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 read about these cautionary figures, many of us were talking to corporate recruiters about entry-level emulation of them.”
