Word: babbittism
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...There's nobody out there. No dominant, charismatic leader of the Democratic party. Babbitt, Bumpers, who has ever heard of these guys? If he enters the race he has as good a chance as anyone...
...five scholars will discuss Calvino's work and ideas at 61 Kirkland St. at 8 p.m., organizer and Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature Dante Della Terza said yesterday. The symposium is open to the public...
...gambling debts on the very night of his Yale graduation. Why, he is still wearing his dinner jacket. His first seatmate on the flight has been "Tom Tuttle from Tacoma" (John Candy), who reads books about maximizing his potential capital-wise and is the most egregious go-getter since Babbitt. His next is Beth Wexler (Rita Wilson), who rejects a night and a day of advances, to Lawrence's immense puzzlement ("I do think I've put in the hours, don't you?"). The rest of this ship of idealists bellows away the time with endless choruses of '60s sing...
...that one song, written for the 1914 show The Girl from Utah, Kern virtually created the prototype for the modern American ballad. From that moment (when his music was already entrancing a couple of teenagers named Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin) to this (when Composers Stephen Sondheim and Milton Babbitt have written appreciations of his work), Kern's revolution has continued unsilenced. It should last for another hundred years, and maybe for as long as anyone can carry a tune...
...leaders and the National Committee are making the appropriate public noises about cooperating. "We will be very supportive," says Gephardt; indeed, according to Robb, the council has + reserved an ex officio seat for Kirk should he care to join. Kirk for his part promises to put Gephardt and Babbitt on a policy council that he intends to form within the National Committee. Even so, the Democrats would be left with two bodies seeking to set policy and arguing about how to unify the party. In other words, they are acting like Democrats...