Word: babbittism
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...Brother Babbitt. Thus have the winds of doctrine blown, each attracting its own set of followers. But for a large number of intellectuals, the outstanding basis of faith, the one standard with a truly universal appeal, is not any school of thought, but America herself. "An avowed aloof ness from national feeling," Lionel Trilling says, "is no longer the first ceremonial step into the life of thought . . . For the first time in the history of the modern American intellectual, America is not to be conceived of as a priori the vulgarest and stupidest nation of the world...
...means quietly-simply because they have heard talk of despair. Many of them, if you catch them unawares, look as if they were enjoying themselves, and not merely enjoying their unhappiness. In fact ... it begins to look nowadays in our perspective as if Sinclair Lewis and George F. Babbitt were brothers, under the skin...
Died. Guy Bridges Kibbee, 70, bottle-bald comedian of stage (Torch Song) and screen (Babbitt, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), best known to moviegoers for his "Scattergood Baines" series and early Shirley Temple films; of Parkinson's disease; in East Islip...
...Others: Roger Sessions, Leon Kirchner, Milton Babbitt, Andrew Imbrie...
...Silver Bay and Babbitt, two five-year-old taconite mining communities built by Reserve Mining Co. in remote northeastern Minnesota, company-built homes are sold to employees on longterm, no-cash-down mortgages held by the company. Says Reserve President W. M. Kelley: "Good communities are essential to our operation. If we are to compete successfully, we must continue to attract skilled, high-type men who want to own their own homes and run their own communities...