To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.

In Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ) – which was produced in 1944 but not released until 1946 – Kelly collaborated with Fred Astaire – for whom he had the greatest admiration – in the famous " The Babbitt and the Bromide " challenge dance routine.

Stanley Jordan was born in Chicago, Illinois, and he received a BA in digital music composition from Princeton University in 1981, studying under computer-music composers Paul Lansky and Milton Babbitt.

" 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 ).

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.

Judge Babbitt, who died on February 15, 1920, was general counsel for and a director of several mining companies.

The city of Babbitt was left with the buildings due to the default of loans given to the company.

Franklin G. Babbitt, US Navy submarine commander, Naval Attaché and Defense Attaché to Moscow, was raised in Rushford.

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

It tells the story of an abrasive and selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond, an autistic savant of whose existence Charlie was unaware.

When the need was realized, Frank Jones, Otis Lovercheck, John Bunn, Harve Babbitt and Nels Sherard started a fund raising project.

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

Milton Byron Babbitt ( May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011 ) was an American composer, music theorist, and teacher.

Babbitt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( Barkin & Brody 2001 ) to Albert E. Babbitt and Sarah Potamkin.

Babbitt's father was a mathematician, and it was mathematics that Babbitt intended to study when he entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1931.

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?

Babbitt was less interested in producing new timbres than in the rhythmic precision he could achieve using the Mark II synthesizer, a degree of precision previously unobtainable in live performances ( Barkin & Brody 2001 ).

Babbitt's brother, Paul Babbitt, was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 2004.

Disney was forced to re-hire Babbitt after the strike was over, along with many other strikers, but by now the two men hated one another.

Looking out over a lake Babbitt comments: “ I ’ d just like to sit here – the rest of my life – and whittle – and sit.

The poured Babbitt bearings commonly get over 50, 000 miles of use before needing replacement.

The company has produced many varieties of britannia and silver products since Henry G. Reed and Charles E. Barton took over the failing works of Isaac Babbitt in Taunton.

Babbitt was elected for a full four-year term in 1978, and again in 1982.

Clinton again considered Babbitt for the high court in 1994 when Harry Blackmun announced his retirement.

On the feature film Dumbo, Babbitt was again made a directing animator, and animated the character of the stork.

During 1960, Reynolds met with both Varèse and Cage in New York ( and the latter again in 1961 in Ann Arbor ), with Babbitt in Ann Arbor in 1960, and with Boulanger in Ann Arbor in 1961.

Babitt's influence in China, which was notable in the 1930s and 40s, is again on the rise with the publication of many books by or about Babbitt.

During the Second World War, Babbitt divided his time between mathematical research in Washington, D. C., and Princeton, where he became a member of the mathematics faculty from 1943 to 1945 ( Barkin & Brody 2001 ).

After serving with the Marines in the Pacific in World War II, Babbitt returned to Disney for a time, following an unfair labor practices suit brought by Babbitt against Disney.

Although many other popular novelists writing at the time of Babbitt ’ s publication depict the “ Roaring Twenties ” as an era of social change and disillusionment with material culture, modern scholars argue that Lewis was not himself a member of the " lost generation " of younger writers like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, or Joyce.

They were good for potential business partnerships, getting time away from home and family life, and quite simply because “ it was the thing to do .” Babbitt admits that while these clubs “ stimulated him like brandy ,” he often found work dull and nerve-wracking in comparison.

In time, Babbitt begins to rebel against all of the standards he formerly held: he jumps into liberal politics with famous socialist litigator Seneca Doane ; conducts an extramarital affair with Tanis ; goes on various vacations ; and cavorts around Zenith with would-be Bohemians and flappers.

In short time, his old friends and colleagues welcome Babbitt back into the fold.

Poured Babbitt bearings are also known to fail gracefully allowing the car to be driven for extended periods of time.

Many political figures of the time appear ( some in cameos, some extended ), including Bruce Babbitt, Bob Dole, Kitty Dukakis, Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson, and Pat Robertson.

At the time Babbitt had switched out of classics ; he would later clarify his position on the contemporary textual and philological scholarship demanded in that area, in the Germanic tradition, as a finite task, which he was unhappy to see placed above teaching based on ' eternal ' content.

Although Crawford preferred to characterize their relationship as one of “ sisterly-motherly love ,” she also acknowledged that at one time, their relationship had bordered becoming sexual, particularly on Bauer's part when she reserved a single hotel room for the two of them at the International Festival of Contemporary Music in Liège in September 1930, which made Crawford “ uncomfortable .” Along with Crawford's perceptions of her relationship with Bauer, Martin Bernstein, a longtime friend of Bauer's and a former chair of the NYU music department, stated: “ s a female, had very little interest in men ( emphasis in original )... At least if she had any romantic liaisons with men, we don't know about it .” Babbitt further substantiated Bernstein's thoughts during an interview about Bauer when he remarked, “ And she was very much a ... let's simply say unmarried.

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.

In serial music a time point set, proposed by Milton Babbitt ( 1962 ), is a temporal order of pitches in a tone row which indicates the instants at which the notes start.

In The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt, edited by Stephen Peles, Stephen Dembski, Andrew Mead, Joseph Straus, 55 – 69.

* Irving Babbitt ( 1987 ) Stephen C. Brennan and Stephen R. Yarbrough,

* British and American authors such as Fisher Ames, John Randolph of Roanoke, Orestes Brownson, John Henry Newman, Walter Bagehot, Henry James Sumner Maine, William Edward Hartpole Lecky, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, William Hurrell Mallock, Leslie Stephen, Albert Venn Dicey, Robert Nisbet, Paul Elmer More, and Irving Babbitt.