Sentences with phrase «flannel suits of»

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

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

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.

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.

Gone are his suits and his ties and his shiny shoes, and in their place are flannels and jeans and boots that might just have a touch of mud on them.

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.»

To make sense of the current wave of corporate scandal, you need to understand how the man in the gray flannel suit has been replaced by the imperial C.E.O..

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.

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

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.

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.

The stylish brown pants and a cute flannel shirt feel perfectly suited for weekend activities of all kinds.

When you pick up the right flannel color it is important to take note of your skin tone and colors that suit you the best, for instance:

Flannels can be worn in a lot of ways, so you just need to choose the variant that suits you the best.

A grey skirt suit, for example, with a mint green blouse and silver jewelry, or a pair of high waisted blue jeans (extra bonus points if they're flannel lined!)

And then throw an old flannel on top of the body suit... all 90's grunge and stuff!

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The costuming is also on point, Lee is all business in angled short hair and crisp suits while the staff is dressed in relaxed and loose clothing with a lot of flannel that makes them all look more like camp counselors than scientists.

What if the Avengers rocked plaid flannel instead of skin - tight superhero suits?

Hemsworth sweats through workouts, dresses down in worn flannel shirts and jeans for bar scenes, spiffs up in designer suits to fool Goddard and, best of all, gets tangled up in the sheets with a high - tech honey named Emma (Amber Heard).

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.

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.

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.

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?

Forget the power suit, Jonathan feels most competent in one of his many flannel shirts.