Popular Culture
- Pasadena is featured in the anime, Full Metal Panic!.
- Pasadena is the center of the 1990 novel Boomer
- Pasadena is featured in the Tom Clancy novel Executive Orders as one of several fast-attack submarines tasked to keep an eye on the hostilities growing between The People's Republic of China and The Republic of China (Taiwan); The ROC has been called Taiwan since the 1970s but is referred to as the ROC many times in the novel. Pasadena is also featured in Tom Clancy's novel Debt of Honor.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“Education must, then, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)