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GETTING OVER IT.(Critical Essay)
When Tom Rath, the hero of Sloan Wilson's 1955 novel "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," comes home to Connecticut each day from his job in Manhattan, his wife mixes him a Martini. If he misses the train, he'll duck into the bar at Grand Central Terminal and have a highball, or perhaps a Scotch. On Sunday mornings, Rath and his wife lie around drinking Martinis. Once, Rath takes a tumbler of Martinis to bed, and after finishing it drifts off to sleep. Then his wife wakes him up in the middle of the night, wanting to talk. "I will if you get me a drink," he says. She comes back with a glass half full of ice and gin. "On Greentree Avenue cocktail parties started at ...
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.(Video recording review)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Sharrett, Christopher March 22, 2006 700+ words
...s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a notch or two below...The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, which during its release...Such is the fate of Tom Rath (Peck), who commutes...makes The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit differ markedly from...
- Castronovo, David. Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s That Made...
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel Schrynemakers, Ilse September 22, 2007 700+ words
...CASTRONOVO, DAVID. Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s That Made American...two hundred pages, Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit undertakes, as vowed in the introduction...not. Each chapter in Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit skillfully recreates what was not common...
- GRAY FLANNEL SUIT OF '50S GIVES WAY TO SPIRIT OF THE '80S STUDENT ENTREPRENEURS...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) March 1, 1987 700+ words
...students follows a national trend toward involvement in small business, analysts say. During the 1950s, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - the quintessential coroporate clone - was the ideal of a generation. But during the 1960s, a rejection of traditional...
- Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the Fifties that Made American...
- Magazine article from: The Antioch Review Martin, Jay March 22, 2005 700+ words
Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the Fifties that Made American Culture by David Castronovo. Continuum, 207 pp., $22.95. That the 1950s was...
- Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s That Made American...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Newman, Judie October 1, 2006 700+ words
Beyond the Grey Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s that Made American Culture. By DAVID CASTRONOVO. New York: Continuum. 2004. 208 pp. $22.95. ISBN...
- Trusting the teacher in the grey-flannel suit - Peter Drucker.(Interview)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 19, 2005 700+ words
...the market, but too clear-sighted to embrace the growing fashion for big-government solutions. The man in the grey-flannel suit held out more hope for mankind than either the hidden hand or the gentleman in Whitehall. He finally found a home in American...
- Movie Review: THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT
- Newspaper article from: Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate January 1, 1994 700+ words
Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 01-01-1994 Movie Review: THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT Starring: Gregory Peck, Fredric March Released: 1956 Star Rating (of 4): *** Director: Nunnally Johnson, Rated ? First...
- The Iconoclast In the Gray Flannel Suit
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Seymour Krim October 23, 1988 700+ words
LITERARY OUTLAW The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs By Ted Morgan Henry Holt. 659 pp. $27.50 THIS HUGE VAT of a book, into which everything seems to have been poured without any measuring cups, is really a prolonged celebration for the survival of a man who should have parachuted out long
