Word: flannelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SLOAN WILSON, author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and executive of the White House Conference on Education, in HARPER'S Magazine...
...this sounds like the stuff of any one of a hundred novels at the local lending library. But Simenon does not see Steve just as a man in a grey flannel suit. Rather, he is the unwilling wearer of a hair shirt imposed on him by a world he never made and is too weak to remake. Soon enough Steve gets a little outside ordinary life. On an auto trip to Maine with Nancy to pick up their children at camp, he gets drunk and Nancy leaves him to go on by bus. When Steve picks up a hunted criminal...
...GRAY FLANNEL SUIT (304 pp.)-Sloan Wilson-Simon and Schuster...
...Rath, the man in the gray flannel suit, is a run-of-the-treadmill commuter who knows that his $7,000 post with the genteel Schanenhauser Foundation makes him, his wife and three children no more than glorified peons on their cash-conscious street in Westport, Conn. His wife Betsy is a brunette charmer with pronounced but somewhat whimsical notions of budgetary discipline ("No more homogenized milk . . . We're going to save two cents a quart and shake the bottle ourselves...
...young man with a slipped disk in the backbone of his ambition, Tom Rath has a certain appeal. Though he strains visibly. Author Wilson never lifts His administrative czar Hopkins off the literary blueprints. As a fable of the "tense and frantic" '50s, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit catches a little of the social transiency of Commuterland, where the richest nomads in the world fold their $15,000 and $25,000 tents and move on in the family Buick to more exclusive oases. Unfortunately, too much of the novel verges on upper-middle-class soap opera baited...