Also in 1994, United States Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt first proposed the removal of several Pacific Northwest dams because of their impact on salmon spawning.

In that first year, after a bill to create the holiday failed in the Arizona state legislature, Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt had issued an executive order creating the holiday.

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

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.

If Lewis ' first widely acclaimed novel, Main Street, sought to shatter early 20th-century romanticizations of small-town America, his subsequent work, Babbitt, turned a critical eye towards the celebrated mid-sized industrial city, home to the enterprising American businessman.

In its first year alone, Babbitt sold 140, 997 copies in the United States.

Twice Babbitt has been converted into films, a feat Turner Classic Movies describes as “ impressive for a novel that barely has a plot .” The first was a silent film, released in 1924, starring Willard Louis as George F. Babbitt.

Many of the notions were first elaborated by Howard Hanson ( 1960 ) in connection with tonal music, and then mostly developed in connection with atonal music by theorists such as Allen Forte ( 1973 ), drawing on the work in twelve-tone theory of Milton Babbitt.

The term, "' combinatorial ' appears to have been first applied to twelve-tone music by Milton Babbitt " in 1950, when he published a review of René Leibowitz's books Schoenberg et son école and Qu ' est ce qu la musique de douze sons?

Though that vision was never achieved two factors led to a more innovative and experimental nature at Kirkland: first, the introduction of progressive views of undergraduate education on the part of Millicent C. McIntosh, former President of Barnard College, and second, the mandate to " make a fresh attack on introducing major fields of learning " without being constrained by the more traditional patterns at Hamilton-a mandate embraced by Kirkland's president, Samuel F. Babbitt.

A recent book ( published in 2007 ) by Samuel Fisher Babbitt, Kirkland's only president, Limited Engagement: Kirkland College 1965-1978, An Intimate History of the Rise and Fall of a Coordinate College for Women, provides an in-depth, first person account of Kirkland's brief existence.

Samuel F. Babbitt, and wrote her first works while raising their children in Clinton, NY.

When the song began, one of the band's lead singers ( usually Babbitt ) sang the title phrase, and then the first verse or two of the song was performed instrumentally before the lyrics resumed.

In the introduction to the later edition, Babbitt recollected his thoughts upon reading the work for the first time: “ ere was a book ... which concerned itself interestedly, admiringly, enthusiastically, even affectionately with works of music which, in most academic environments, were unmentionables, untouchables, and unspeakables, and anywhere else were unknowns .” Babbitt specifically mentions his appreciation for her discussion of the serialist composers with accompanying musical examples ; during the Depression years, scores ( especially of new music ) were prohibitively expensive to own personally, and only a few libraries had copies.

Tabitha Babbitt ( 1784 – about 1853 ) was an early American tool maker who is credited with inventing the first circular saw used in a saw mill in 1813.

In 1932 the company developed a new alloy called C-100, the first new bearing material since the discovery of Babbitt metal.

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?

Although published long before Babbitt in 1899, Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class, which critiqued consumer culture and social competition at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, is an oft-cited point of comparison.

) When Babbitt was published, newspapers in Cincinnati, Duluth, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis each claimed that their city was the model for Zenith.

In 1927, English author C. E. M Joad, published The Babbitt Warren, a scathing critique of American society.

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

Babbitt ( 1922 ), by Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), satirizes the American bourgeois George Follansbee Babbitt, a middle-aged realtor, booster, and joiner in the Midwestern city of Zenith, who — despite being unimaginative, self-important, and hopelessly conformist and middle-class — is aware that there must be more to life than money and the consumption of the best things that money can buy.

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

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.

He is also a former student of Milton Babbitt and Edward Cone.

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

In The Nutcracker Suite, animator Art Babbitt is said to have credited The Three Stooges as a guide for animating the dancing mushrooms in the Chinese Dance routine.

Ultimately, Windrip is a venal and cynical showman who plays to the conformist resentments Lewis diagnosed in Main Street and Babbitt.

Babbitt is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

Babbitt is named after Judge Kurnal R. Babbitt of New York City.

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

Babbitt is home to a few NCAA division one hockey players, most notably: Buzz Schneider-University of Minnesota, Steve Schneider-Notre Dame, Greg Woods-Denver University and Mike Krensing-University of Minnesota Duluth.

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

Babbitt is the only Arizona governor to have completed two four-year terms with nine years of service.

Babbitt wrote a book in 2005 titled Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America, where he proposes to amend the Endangered Species Act so that it is used to identify, conserve, and protect landscapes, watersheds, and ecosystems whether or not an endangered species exists there.

Babbitt is also credited with creating the character of Goofy, a character which he later described in the 1987 documentary film " Animating Art ":

An immediate and controversial bestseller, Babbitt is one of Lewis ’ best-known novels and was influential in the decision to award him the Nobel Prize in literature in 1930.

George F. Babbitt, the principal character of the novel, is described by the 1930 Nobel Prize committee as “ the ideal of an American popular hero of the middle-class.

" This is not true for Zenith, Babbitt ’ s literary home.

As much as Babbitt is about the American businessman, it is also about American cities.

As one reviewer puts it: “ There is no plot whatever … Babbitt simply grows two years older as the tale unfolds .” Lewis presents a chronological series of scenes in the life of his title character.

Each item Babbitt encounters is explained, from the high-tech alarm clock, which Babbitt sees as a marker of social status, to the rough camp blanket, a symbol of the freedom and heroism of the West.