Babbitt

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Babbitt (novel) is a 1922 novel by Sinclair Lewis. It can also refer to:

  • A now rare epithet derived from the Sinclair Lewis book of the same name, loosely defined as an uncultured "square", a typically middle-aged and middle-class businessman characterized by the timidity and ignorance of their philistinism.

  • Art Babbitt (1907-1992), an American animator
  • Bruce Babbitt (born 1938), a United States Secretary of the Interior during the Clinton administration
  • Dina Babbitt (born 1923), an American painter
  • Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), an American academic and literary critic.
  • Milton Babbitt (born 1916), an American composer of serial and electronic music
  • Platt D. Babbitt (1832-1879), an American photographer who lived and worked in Niagara Falls and pioneered tourist photography shot from a pavilion on the U.S. side of the fals

  • Babbitt, [[Minnesota], in the United States
  • Babbitt, a section of the township of North Bergen, New Jersey, United States, formerly the site of a large railroad yard

  • Babbitt metal, any of a number of white metal alloys used for bearings
  • "Babbit" is the half-bat, half-rabbit narrator that often transcends the fourth wall in the anime Kodocha
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