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Babbitt

Satirical novel 1922 by Sinclair Lewis about a Midwestern businessman obsessed with commerce, clubs, and material values. ‘Babbittry’ came to mean a type of Middle American cultureless innocence.



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In place of the heroic, but rationally controlled, conception of manliness offered us by the ancients, modern thinkers give us a pallid, cautious, risk-averse bourgeois manliness--a world of Babbitts, rather than Achilles.
Being a Man; Harvey Mansfield ponders the male of the species by Sommers, Christina Hoff / The Weekly Standard
The four-page data sheet, L1015B, details mechanical and physical properties, casting characteristics and pouring temperatures for high-tin and lead-base Babbitts.
Metals Data Sheet by Modern Casting
For each idyllic fable about the virtues of life in small communities, one could counter with fables of Peyton Place or the narrow-mindedness of the Babbitts of Main Street.
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Heckman, James J. / Reason
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