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	Babbitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Babbitt is a classic novel by the American novelist and playwright Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1922.
		Babbitt takes to the word liberal as literally meaning "not instantly critical of the left", rather than as an agenda for a set of social programs, and even though he is a conservative businessman.
		Babbitt, is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Babbitt (331 words)

	THE POWER OF CONFORMITY IN THE NOVEL BABBITT. Essay Sample. Free term papers for college students
		Babbitt's true desires however are not those of society he dreams of nature instead of modernization, young women instead of his wife, adventure instead of standardization, and he secretly sympathizes with certain groups he is supposed to despise because of their non-conformist nature.
		Babbitt was proud of being awakened by such a rich device."(Babbitt pg.3) Babbitt praises the technology of his alarm clock only because it is a symbol of material worth and therefore social status.
		Babbitt can dimly see the flaws in his life but feels powerless to change his fate and become a better man. Babbitt feels the pressure of conformist society and begins to witness the control it has over his life.
	www.essaysample.com /essay/003045.html (1715 words)

	Babbitt
		Babbitt is a classic novel by the American novelist and playwright Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1922.
		Babbitt takes to the word liberal as literally meaning "not instantly critical of the left", rather than as an agenda for a set of social programs, and even though he is a conservative businessman.
		Babbitt, is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Babbitt.htm (337 words)

	Irving Babbitt Biography / Biography of Irving Babbitt Main Biography
		This conservatism in an era increasingly concerned with modernism made Babbitt and the New Humanists lightning rods for derision from the prevailing cultural critics, including Sinclair Lewis, who allegedly named the repressed title character of his 1922 novel Babbitt after him, a
		Babbitt and the New Humanists perceived that Western culture had been negatively impacted by the naturalism of eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which was, in turn, perpetuated by the reliance on intuition and emotion in the works of the nineteenth-century Romantic era.
		Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) and Paul Elmer More were the two chief proponents of the New Humanist movement in the first half of the twentieth century.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-irving-babbitt (216 words)

	Main Street (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The satirical novel Main Street by Sinclair Lewis was published in 1920.
		However, Main Street is generally considered to be Lewis' most significant and endearing work, along with its 1922 successor Babbitt.
		Main Street is important for a number of reasons--among them is the portrayal of a strong female protagonist, and what one might now call feminist themes by a male writer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Main_Street_(novel) (591 words)

	F.A.Q.
		All of this fails, and at the end of the novel Babbitt is back with his family, hoping that his son will have a life different from the one he has had (although it doesn't look like it).
		This juxtaposition of the sacred and the profane is a hallmark of this novel.
		The novel ends as he prays for the United States to be a "moral nation" and simultaneously admires the legs of a new choir singer.
	www.english.ilstu.edu /separry/sinclairlewis/faq1.html (1299 words)

	Main Street Summary & Essays - Sinclair Lewis
		It was the first in a string of novels written by Sinclair Lewis in the 1920s, including Babbitt, Arrowsmith, and Elmer Gantry, that established him as one of the preeminent authors of American literature.
		Main Street, originally published in 1920, is the story of a sophisticated young woman who moves to a small town in the American Midwest in 1912 and struggles against the small-minded culture of the citizens who live there.
		Main Street was an immediate, phenomenal success when it was published in 1920, making it the book of the century up to that point.
	www.enotes.com /main-street (283 words)

	Booknotes
		Then he -- he went through a -- he was developing a system for writing novels, and he -- so he -- after he did the research, he filled this notebook full of stuff.
		Babbitt's a real estate man. And so that -- that started the research.
		After "Main Street" was a big success, he went to Europe, and he went all over Europe.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1666 (6981 words)

	Main Street at The Vintage Library
		However, Main Street was his first really successful novel in 1920 and his reputation was enhanced by the publication of Babbitt in 1922.
		An allegory of exile and return, Main Street attacks the complacency and ingrown mores of those who resist change, who are under the illusion that they have chosen their tradition.
		The lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness, reflects the position in which America's turn-of-the-century, "emancipated woman" found herself.
	www.vintagelibrary.com /pd.php?pcode=lewis01 (370 words)

