Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Monday, July 14, 2003
One of Sinclair Lewis's targets in his famed sociological novel Babbitt was the press, which was as good at promoting Babbittry as the novel's name sake, and all he stood for: mindless backslapping, mindless civic pride, mindless philistinism.
Thankfully, Babbittry lives in Detroit.
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