| I had always rejected the suburban ideal of the carefully clipped and methodically poisoned greensward, with its connotations of Babbittry and mundane middle-class aesthetics. |
| Franklin's concentration on civic well-being and societies for mutual benefit have earned him a reputation for boosterism and Babbittry. |
| These stories are all satirical, making fun of Babbittry, small-town hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness, but the humor is mostly as fond as it is pointed, and the characters are never caricatures. |
| The local Congressman is an embodiment of this narcissistic style, and of the sort of Babbittry that accompanies it. |
