10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BABBITTRY»
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Babbittry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Babbittry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
He was, when young, a Babbitt himself, and to this day he has not ceased trying
to transmute the activities of Babbittry into the stuff of dreams and fantasy. But that
Broun is in error the slightest glance at Lindsay's biography is enough to show.
Thomas King Whipple, 1963
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The Saturday Evening Post
It is, for instance, not Babbittry to adore your mother, if she happens to be
adorable — many intelligent men have — it is only Babbittry when this affection is
used for commercial and standardized purposes, as has been the case
sometimes in ...
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single method : By definition : — I have never seen Babbittry exactly defined, but I
think what it means is fairly clear. It is not a matter of class or education. A king ...
Americans have long since absorbed the criticism of Sinclair Lewis; today's
Babbitts are ironic about their Babbittry, if contemporary advertising is to be taken
as typical. Babbitt was the face of the American future while Bloom, in his interest
in ...
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Male Sexuality Under Surveillance: Office In American Literature
22 As Veblen and Lewis were aware, manliness and “normal” masculinity
actually relied upon standardization and upon the conformity that becomes
evident in the language of “Babbittry,” the clichés and stock phrases. Eby
concludes that ...
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Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American ...
"Babbittry" most famously refers to Sinclair Lewis's portrait of the smalltown
businessman of 1920, George F. Babbitt. We might remember George Babbitt as
a booster and philistine, the apparent opposite of a Harvard professor of French ...
Christopher Newfield, 2003
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Greenwich Village, 1920-1930: A Comment on American ...
They regretted the coming of apartment houses which spelled the Babbittry which
they repudiated. They regretted the bohemian reputation and the bohemian
practices which surrounded them. They regretted the multitude of speakeasies
and ...
Caroline Farrar Ware, 1935
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Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946-1996
“Taken as a whole,” one young writer pro' claimed, “the city's defects — its moral
and cultural pretensions, its glad' handing commercialism and Babbittry, its
cynicism toward the arts, its suburban spread, its flatulent middle class, its
leaders' ...
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Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals: Babbitt Jr. Vs. the ...
The essence of all Babbittry, senior or junior, is stereotypes. The stereotypes of
Babbitt Senior are the following words and connotations: solid, reliable, sound,
businesslike, wholesome, and knows-how-to-meet-a-payroll. Junior's
stereotyped ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion
Someone who is unimaginative and conforms to traditional values (noun
Babbittry) It was President Woodrow Wilson, she shows, who first advocated 'a
global traffic in values as well as commodities,' with little regard for sovereignty,
and the ...
Andrew Delahunty, Sheila Dignen, 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BABBITTRY»
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Babbittry is used in the context of the following news items.
Reinventing Comics
I wanted to circumcise the sucker and transplant him from the Jazz Age from whence he came to the Age of Anxiety, from Babbittry and Dale ... «East Hampton Star, Jun 15»
Archdiocese Preparing for Pope Francis Visit to Philadelphia
Which is not real Catholicism, but Babbittry. Fortunately, Chaput came in a distant second, in the recent election of a new head of the USCCB; ... «NBC 10 Philadelphia, Jan 14»
Storied Providence Skyscraper, Now Empty, Seeks a Future
Winning hopeful huzzahs and inspiring advertising Babbittry — “A Business Building for Building Business” — the skyscraper welcomed ... «New York Times, Nov 13»
'Self-Help Messiah' Dale Carnegie Gets A Second Life In Print
It's easy, of course, for we contemporary readers to dismiss Carnegie's teaching as mere boosterism and Babbittry, but his self-help legacy has ... «NPR, Nov 13»
A. Scott Berg on the 1920s and Al Jolson's Afro-Jewish Balancing Act
Sinclair Lewis—with his stark evocations of Midwestern social sterility, religious hypocrisy, and Babbittry—became the first American author to win the Nobel ... «Vanity Fair, Sep 13»
'Tweet Me in St. Louis' Is This Web Site's Goal
Mr. Perlut says his support for St. Louis is not boosterism or Babbittry. “We're not kidding ourselves; this is not going to fix everything that affects ... «New York Times, Nov 12»
VA: Richmond's Redskins deal raises legal questions
“The city could, of course, alter the terms of its proposed deal to conform with the Constitution's language and, considering the local Babbittry is ... «Watchdog.org, Nov 12»
Cyber-Babbittry: Conventionality and Banality Are Alive and Well on …
cover Babbittry's an old word but hardly a dead concept. It first emerged — by that name, anyway — 90 years ago with the publication of ... «The Millions, Nov 12»
American Dreams: 'Babbitt' by Sinclair Lewis
Frank's point is that the satire is harmless, itself a form of Babbittry. After all, even good old Uncle George himself has a crisis of faith, and flirts ... «Daily Beast, Mar 12»
Melancholy Frontiers
... “Infinite Jest”), “The Remains of the Day” a long lesson in butlering and “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” a simple Russian example of pre-Babbittry. «New York Times, Nov 11»
