Word: flannels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...book, A Sense of Values: The latest, 604-page redundancy by Sloan (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) Wilson may serve a purpose: to stimulate total disenchantment with the disenchanted novel. See BOOKS, The Disenchanted Forest...
...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...
...TIME'S cover-ink supply at low ebb? Or was it the intention of Artist Artzybasheff to depict a mass of colorful individuals who, upon entering through college portals, are alchemized into a great grey glob of flannel-suited, conforming nonentities...