Tolkien's concept of hobbits, in turn, seems to have been inspired by Edward Wyke Smith's 1927 children's book The Marvellous Land of Snergs, and by Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel Babbitt.

In 1922, Mrs. Edward Babbitt was elected the first female mayor of New Albany.

Babbitt, first published in 1922, is a novel by Sinclair Lewis.

In 1922, writer Vachel Lindsay, wrote a poem titled, “ The Babbitt Jambouree .”

Boosterism is also a major theme of two novels by Sinclair Lewis — Main Street ( published 1920 ) and Babbitt ( 1922 ).

Since the 1920s, numerous authors, such as Sinclair Lewis in his 1922 novel Babbitt, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his 1925 classic, The Great Gatsby, satirized or ridiculed materialism in the chase for the American dream.

However, Main Street is generally considered to be Lewis's most significant and enduring work, along with its 1922 successor Babbitt.

* George F. Babbitt, the central character of Babbitt, a 1922 novel by Sinclair Lewis

* Zenith is a city in Sinclair Lewis's fictional state of Winnemac, and the setting for his 1922 novel Babbitt.

In 1987, the Arnold Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles commissioned the settings of the remaining twenty-nine poems that Schoenberg had neglected, using his original scoring ( Sprechstimme optional ), by sixteen American composers: Milton Babbitt, Leslie Bassett, Susan Morton Blaustein, Paul Cooper, Miriam Gideon, John Harbison, Donald Harris, Richard Hoffmann, Karl Kohn, William Kraft, Ursula Mamlok, Steve Mosco, Marc Neikrug, Mel Powell, Roger Reynolds, and Leonard Rosenman.

Hapgood audiotaped and transcribed a number of Babbitt's " trance lectures " which purported to come from Jesus, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, and the Hindu god Vishnu, using the material to publish his final three books: Voices of Spirit, Through the Psychic Experience of Elwood Babbitt ( 1975 ), Talks with Christ and His Teachers Through the Psychic Gift of Elwood Babbitt ( 1981 ), and The God Within: a Testament of Vishnu, a Handbook for the Spiritual Renaissance ( 1982 ).

Babbitt said his own title for the article was " The Composer as Specialist " ( as it was later published several times, including in Babbitt 2003, 48 – 54 ), and " The editor, without my knowledge and — therefore — my consent or assent, replaced my title by the more ' provocative ' one: ' Who Cares if You Listen?

Bruce Edward Babbitt ( born June 27, 1938 ), a Democrat, served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as the 16th governor of Arizona, from 1978 to 1987.

Arthur Harold Babitsky ( October 8, 1907 – March 4, 1992 ), better known as Art Babbitt, was an American animator, best known for his work at The Walt Disney Company.

Babbitt worked as an animator or animation director on such films as The Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), and The Incredible Mr. Limpet ( 1964 ), among others.

Babbitt worked with director Jack Kinney, another " Goofy man " ( meaning that they worked together on the Goofy shorts ), as Disney began to look for ways to be rid of Babbitt.

Along with some other former Disney strikers, Babbitt left Disney and went to join the United Productions of America ( UPA ), a new studio which pioneered a modern, simplified form of animation.

The documentary was produced and directed by Imogen Sutton ( Richard Williams wife ), and features extensive interviews with Babbitt and his then employer, Richard Williams.

From 1988 to 1990, McCurry served as director of communications for the Democratic National Committee, and served as press secretary for the presidential campaigns of John Glenn ( 1984 ), Bruce Babbitt ( 1988 ), and Bob Kerrey, ( 1992 ), as well as the 1988 vice-presidential campaign for Lloyd Bentsen.

The list of composers who wrote inspired by tango music also includes John Cage in Perpetual Tango ( 1984 ), John Harbison in " Tango Seen from Ground Level " ( 1991 ), and Milton Babbitt in " It Takes Twelve to Tango " ( 1984 ).

< http :// www. oxfordreference. com > 27 October 2011 </ ref > Clement Greenberg sees modernism ending in the 1930s, with the exception of the visual and performing arts, but with regard to music, Paul Griffiths notes that, while modernism " seemed to be a spent force " by the late 1920s, after World War II, " a new generation of composers-Boulez, Barraqué, Babbitt, Nono, Stockhausen, Xenakis " revived modernism .< ref > Paul Griffiths " modernism " The Oxford Companion to Music.

" Babbitt and Sondheim were both fascinated with mathematics and together they studied songs by various composers, especially Jerome Kern.

These greetings were written by: Sheila Hancock, Julia McKenzie, Milton Babbitt, Judi Dench, and Glynis Johns.

* Plutarch, ( 1936 ) De Iside et Osiride, edited by Frank C. Babbitt

Full text of De Iside et Osiride as translated by Frank Cole Babbitt.

Yet, Babbitt sublimates his desire for self-respect and does encourage his son to rebel against the conformity that results from bourgeois prosperity, by recommending that he be true to himself: “ Don ’ t be scared of the family.

Of Disney studio animators, Art Babbitt is most regarded for the creation of the Goofy character, while original concept drawings were by Frank Webb.

Translated by Babbitt, Frank C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 305.

* Milton Babbitt wrote a song called " Philomel " based on the story, with a libretto by poet John Hollander, for vocalist Bethany Beardslee accompanied by synthesizer and recorded soprano.

It was animated by Art Babbitt, Dick Huemer, Dick Lundy, and Ward Kimball and directed by Wilfred Jackson.

The company town was built to process taconite mined and shipped by train from Babbitt, MN, sixty miles to the northwest.

Babbitt is surrounded by the Superior National Forest and often has wild animals like deer and wolves within the city limits.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt tells of a family that was given eternal youth after drinking from a spring.

Bevo is also mentioned in the short story " The Killers " by Ernest Hemingway ; as well as in Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.

Although he would eventually shift his focus away from electronic music, the genre that first gained for him public notice, by the 1980s, Babbitt wrote both electronic music and music for conventional musical instruments, often combining the two.

" Tolkien wrote to W. H. Auden that The Marvellous Land of Snergs " was probably an unconscious source-book for the Hobbits " and he told an interviewer that the word hobbit " might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt " ( like hobbits, George Babbitt enjoys the comforts of his home ).

* Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

* Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, author of Babbitt, cited the Middletown studies as examples of the banality and shallowness of American life.

Sinclair Lewis's novel Babbitt includes an extensive passage in which the title character reads from Three Black Pennies.

Besides its other associations, Updike may have chosen the name Rabbit for his character for its echo of Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, whose main theme " focuses on the power of conformity, and the vacuity of middle-class American life.