Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of Lewis' novels are variations of Babbitt. Sam Dodsworth (who seems to improve with age) is an upper-class Babbitt with more dignity and deeper insights ("he sometimes enjoyed Beethoven"). Elmer Gantry is a Babbitt with a clerical collar and the courage of his disbelief; "Buzz" Windrip (the American dictator in It Can't Happen Here) is Babbitt running amuck with a submachine...
...Bipartisan Policy. When the committee read off a list of hoodlums and racketeers, Willie admitted cheerfully that he knew almost all of them, from Lucky Luciano on back to Al Capone. Asked who had introduced him to Capone, Willie stared in disbelief, said: "Listen, well-charactered people, you don't need introductions; you just meet automatically." Asked what political clubs he belonged to, he answered simply: "I don't belong to any; I am bipartisan...
...young composer's Symphony for Organ and Orchestra. Copland sent the symphony society a modest bill ("maybe $25, I've forgotten"), and was paid. When Copland told old,time U.S. Composer Henry F. Gilbert about his check, Gilbert clasped his head in mingled joy and disbelief...
...compelling was the Band's music that from several doorways came hastily-clad Princetons escorting girls in negligees and fur coats. Then, as the dates of the Band members stared through their fingers in disbelief, a nude Tiger in a highly agitated state appeared on a fourth floor ledge and shouted a greeting to the visitors...
Skeptics & Reformers. Though it had been shouted from hilltops, none in Santa Severina believed it would really come about. A system that for generations had kept Santa Severinians hungry, thirsty, dirty, diseased and in despair could never end. Despite the local disbelief, Ente Sila (government agency for land distribution and improvement) patiently and doggedly pushed...