	Library of America: Sinclair Lewis: Main Street & Babbitt
		Lewis began to work intensively on Main Street, a novel he had had in mind for several years, in November 1919, and he finished the first draft by February 27, 1920.
		He continued working on the novel after returning to London in January 1922, and when he arrived in New York in May 1922, he delivered the finished typescript to Harcourt.
		Main Street was published on October 23, 1920, by Harcourt, Brace and Howe.
	www.loa.org /volume.jsp?RequestID=73§ion=notes (987 words)

	Amazon.de: Main Street (Dover Thrift Editions): English Books
		MAIN STREET is directed to the small towns, ARROWSMITH to the profession of Medicine, ELMER GANTRY about the superficiality of some preachers and how they can be robbers as well as men of God, and then there's BABBITT, which is about the small time business man who has no moral scruples.
		"Main Street" is, however, first and foremost a work of literature, which tells the story of a young woman, Carol Kennicott, who has to come to grips with life in this small town, whether she likes it or not.
		Main Street is a mercilessly realistic picture of 20th century America - its desires and whims, foibles, passions and hates.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0486406555 (2081 words)

	Babbitt Milton Byron: 3D View of the Web
		Babbitt, Milton Byron - Babbitt, Milton Byron Musical biography with education and influences, the formation of the "Princeton School," unique characteristics, and later electronic works from...
		The daughter of independent thinkers -- famed feminist and author Mary Wollstonecraft and philosopher novelist William Godwin -- Mary was taught to embrace the original, the daring, and the unfamiliar, all of which inspired her ground-breaking debut novel, Frankenstein.
		Babbitt, Milton Byron - Directory Home Encylopedia Directory eShowcase Sitemap Privacy Contact Us Top: Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: B: Babbitt, Milton Byron See Also: Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: By Region: North America: American Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: Contemporary Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: Contemporary: Electronic...
	www.resolve3d.com /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/B/Babbitt,MiltonByron (1056 words)

	Babbitt - definition of Babbitt by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
		, the main character in the novel Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.]
		babbitt - an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; an anti-friction lining for bearings
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	dict.thefreelibrary.com /Babbitt (186 words)

	Tuck Everlasting (Project Based Learning)
		Activity begins with the reading and exploration of the novel, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt.
		Project Based learning activities centered around the novel, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt.
		Students and the teacher will explore the circular patterns that are inherent in the novel.
	imet.csus.edu /imet2/goffa/Tuckweb (230 words)

	Humanistic and Aritistic Resource for Classroom[NCPP: Public Administration Teaching Roundtable]
		Dostoyevsky, Feodor The Possessed 1871 Russia The depiction of a certain kind of universal monomania which regards politics as mainly a game of strategy and calculation to be played by the injured and the oppressed against the rest of society Novel In: Holland, Jr., H.M. ed.
		Dos Passos, John The Grand Design 1928 USA Powes as the basic element of politics; the pursuit and use of power; the President as a manipulator of men ; medley of allegiances and life styles in a youth movement during the New Deal 1966 Novel In: Clowers, M.L., Letendre, L. Understanding American Politics through Fiction.
		Heller, Joseph Closing Time 1994 USA The realm of politics, the general state of society, and the moral shortcomings of the US commerce and culture Novel In: Nichols, K.L. The Unreal Administrator: Lessons and Challenges from Poems, Novels, Movies, Television and Other Stuff.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~ncpp/teaching/TRFiction.htm (230 words)

	Elmer Gantry
		Also appearing in Elmer Gantry are Arthur Kennedy as the obligatory H.L. Mencken-style atheistic journalist, and Edward Andrews as George Babbitt, a character borrowed from another Sinclair Lewis novel.
		Only a portion of Nobel Prize-winner Sinclair Lewis' once-notorious 1927 novel was used for this film adaptation, but since it's the portion in which the evangelizing protagonist sheds his hypocrisy for sincerity, it was enough to appeal to star Burt Lancaster.
		Elmer Gantry (Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wangles a job with the travelling tent ministry conducted by Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons).
	www.theoscarsite.com /pictures1960/gantry.htm (366 words)

