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Indeed, Viet Nam has given the young - protesters and participants alike - the opportunity to disprove the doom criers of the 1950s who warned that the next generation would turn out spineless and grey-flannel-souled. Henry David Thoreau would have felt at home with the young of the 60's, they are as appalled as he was at the thought of leading "lives of quiet desperation." In deed, for the future, the generation now in command can take solace from its offspring's determination to do better...
...Everyone looked at me like I was a bomb or something. It used to bother me. These people out here don't accept anything they don't know. Like, they come in here and say, 'Do you really wear those clothes?' I tell them, 'No, I wear a grey flannel suit and then I change when I get into the store.' These people don't know anything about me. But, like, they figure, 'If he's not the same as us, he must be a faggot.' What can I do? All I say is, 'Look, man, you don't even...
...Murphy is also on the board of the National Gallery of Art. With all this activity, there are bound to be some student murmurs about absenteeism in the front office, but the chancellor is such a familiar sight on campus that his customary outfit of blue blazer and grey flannel slacks is known as "the Murphy uniform." Murphy seldom misses a U.C.L.A. football game, often leaves his seat on the 50-yard line to pace nervously behind the bench when his team is in trouble...
...around so the TV audience could count the house themselves. At any rate, he was happy to be "free to pick and choose" a new job. And it wouldn't be with one of those clubs where "you wind up with more young Ivy League guys in grey flannel britches than you have any idea...
...about as relaxed as any normal, healthy, sibling-rivalry-riven American youngsters. "It's a good thing I came first, or I never would have got any attention," complains Nancy, a freckle-faced introvert who hides her dark hair under sun visors and prefers to wear mannish flannel shorts instead of frilly tennis skirts...