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...into the genealogies of both men and their families as well as giving a detailed geographic and geologic history of the region. Ashley is fearless and worldly; yet he is a simple innocent, a hero-victim in mankind's headlong flight from the primal ooze. Lansing is a Babbitt, successful in business, boastful and bullying-a man who stands in direct contrast to the Ashleys of this world...
Surprise Momentum. Not everyone gets a charge out of Stockhausen's electro-innovations. But the upper echelons of electronic composers, which include America's Vladimir Ussachevsky and Milton Babbitt, consider him the most inventive. French Composer Pierre Boulez, who is himself pretty handy with a modulator, says flatly that "Stockhausen is the greatest living composer, and the only one whom I recognize as my peer." Stockhausen tends to agree. Aggressively indifferent to criticism, he is interested only in exploring every corner of the aural landscape. He has completely done away with traditional music forms, conceives his works instead...
...novel's title is an allusion to Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge,* which Barney read at 14. At 40, he now admits that "nothing stayed with me but the title." And James quickly makes clear that he is no Lewis-style caricature of a Babbitt businessman. As the head of a New England wood-products factory, he has a fierce and principled pride in the quality of what he makes and in the dignity of the men who work for him. His resources as a human being are as varied as the generation...
...poorest of Sinclair Lewis' Midwestern novels, written in the late 1920s. Its businessman anti-hero is Lowell Schmaltz, who lives in Zenith, admires George Babbitt, and delivers endless monologues on Calvin Coolidge, cafeterias, motor trips, radio, etc. Coolidge sample: "Maybe he isn't what my daughter would call so 'Ritzy' ... he may not shoot off a lot of fireworks, but you know what he is? He's SAFE...
...that the New Boston has turned from a seditious idea to a Babbitt cliche, how is the former lifeblood of the city faring beneath the limelight of the Pru? It is not faring well. Boston's major problem as a harbor is usually summed up in two words: New York. Boston has never really recovered from those years in the mid-1800's when the upstart Knickerbockers took away not only the prestige, but most of the business, of the foreign trade. When domestic trade came to be handled almost entirely by railroads and trucks, Boston had to compete...