Suddenly, alienation was a word that was falling lightly from his own lips and those of his friends, noted the writer Richard Schickel in an essay on the importance of Marlon Brando as a cultural figure: “The Lonely Crowd was anatomized in 1950, and the fear of drifting into its clutches was lively in us. White Collar was on our brick and board bookshelves, and we saw how the eponymous object seemed to be choking the life out of earlier generations. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit stalked our nightmares and soon enough The Organization Man would join him there, though of course, even as we
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