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He is also a former student of Milton Babbitt and Edward Cone.
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.
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 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 ":
Babbitt, first published in 1922, is a novel by Sinclair Lewis.
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.
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.
" 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.

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

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On January 18, 2001 Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt created the Kingman Reef National Wildlife Refuge during his final days in office with Secretary ’ s Order 3223.
In 1983, Babbitt sent the Arizona National Guard to the strike against Phelps Dodge in Morenci, Arizona.
Babbitt spoke at the 1980 Democratic National Convention, which nominated incumbent Jimmy Carter as the Democratic candidate for President.
In 2000 Babbitt created the National Landscape Conservation System, a collection of 15 U. S. National Monuments and 14 National Conservation Areas to be managed by the Bureau of Land Management in such a way as to keep them " healthy, open, and wild.
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.
On April 19, 1994, the tunnel was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt.
In addition, the school's facilities include 2 full court gymnasiums, a 25 meter indoor pool, a state of the art weight and aerobics room with full-time trainers, athletic training room with full-time staff, full locker rooms for women, men and visiting teams, The Miller Bugliari ' 52 World Cup Field ( which has hosted World Cup practices for the ' 94 Italian National team and the ' 02 United States National team ) for soccer and baseball, Parsons Field ( which offers stadium seating, a press-box and a scoreboard with a sound system ) for football, lacrosse and track and field events, total that allow for a cross-country course, 12 tennis courts, and numerous practice fields including the John Babbitt ' 07 Memorial Field.
The National Humanities Institute runs an Irving Babbitt Project.
* Irving Babbitt Project ( National Humanities Institute )

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