Word: babbittism
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...truth is that joining the Peace Corps no longer has quite the glamor it once had-or seemed to have. As Samuel Babbitt, a former Peace Corps staffer and now assistant dean of the Yale Graduate School, points out, the Corps no longer holds for potential volunteers the "tremendous emotional response keyed off by the hero worship of President Kennedy...
...accepted as intellectuals, but with qualifications. Liberal J. Robert Oppenheimer, for instance, is unquestionably accepted, but not necessarily Conservative Edward Teller. Members of other disciplines concede intellectual status only to the most creative and original scientists, relegating the rest into a vast limbo of mere technicians and experts. George Babbitt's sneering at longhairs could not muster anywhere near the savagery of one intellectual's proclaiming that another...
...1920s, the era of Babbitt and Harding, U.S. intellectuals felt themselves rejected and ridiculed by the business civilization. Instead of fighting to improve it, they chose exile in Europe, or that domestic exile which is known as "alienation." In the 1930s, after business had bungled the job of running the country, the intellectuals held a large share of power in the New Deal-and then it was the businessman's turn to feel rejected and ridiculed by "the professors in Washington." By 1953, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. announced that "anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman...
Members of the English Department hope to bring Broadway directors and actors to Harvard in the next few years. According to Harry T. Levin '33, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, tentative plans for such a program have long been "the private fantasy" of many Faculty members concerned with drama in the College...
Those broad grins fold his face into a mass of wrinkles, reminders that the ex-Governor's life was once hard and impoverished. That penchant for shoulder-slapping and small talk reflect the Babbitt-like boosterism which brought him business success during the Depression. That briskly polite, nearly oriental, bow which introduces each handshake reminds one that Volpe's recent years have been graced with comfort and prestige...