Word: flannelings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Truman Capote seriously feuding when he remarked of Jack Kerouac's work: "That's not writing, that's typing." Novelist Nelson Algren was unable to goad either Sloan Wilson or Herman Wouk into a full-dress feud when he wrote: "If The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit married Marjorie Morningstar on my front porch at high noon, I wouldn't bother to go to the wedding...
What passions flicker beneath Georgie's grey flannel mortarboard? As the reader meets him, he is preparing to go horseback riding. A shrewd old groom suggests a placid bay, but Georgie rejects his advice and takes a balky black gelding. Of course he is thrown. No student of women's-magazine prose can fail to understand the symbolic significance of this, and it has nothing to do with horseback riding. The groom (servants are as clever as presidential speechwriters in this sort of fiction) is Fate, and Georgie's pettish assertion of masculinity means that...
...grey-flannel dismay of advertisers everywhere, thousands of teenagers, are lining up across country to buy a product with almost no value of any kind except for laughs. Its name: Greasy Kid Stuff...
...draw on the familiarity of a world geography course. Personal relations are often studied through "role-playing" typical situations, and Maryland eighth-graders use modern language to act out Biblical stories such as the Prodigal Son ("Look, Dad, I'm leaving home"). Teachers regularly use film strips, cartoons, flannel boards, charades-even magic tricks. The Methodists are featuring Patty Duke in a new film series that will be shown in Sunday schools...
...things for women. In its new Boutique, Sak's is showing "a world of witty fashions" selected in New York. There are tailored wool skirts in solids and tweeds, mohair and bulky knit sweaters and proportioned wool slacks. Sensible, stylish and comfortable all at once is Sak's grey flannel wraparound skirt sporting brown suede pockets. If your size is not on hand, Sak's will gladly order it for you from New York immediately...