The Man in the Grey Flannel Doublet

[Dave Monroe]

Possible to invoke that Weberian routinization of
charisma as well here?  Let me know ...

> "...and in marches one Genarro, a complete
> nonentity, to proclaim himself interim head of
> state till the rightful Duke, Niccolo, can be
> located." (p. 69)
>
> "Gennaro's costume was grey flannel." (p. 77)
>
> Very organization man, very industrial half of the
> military-industrial complex, no?  See, of course,
> Sloan Wilson's novel, The Man in the Grey Flannel
> Suit (1955), the film adaptation thereof (dir.
> Nunally Johnson, 1956), and William Whyte's seminal
> The Organization Man (1956) ...

http://eclipse.barnard.columbia.edu/~rg322/Men-Conformity.htm

> As well as ...
>
> Melley, Timothy.  Empire of Conspiracy:
>    The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America
>    Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2000
>
> Ch. 1, "Bureaucracy and Its Discontents," pp. 47-79
> ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=586&sort=date

This DOESN'T seem to be the locus classicus for this
particular notion of Weber's, but ...

Weber, Max.  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit
   of Capitalism.  Trans. Talcott Parsons.
   New York: Scribners, 1930 [1905].

But here it is online, at least.  Frames ...

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/weber/world/ethic/pro_eth_frame.html

Or no ...

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/WEBER/cover.html

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/weber/world/ethic/pro_eth_content.html

But that is an interesting detail, methinks ...




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