Word: flannels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Murphy is also on the board of the National Gallery of Art. With all this activity, there are bound to be some student murmurs about absenteeism in the front office, but the chancellor is such a familiar sight on campus that his customary outfit of blue blazer and grey flannel slacks is known as "the Murphy uniform." Murphy seldom misses a U.C.L.A. football game, often leaves his seat on the 50-yard line to pace nervously behind the bench when his team is in trouble...
...around so the TV audience could count the house themselves. At any rate, he was happy to be "free to pick and choose" a new job. And it wouldn't be with one of those clubs where "you wind up with more young Ivy League guys in grey flannel britches than you have any idea...
...about as relaxed as any normal, healthy, sibling-rivalry-riven American youngsters. "It's a good thing I came first, or I never would have got any attention," complains Nancy, a freckle-faced introvert who hides her dark hair under sun visors and prefers to wear mannish flannel shorts instead of frilly tennis skirts...
Riding a milk-white steed, dazzlingly attired in a white flannel suit and golden necklace with ruby pendant, bewhiskered, 240-lb. Benjamin Purnell cut a commanding figure around the Michigan fruit-marketing community of Benton Harbor. A grade-school dropout who was the master of mostly untaught arts, he was the self-proclaimed Seventh Messenger of Christ. Though one coruscant message was celibacy, Purnell was accused more than once of seducing teen-age girls in so-called purification rites. Another tablet from Purnell's private Sinai was the promise of earthly immortality, a cup that Ben himself let pass...
...heroine Pepper derives from Pippi Longstocking, the children's book tomboy who played hooky and didn't wash behind his ears. Neither Pepper nor her big brother Markie can find someone to love them, to make them believe it's worth growing up. Pepper faces down a grey-flannel husband and petty-bourgeois mother-in-law, befriends a looney, and runs off to Europe to find her brother, who carries the world's angst on his shoulders...