Word: babbittism
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Harry T. Levin, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, William Alfred, professor of English, and Daniel Seltzer, assistant professor of English and acting director of the Loeb Drama Center, informed, challenged and entertained an attentive audience of more than 200 in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...that industrial money-"brazen new money," as Edith Newbold Jones Wharton called it -began to change the face of New York. Wharton was the first American novelist to use the breakup of preindustrial American society as the stuff of fiction-Sinclair Lewis, in recognition of the fact, dedicated Babbitt to her-but she was in some ways the last to understand it. Her best pre-World War I novels (The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country) were groping toward an understanding, and her failure to achieve such an understanding was finally the measure of her failure to become...
Hubley regards commercial success with a suspicion born of the knowledge of its dangers for his art. He saw mass production turn the Disney studio into a factory. He watched success transform his McGoo from a Babbitt into a sadist-joke. And worst of all, as supervisor of animation at UPA and then director of Storyboard Productions, his own company, he has felt the expansionist pressures of a commercial world forcing him into administrative positions, removing him from the creative work he loves...
Harry T. Levin '33, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, and Alfred B. Harbage, Henry and Anne Cabo Professor of English Literature, join several other scholars on the committee...
Marco Millions, by Eugene O'Neill, seemed a ponderous, pontifical play when it was first produced in 1928, and it has not improved with age. O'Neill's idea was to cast Marco Polo as the go-getting, money-grubbing Babbitt from Polo Bros., Venice, whose travels to Cathay and the kingdom of Kublai Khan result in a grand confrontation of Eastern and Western values. More symbol than satire, the play is a contrived collision of abstractions rather than a felt conflict of human beings...