Word: flannels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apple juice is good for you," proclaims a billboard in Budapest. "Capture time, take photographs," urges a TV commercial in Prague. "Fly by airplane," reads a Soviet poster. Rudimentary as they are by Western standards, such ads are sign and symbol that the men in the grey flannel öltöny have found a place in increasingly consumer-minded Eastern Europe...
...paints. San Francisco Bureau Chief Judson Gooding was gauche enough to wear a suit and tie to a celebration in Golden Gate Park, and was suspected of being a "narco" (narcotics agent). Malcolm Carter, TIME'S Stanford University stringer, did much better with a second-hand kelly-green flannel shirt and a string of Philippine seed beads. Washington Correspondent Philip Mandelkorn managed to get by in ordinary sports clothes, but he found reporting difficult. Entering a hippie guru's pad "was like jumping into a cool pool on a hot summer day. I just didn't feel...
Dazzled by the agency's bright, blonde President Mary Wells, 39, newspaper ad columnists reported her every move; the trade papers began running endless features on "The Gray Flannel Gal" and "The Wondrous World of W.R.G." Soon Sunday supplements, weeklies, even the prestige business magazines were weighing in with more talk about "the most talked-about agency." Last August Syndicated Fashion Columnist Eugenia Sheppard went so far as to coo that Mary Wells's "soft, thrilling voice makes the maddest ideas seem perfectly possible"-extravagant praise, since at the time W.R.G. had just begun to produce its first...
Indeed, Viet Nam has given the young - protesters and participants alike - the opportunity to disprove the doom criers of the 1950s who warned that the next generation would turn out spineless and grey-flannel-souled. Henry David Thoreau would have felt at home with the young of the 60's, they are as appalled as he was at the thought of leading "lives of quiet desperation." In deed, for the future, the generation now in command can take solace from its offspring's determination to do better...
...Everyone looked at me like I was a bomb or something. It used to bother me. These people out here don't accept anything they don't know. Like, they come in here and say, 'Do you really wear those clothes?' I tell them, 'No, I wear a grey flannel suit and then I change when I get into the store.' These people don't know anything about me. But, like, they figure, 'If he's not the same as us, he must be a faggot.' What can I do? All I say is, 'Look, man, you don't even...