal of product-placement advertising, on the other hand...
...Theodore Babbitt, 18, was arrested by HUPD at 52 Mt. Auburn St. for Class A drug possession...
...Clinton found a way to expand his environmental role beyond vetoing Republican proposals. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt introduced him to the glories of the Antiquities Act, which allows the President to declare an area of historic or scientific interest a national monument without having to go through a potentially hostile Congress. Roosevelt used the act in 1908 to protect the Grand Canyon. Standing on his predecessor's shoulders, Clinton chose the South Rim of the Grand Canyon as a backdrop for his declaration in 1996 of the 1.7 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah...
According to Hobbs, Marshall scholars often go on to become "leaders in their fields of endeavor." Former scholars include Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt...
...second half of the concert came as somewhat of a disappointment. The Three Interludes (1996) of Richard Wilson '63, served as a substitute for a Milton Babbitt piece that was to have been premiered at the concert (apparently Babbitt could not finish the piece in time). The interludes comprise two moderate-tempo movements and a scherzo-like middle movement. The piano accompaniment is harmonically inventive, but the violin line sometimes suffers from a lack of development. Still, Schulte and Winn played the piece with accuracy and enthusiasm...