Word: flannell
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Taken aback at first, the flannel-mouthed females who have trademarked the New Orleans school rebellion turned up at school to scream at the youngsters. White housewives picketed the Walgreen's drugstore where John Thompson worked as a $73-a-week clerk, and he lost his job. (Later, Walgreen officials insisted that Thompson had asked for a transfer.) The landlady ordered the Thompson family to get out of their $70-a-month apartment. Without telling anyone where they were going, John Thompson and his family took a load of wet wash off the line, packed the rest of their...
...patterned like a piece of processed cheese," three people deserve instant commiseration. The first is the author, who is obviously about to grate a very stale piece of thematic cheese. The second is the reader, who is only too familiar with the fictional conformists in flim-flannel suiting. The third is the hero himself, for whom the author has such clear contempt that all he can look forward to is two or three hundred pages of abusive redemption...
Bowles still wears Madison Avenue's grey flannel suits and button-down-collar shirts, has rarely been seen in formal clothes. For recreation he is a real canvas sailor, reluctantly gave up his 50-ft. yawl for a small sailboat when his children grew up. Twice married (he and his first wife were divorced in 1933), he has five children; Son Samuel passed up a Rhodes scholarship to teach school in Nigeria; Daughter Cynthia did a stint as a nurse for the World Health Organization in India...
Once again there are wolves in Cambridge, and lights the color of red-flannel birds whisk up the avenues past guitar-shaped Santas. One Christmas is so much like another these years, when cynics tell you "Yes, Virginia, there is a Harry Byrd," that the holidays become a habit, and an easily broken one at that...
...cliché kit. The recurrence of the theme may prove, as some claim, a deep uneasiness in American materialist society; or it may merely prove the uneasiness (or an eye on an easy market) among American writers. The latest, 604-page redundancy by Sloan (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) Wilson may also serve a purpose: to stimulate total disenchantment with the disenchantment novel...