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...appeared last week at Avalon, is among the best. With simple, irrestible rhythms and vocals pleading raspily for lost love, the band's universal sound drew together traditional city rivals into the mosh pit--frat boys bent on dancing to anything with a hard beat, and the flannel-and-nose-ring crowd, fiercely attentive to every inflection in singer Bill Janovitz's songs...
...most famous book, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, topped bestseller charts in 1955. On its way to becoming a cult classic, the book transformed the gray flannel suit into a symbol of conformity for an entire generation...
Wilson has authored 14 books. He considers his best work to be Ice Brothers, a novel about U.S. ship patrols off the coast of Greenland during World War II. But it is Gray Flannel that put him on the literary map and landed his name in Bartlett's Book of Quotations...
After Wilson left Time-Life for the University of Buffalo in 1951, he spent two years writing Gray Flannel and trying to understand what made Larsen tick...
...number...The Indian gurus...The $100 limit on campaign contributions...The turtleneck-and-flannel chic...Zen Buddhism...The visit to Mother Teresa's mission...California...