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...Harvard freshman I was an innocent rationalist and Wilsonian Democrat. Even while I was an undergraduate, and with the generous enthusiasm of my tutor Harold Laski to fortify me, the influence of the late Irving Babbitt began to undermine the foundations of that belief...
...sense, I have been ever since trying to reconcile the contrary influences of Laski and Babbitt. Towards that reconciliation--which would no doubt be unsatisfactory to both men--I have been greatly helped by my friendship with the late Lawrence Henderson. Briefly, my earlier optimistic rationalism has been tempered by an awarness of the place of prejudices, sentiments, the unconscious, and the subconscious in human life...
...Disney was far more than a Br'er Babbitt who made it big cracker-barreling the virtues of hard work and good clean fun. He was, as Schickel generously illustrates, a masterful organizer, bold technological innovator and a zealous, often ruthless go-getter in the idealized American tradition. He had a compulsion to order, cleanse and control in ever-expanding circles. Disneyland, once described as "the world's biggest toy lor the world's biggest boy," consumed most of his interest in the last years of his life. When it came to technical matters...
...AWARDS PRESENTATION OF THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES (ABC, 10 p.m. to conclusion). Angie Dickinson, Macdonald Carey, Barbra Streisand, Audrey Hepburn, Warren Beatty, Kirk Douglas and Carol Channing join Bob (still-waiting-for-an-Oscar) Hope in this year's presentations. of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt (1922) and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939). Pat Hingle and Richard Boone read selections from the two works...
...NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Great American Novel." Eric Sevareid discusses the contemporary relevance of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt (1922) and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939). Pat Hingle and Richard Boone read selections from the two works...