Word: lithographic
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Where Babbitt Senior would have used a lithograph of Whistler's Mother to cover up that hole in the wallpaper, Babbitt Junior would, of course, use a Picasso." Where the older Babbitt hashed over baseball and real-estate prices at his Booster Club luncheons, the new Babbitt talks knowingly (" 'knowing' is the word") about The New Yorker, sex and existentialism in an "adequate little French restaurant in the East Fifties." Where the old Babbitt merely hated art, the new Babbitt "hugs it to death...
...Look. In Depew, N.Y., U.S. Secret Service agents who seized a printing press and rounded up two men reported several new wrinkles in the counterfeiting trade: besides finding a lithograph plate designed for printing phony tickets to South Pacific, they learned that the counterfeiting ring had been offering West Coast outlets their choice of either new or old twenty-dollar bills-i.e., with or without the White House balcony...