Congridae
Congridae (conger eels; subclass Actinopterygii, order Anguilliformes) A large family of marine fish which in profile resemble the common eels, but in which the
dorsal fin originates above the tip of the
pectoral fin. The skin bears no scales (that of common eels possesses minute scales). Congers live mainly in rocky coastal waters and are voracious predators. There are about 100 species, with a world-wide distribution.
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Irving Babbitt and cultural renewal.
Magazine article from: Humanitas; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; It is tempting to think of Irving Babbitt as a voice crying in the wilderness...however, it should be rejected. Babbitt himself was uninterested in the...laxities of American culture, Irving Babbitt was unwilling to concede that...
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The birth of a Chinese cultural movement: letters between Babbitt and Wu Mi.(Irving Babbitt, )
Magazine article from: Humanitas; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...his esteemed and beloved teacher Irving Babbitt. Later I was able to read, in...unreliable and short on fairness. Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) was a professor...became clearer. That same year Irving Babbitt was promoted to a professorship...
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Irving Babbitt on Lincoln and unionism.
Magazine article from: Humanitas; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...society in Democracy and Leadership, Irving Babbitt found little to admire and much...salute on Henry Ford" (308). Babbitt was willing to acknowledge that...literally, especially in the light of Babbitt's considered judgment that...
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Babbitt's impact in China: the case of Liang Shiqiu.(Irving Babbitt)
Magazine article from: Humanitas; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Shiqiu (1903-1987), one of Irving Babbitt's Chinese students at Harvard...himself. This article will discuss Babbitt's influence on Liang Shiqiu and...actively advocated the ideas of Babbitt's New Humanism through his writings...
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Irving Babbitt's influence in China: four perspectives.
Magazine article from: Humanitas; 3/22/2004; 561 words
; Since the 1920s Irving Babbitt has been a continuing influence in the moral and...prominent literary figure Liang Shiqiu, who had been Babbitt's student at Harvard. But all agree that Babbitt's influence has been substantial and salutary...
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The problem of Lincoln in Babbitt's thought.
Magazine article from: Humanitas; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...surprising at first glance to find Irving Babbitt among those "getting right with...Lincoln mystique. To be sure, Babbitt offered few direct comments about...Woodrow Wilson, for instance, Babbitt's near silence regarding the...
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Milton Babbitt's 'Three Theatrical Songs' in perspective.(A Symposium in Honor of Milton Babbitt)(composer)
Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...1945), and the Irving Berlin of Annie Get...which the youthful Babbitt did not hesitate to...occasionally when I hear Babbitt's songs - and here...with just a soupcon of Irving Berlin, a songwriter Babbitt greatly admires. But...
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An Emblematic American.(Review)
Magazine article from: Humanitas; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; The Critical Legacy of Irving Babbitt, by George A. Panichas. Wilmington...have seen only three portraits of Irving Babbitt. The first was the photograph...portrait was the one on the cover of Irving Babbitt in Our Time, edited by George...
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Realism, Romanticism, and Politics in Mark Twain.
Magazine article from: Humanitas; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Mark Twain and Irving Babbitt Imagination shapes society and politics. According to Irving Babbitt, the imagination plays an "all...perspective informed by the thought of Irving Babbitt. Twain and Babbitt have something...
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The heritage of Lincoln.(response to article by Richard M. Gamble in this issue, p. 69)
Magazine article from: Humanitas; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; In "The Problem of Lincoln in Babbitt's Thought," (1) his scholarly rejoinder to my "Irving Babbitt on Lincoln and Unionism," (2) Richard Gamble argues that Babbitt was wrong to uphold Lincoln "as an exemplary...
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Babbitt, Irving
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Babbitt, Irving (1865–1933), born in Ohio, graduated from Harvard (1889), and after study abroad became a professor of Romance...
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The 1930s: Education: Deaths
Book article from: American Decades
...many popular works on chemistry, 18 February 1930. Irving Babbitt, 67, influential critic and Harvard University professor...professor at Princeton University, founder with Irving Babbitt of the New Humanist movement, 9 March 1937. George...
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For Lancelot Andrewes
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...Baudelaire, Middleton, and Crashaw. In The Humanism of Irving Babbitt , Eliot questions the possibility of a long life or...as an alternative to religion. He demonstrates that Babbitt's faith in civilization must have as discipline a...
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Literary Movements
Book article from: American Decades
...with academic institutions. The principal figures were Irving Babbitt (Harvard), Paul Elmer More (Princeton), and Norman...influential books generated by the New Humanism were Babbitt's Rousseau and Romanticism (1919), More's Shelbourne...
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Paul Elmer More
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...classical literature and then was a newspaper editor until 1914, after which he wrote and lectured. Associated with Irving Babbitt in the movement called the New Humanism, More became an authority on Greek philosophy. His major works are the Shelburne...
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