Word: babbittism
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...single most interesting piece in The Man from Main Street is an unpublished introduction to Babbitt in which Lewis discussed his caricature of "the Tired Business Man . . . who plays third-rate golf and first-rate poker at a second-rate country club." But there are other, highly readable things: a sly reminiscence of a month spent with Upton Sinclair in a Utopian-socialist community; a group of sketches about his apprenticeship as a reporter ; a picture of Jack London trying to read Henry James and bursting out with a wail: "Do any of you know what all this junk...
...fewer wormwood cocktails, fewer canapes of neurosis and despair, than in previous years. A selfconsciously written, cliché-laden, but interesting novel, Executive Suite, by Cameron Hawley, even dared to draw an understanding picture of a U.S. corporation and of a businessman who was not a cross between Babbitt and Captain Bligh...
...that Manhattan's F. George Steiner, also 23, had run off with the second top literary honor, the Chancellor's Prize for an English Essay. Indeed, commented the Isis, Oxford had never before felt such an "unmistakable transatlantic influence . . . The American may hustle and bustle like Mr. Babbitt selling his motor cars,* but in Oxford he tries hard, means well, and he gets things done...
...original George F. Babbitt, according to his creator, Sinclair Lewis, sold real estate...
...years, Reserve will be producing 2,500,000 tons of ore yearly from taconites, and its ultimate goal is 10 million tons. To achieve it, Reserve plans to spend $260 million. It is building two new towns for 5,000 workers, a 40-mile railway to haul taconite from Babbitt, Minn, to the bigger plant at Beaver Bay. It is linking two Lake Superior islands by breakwaters to handle the loading of finished...