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- noun
narrow minded materialism
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Not many Americans still use the word babbittry, that wonderful term for naive boosterism similar to that of the title character of Babbitt.
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Not many Americans still use the word babbittry, that wonderful term for naive boosterism similar to that of the title character of Babbitt.
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Sinclair Lewis invented a character, George F. Babbitt, who inspired a noun, babbittry
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But babbittry may help to explain the plight of my former colleague Donald Rosenberg, who was demoted last week to an arts-and-entertainment reporter from his longtime post as the senior classical music critic at the Plain Dealer.
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But babbittry may help to explain the plight of my former colleague Donald Rosenberg, who was demoted last week to an arts-and-entertainment reporter from his longtime post as the senior classical music critic at the Plain Dealer.
rolig commented on the word babbittry
probably should be capitalized: Babbittry - comes from the eponymous hero of Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel Babbitt - a conventional, conformist businessman.
December 6, 2007
bilby commented on the word babbittry
Funny about the caps, seems an accident of history as to whether they stick or not. I'm happy with both Dickensian stereotypes and macadamised roads yet both are derived from proper names.
December 6, 2007