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The BABBIT Test

“His name was George F. Babbitt,” Sinclair Lewis wrote nearly 50 years ago, early on in his great dismemberment of the American businessman, the Midwest, and bourgeois provincial culture. “He was 46 years old now, in April 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in […]

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