Sentences with phrase «flannel suit»

The gray flannel suit, they point out, was a phenomenon in only a few urban areas and in only a few occupations.

Perfect for teaming with a pair of casual jeans and a simple tee for a day out or you can dress them up for he office with a dark grey flannel suit.

• The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit Tim Conway: The World's Greatest Athlete • The Apple Dumpling Gang • The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again Suzanne Pleshette: The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin • The Lion King II: Simba's Pride • Spirited Away Dick Van Patten: The Strongest Man in the World • Freaky Friday Richard Bakalyan: Follow Me, Boys!

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Those who climbed the ladder in the age of the grey flannel suit need to realize that employees now signal «professionalism» in many different ways

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.

But by the time the bad gray - flannel suit novels started and everybody began to talk about conformity, the courage to accept the unchangeable was much more highly prized than the will to change, mainly because in the fifties nobody (besides Rosa Parks and a few others) thought there was much that could be changed.

Before the gray flannel suit became a monk's robe, however, the superficiality of this kind of civility was made obvious, and generations of unbelievers, not just nonbelievers, began to appear.

The Eton Grey brushed flannel suiting fabric is beautifully soft, yet hard - wearing and will give you a chic - understated style as well as all the confidence you need as a new mum.

And so in UNFINISHED BUSINESS, THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT discovers that business as usual in the 21st century is less about facing the difficulties of conformity than it is about taking a cue from the local anarchists.

In 1955, the same year The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit came out (and became a bestseller and eventually a movie starring Gregory Peck), Larsen once again recruited Wilson, this time to be part of the planning committee for that year's White House Conference on Education.

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.

One said, «he can do an oil painting wearing a white flannel suit and get not a drip on himself.»

The analyst «became our priest, garbed in his vestments of three - piece dark flannel suit, and his orthodoxy became our religion.

The Crack in the Picture Window, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The Split - Level Culture?

Bedford grey flannel suit, flannel striped dresses, the polo wool sharkskin, pinstripe, three piece tick weave, plaid suit Our iconic European - made Glen plaid wool suit shows the best tailoring and sleek style.

, I suggest The Hucksters (1947) starring Clark Gable and Deborah Kerr (another Warner Archive title) and The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1956) starring Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, and my boy Fredric March.

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.

I own a pair of rubber - soled Grenson pebble leather boots, which look terrific with a heavy wool, tweed or flannel suit, and which, like the British craftsmen who made them, can stand up to all sorts of weather.

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

Certainly, the suit's fabrics are impeccable: one flannel - wool blend comes from England's Fox Bros. & Co., the 240 - year - old Savile Row supplier that essentially invented the flannel suit.

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.»

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

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.

The grey flannel suit has become a wardrobe staple, particularly in the breezier months.

In these pictures I'm keeping it pretty dressed up, matching it with a grey flannel suit and wool tie to cut the chill on the way to work, or with a black top coat when the mercury dips even lower.

He was in several ensemble films, like Executive Suite (also written about here) and It's a Big Country, and graciously played support to the newer talents such as Gregory Peck in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) and William Holden in The Bridges at Toko - Ri (1954).

At times it feels like we've plunked down in a family drama set in the 1950s, either «Revolutionary Road» or, reaching further back, «The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit» with Gregory Peck caught in a different kind of job - vs.

(1966) • The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968) Richard Bakalyan: Return From Witch Mountain (1978) John Fiedler: The Shaggy D.A. (1976) • Midnight Madness (1980)

When Sloan Wilson set out to write his second book, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, he likely took the advice often given to novelists: Write what you know.

Roy Larsen, a longtime visiting committee member and building namesake at HGSE, was immortalized in the book and film, «The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.»

You'll see herringbone tweed, flannel suits, rockabilly leathers, poodle skirts, pencil dresses, and military uniforms.

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.»

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.

If you're groping for a courtroom metaphor, it's like the difference between a charcoal grey flannel suit and a pale, breathable seersucker.