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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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| 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. The four-page data sheet, L1015B, details mechanical and physical properties, casting characteristics and pouring temperatures for high-tin and lead-base Babbitts. 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. |
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