	SparkNotes: Arrowsmith: Chapters 1–3
		Furthermore, as a side-note, Zenith, the largest city in Winnemac, is also the city in which the character of Babbitt from Lewis's earlier novel entitled Babbitt lives.
		This is a device that Lewis is using out of cleverness and also for the purpose of tying the themes of his novels together.
		It is 1904, and Martin is a junior in college, preparing for Medical school at the University of Winnemac, which is fifteen miles from the largest city in Winnemac (Zenith).
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/arrowsmith/section1.html (366 words)

	SparkNotes: Arrowsmith: Chapters 1–3
		Furthermore, as a side-note, Zenith, the largest city in Winnemac, is also the city in which the character of Babbitt from Lewis's earlier novel entitled Babbitt lives.
		This is a device that Lewis is using out of cleverness and also for the purpose of tying the themes of his novels together.
		It is 1904, and Martin is a junior in college, preparing for Medical school at the University of Winnemac, which is fifteen miles from the largest city in Winnemac (Zenith).
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/arrowsmith/section1.html (366 words)

	033105.htm
		Though known primarily as a composer of severe serial music, Babbitt also has an encyclopedic knowledge of the music for films and the Broadway stage.
		The influence of Hammerstein and the work with Babbitt undoubtedly solidified Sondheim's expertise in musical theater.
		The original story comes from an autobiographical novel titled Fosca by a writer named Iginio Ugo Tarchetti who died of tuberculosis and typhus in 1869 at the age of 29.
	www.pbs.org /lflc/notes/033105.htm (769 words)

	Fort Worth Weekly Online -- fwweekly.com Film Intimations of Immortality
		Written by Jeffrey Lieber and James V. Hart, based on Natalie Babbitt's novel.
		Based on Natalie Babbitt's 1975 novelette, Tuck Everlasting is set in a fictitious small town called Treegap in 1914.
		Eternal life isn't all it's cracked up to be in the uneven Tuck Everlasting.
	www.fwweekly.com /issues/2002-10-10/film2.html (769 words)

	WBNX-TV Cleveland's WB GILMORE GIRLS' Alexis Bledel Bio
		Bledel made her feature film debut in Tuck Everlasting, based on the acclaimed novel by Natalie Babbitt.
		In 2005, Bledel will appear in four feature films, including a starring role in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, an adaptation of the best-selling novel.
		Alexis Bledel is quickly emerging as one of Hollywood's brightest talents in both film and television.
	www.wbnx.com /shows/gg/gg_bio_alexis_bledel.htm (243 words)

	Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 - Presentation Speech
		The city is a hundred times larger than Gopher Prairie and, therefore, a hundred times richer in one hundred per cent Americanism and one hundred times as satisfied with itself, and the enchantment of its optimism and progressive spirit is embodied in George F. Babbitt.
		He describes the place in his novel Main Street (1920), though there it is called Gopher Prairie.
		Gopher Prairie wants to be like them and finds the time ripe for a campaign of progress, based on the rising war price of wheat.
	nobelprize.org /literature/laureates/1930/press.html (243 words)

	Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapt. Comms. for Ore., 515 U.S. 687 (1995).
		In any event, our reasons for rejecting the Court of Appeals' interpretation apply as well to the dissent's novel construction.
		Hayashi construed the term "harass," part of the definition of "take" in the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, 16 U.S.C. § 1361 et seq.
		Hayashi, 22 F. 3d 859 (CA9 1993) is also misplaced.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/94-859.ZO.html (243 words)

	Lewis, Sinclair. 1922. Babbitt
		The novel behind the name, Babbitt is Sinclair Lewis’s classic commentary on middle-class society.
		George Follanbee Babbitt has acquired everything required to fit neatly into the mold of social expectation—except total comfort with it.
		A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets.
	www.bartleby.com /162 (119 words)

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