Sentences with phrase «gray flannel suit»

Beginning in 1979, with the Radical Faeries, and then also with Robert Bly, whom (like Jeff Koons) some of us may or may not like, there's an attitude very much like the»50s critique of the man in the gray flannel suit or the white collar worker, of American commercial capitalism as emasculating, right?

If Beat is retrospectively hard to define, it has one agreed - upon characteristic: Beat was non-conformist during the most conformist period in American history, the era of the Organization Man in his gray flannel suit.

At artnet, Donald Kuspit suggests that Johns is a good avant - garde conformist, and that his gray is evocative of the «man in the gray flannel suit.»

Unfortunately the terms «administrator» and «executive» have a metallic, manipulative ring, suggesting for most people the image of the organization man in a gray flannel suit.

But I am not prepared to write any Jew off, whether he wears a gray flannel suit or a cassock.

He had little use for the notions of Israel Zangwill, who had popularized the phrase «melting pot» in the title of a 1908 play, or of Henry Ford's image of a foreigner jumping into the pot and coming out in a gray flannel suit waving an American flag.

To make sense of the current wave of corporate scandal, you need to understand how the man in the gray flannel suit has been replaced by the imperial C.E.O..

In his new book, «Searching for a Corporate Savior,» Rakesh Khurana of Harvard Business School suggests that during the 1980's and 1990's, «managerial capitalism» - the world of the man in the gray flannel suit - was replaced by «investor capitalism.»

For his MBA Show episodes, he dresses in a gray flannel suit, a 30 - year - old hand - me down from his father.

By the late 1950s, the candidate in the gray flannel suit was performing in - basket assessments in which he'd be graded on how he handled a set of letters, papers, tasks, and telephone calls that mimicked what he'd get on the job.

Thomas Mellon Evans was a one of the first modern corporate raiders, taking Graham's net current asset analysis and using it to wreak havoc on the gray flannel suits of the 40s and 50s.

Not exact matches

Doctor - to - be Bannister, sprinter and devout Christian Morrow, and scholar - quarterback Baker are felicitous representatives of the gray - flannel - suit 1950s and pre-Dealey Plaza»60s.