Word: flannels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blue Suitcase. In 1953, at a party in Manchester, Vt., Salinger met Claire Douglas, an English-born Radcliffe student. She was unimpeachably rightlooking, extraordinarily pretty, not too categorically cashmere sweater and flannel skirt. Claire was fascinated by the intense, 34-year-old author, and visited him several times in Cornish. She soothed her family with a story that showed close attention to the master's style: Salinger lived, she said, with his mother, sister, 15 Buddhist monks, and a yogi who stood on his head. The girl discovered mysticism. "She was hung on the Jesus Prayer." recalls her brother Gavin...
...wife padded about their 20-year vacation retreat: an antique pub in rural Devonshire. Paying $29.40 a week room and board, the Primate of All England now and again abandoned his customary gaiters to tromp the neighboring moors, in a vacation ensemble of cloth cap, tweed sports jacket and flannel bags. As for the inner man. the Archbishop appeared to find the pub's cuisine quite as appealing as that of Lambeth Palace. "It's good plain stuff," he purred, "and I like a drop of cider with it. The cider rounds off the meal...
...Khrushchev's favor came in early 1958, when Polyansky replaced him as premier of the Russian Soviet Republic, which includes both Moscow and Leningrad and is the biggest and richest of all Soviet republics. Thereafter, it became slowly apparent that Khrushchev was transferring his affections from the flannel-mouthed Kozlov to the nimble young newcomer. In last winter's Party Plenum debate on the agricultural crisis, Polyansky's role was second only to Khrushchev's. When Khrushchev followed up the debate with a two-month, cross-country talkathon to exhort Russia's peasants to greater...
Freudian man, Marxian man, organization man, lifeman, gamesman and grey-flannel-suit man-what were they compared to the S-Man? Piglets to a python. In the diabolically clever guise of a self-help manual, The S-Man aims a good Swiftian kick at the cult and cultists of success. A British export, the book lacks the clubby good humor of Parkinson and Potter, substitutes instead the wittily barbed aphorisms of the success man's ascent ("New friends are best friends"). Cocktail party Platos will find a host of new S-Man concepts, including the Inhibition Barrier...
...lives on Lexington Avenue, not Madison, and it runs to blue serge conservatism more than grey flannel. It takes no hard-liquor accounts, turns up its nose at some top-selling products (patent medicines), refuses even to put on speculative account presentations for prospective clients...