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Babbitt self-satisfied conformer to middle-class ideas and ideals. [Am. Lit: Babbitt] See : Middle Class Babbitt anti-intellectual, bourgeois conformist. [Am. Lit.: Babbitt] See : Philistinism How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Thanks to Clifford's careful evocation of Babbittry and jingoism, readers will be intrigued but not surprised to learn that Shanghai briefly supported chapters of the Ku Klux Klan (founded by an American) and a "Shanghai Fascisti" (led by British businessmen). The cup was of course intended to evoke the image of a street beggar, which is what high-minded PBS would have you think it had been reduced to by appalling congressional Babbittry. |
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