 ... carry things on further. I don't know. But I do get a kind of sneaking pleasure out of the fact that you knew what you wanted to do and did it. Well, those folks in there will try to bully you, and tame you down. Tell 'em to go to the devil! I'll...  Points of View - Page 214by Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1924 - 361 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 56 pages
...and tame you down. Tell 'em to go to the devil! I'll back you. Take your factory job, if you want to. Don't be scared of the family. No, nor all of Zenith....individual, perhaps only an intense and difficult one. Babbitt is not a representation of the highest American standards of morals and manners. But neither... | |
 | Sinclair Lewis - 1922 - 420 pages
...Take your factory job^if you want to. Tj'oiTl " be scareToTThe faSrfgT^NOj^" Sor_ ajl^gf^enWbr^orof yourself, the way I've been. Go ahead, old man! The world is yours!" - ' — ^— = ~' ' " ----- ..... - - -— * • rmrr-T — i— --- j Arms about each other's shoulders,... | |
 | Sinclair Lewis - 1922 - 414 pages
...and tame you down. Tell 'em to go to the devil! I'll back you. Take your factory job, if you want to. Don't '" be scared of the family. No, nor all of Zenith. Nor of your" self, the way I've been. Go ahead, old man! The world is yours!" Arms about each other's shoulders,... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1923 - 370 pages
...there (the rest of the family) will try to bully you, and tame you down. Tell 'em to go to the devil ! Don't be scared of the family. No, nor all of Zenith. Nor of yourself, the way I've been." Yes, that is Babbitt: the man who was scared of himself; Babbitt, as Walpole says, "own brother to... | |
 | Joseph Collins - 1923 - 330 pages
...summarises what life has taught him in a few words: "Don't be scared of the family. No, nor of all Zenith. Nor of yourself, the way I've been. Go ahead, old man 1 The world is yours!" Mr. Lewis' purpose was to describe the behaviour of a certain type of man in... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1928 - 246 pages
...and tame you down. Tell 'em to go to the devil! I'll back you. Take your factory job, if you want to. Don't be scared of the family. No, nor all of Zenith....I've been. Go ahead, old man. The world is yours!" has yet reached. In many ways it is the finest ' '*" !•••—«—————— ------- -t-... | |
 | Robert Neelly Bellah - 1985 - 384 pages
...happiness in love. The advice Babbit gives his son not to make the mistake he has made is typical: "Don't be scared of the family. No, nor all of Zenith. Nor of yourself, the way I've been." In the past hundred years, individualism and its ambiguities have been closely linked to middle-class... | |
 | Jackson Lears - 1995 - 416 pages
...his father approves, saying: "Don't be scared of the family. No, nor all of Zenith [his hometown]. Nor of yourself, the way I've been. Go ahead, old man! The world is yours!"(319). As "the Babbitt men marched into the living-room and faced the swooping family," they... | |
 | 298 pages
...you'll carry things further. I don't know . . . Don't be scared of the family. No, not of Zenith. Not of yourself, the way I've been. Go ahead, old man! The world is yours!' " BACCHANAUAN In Roman mythology, Bacchus, the equivalent of the Greek Dionysus, was the respected... | |
 | Patricia Boverie, Michael Kroth - 2008 - 250 pages
...and tame you down. Tell "em to go to the devil! I'll back you. Take your factory job, if you want to. Don't be scared of the family. No, nor all of Zenith....way I've been. Go ahead old man! The world is yours! [George Babbitt to his son] (Lewis 1996: 355) Are you making a "quarter of an inch out of a possible... | |
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