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...case of one Harvard applicant I met while on vacation in Montana, trying to impose the affirmative action model is absurd. I arrive at our meeting wearing a herringbone grey jacket from Brooks Brothers and accompanying dress slacks (Harvard taking its toll?) and he in a flannel jacket, a Wrangler button-clasp shirt and tight boot-cut jeans. The applicant comes from a ranch in the outlying area; his family raises Angus steers, and we talk for a little while about mad cow disease, about which he is extremely well-informed. Even with the mad cow scourge (which is really...
...writes. "Now it was full daylight on a weekday, and he had no tie on." You Look Nice Today is a comic novel with a tragic heart, and for a portrait of corporate life, you'd have to go back to Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit to find its equal. Rather than another searing indictment, Bing gives us a cockeyed love letter to the executive suite, and he reminds us that while we may hate that gray flannel suit, we can get very cold at night without it. --By Lev Grossman
...Ralph Lauren--next to a ridiculous little sportcoat cut from pink-green-and-blue madras plaid--that I spotted the Holy Grail: a perfect navy blue blazer in a smooth flannel wool. It was $240. I knew I would end up with the Gap's predictably adequate $48 version, but I lingered at Ralph Lauren, fingering the blazer's golden buttons, trying to rationalize such an indulgent purchase. It's a special occasion, I reminded myself. Nothing's too good for my boy. Besides, the jacket was cheap compared with the $525 vintage Levi's ("That's five bills...
DIED. SLOAN WILSON, 83, author of the best-selling 1955 novel The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit; of complications from Alzheimer's disease; in Colonial Beach, Va. His novel of suburban and corporate angst struck a postwar nerve and coined a cultural catchphrase...
...joked with friends that I’m going through a reverse mid-life crisis. I’ve been thinking about the meaning of life for 20 years, and now I want a flannel suit and a corporate...