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Much of the plot revisits territory from the stage hit Other People's Money, the movie Wall Street and a shelf of recent nonfiction, not to mention such Eisenhower-era cautionary tales as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Katz's prose is competent, his dialogue serviceable and his cast of characters large and mostly faceless (although its obsessives stand out: a shopworn survivor of the executive-suite wars; a by-hook-or-by-crook booker of talk-show interviewees; and a tough, moralistic accountant...
Outside, two men leave the pub, hoping to escape the rush of students. One of them, clad in a plaid flannel shirt with a bushy mustache and beard, stands near a red pick-up truck. He says he's leaving the Bow--it's getting too crowded...
...upon a time, direct mail evoked only two names: Montgomery Ward and Richard Sears. Ward, a Midwest traveling salesman, had a simple idea: "Sell directly to the consumer and save them the profit of the middleman." In 1872 he published a one-page listing of 163 items, from red flannel cloth to oilcloth table covers, and mail order as we know it today was born. Fourteen years later, Sears, a Minnesota railroad-station agent, decided to mail a few $12 watches to his peers for $14 apiece. When the ploy worked, Sears hooked up with a Chicago watchmaker named...
...Mommy Track in a 1989 article in the Harvard Business Review: "There isn't any forgiveness yet of a man who doesn't really give his all." So today's working stiff really enjoys no more meaningful options than did his father, the pathetic guy in the gray flannel suit who was pilloried as a professional hamster and an emotional cripple. You're still either a master of the universe or a wimp. It is the cognitive dissonance between the desire for change and the absence of ways to achieve it that has reduced most men who even think about...
...before I got into bed, I put on a pair of extra-thick long underwear. And some blue flannel pajamas. And a pair of thick wool socks. And a hat. And a scarf...