References in Popular Culture
Los Angeles sports columnist Jim Murray ended a column with a hypothetical quote from Eckert: "I wish everyone a happy and prosperous 1897!"
In a 1967 Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown's pitcher's mound gets washed away by a heavy rainstorm. Lucy then suggests, "Why don't you send a letter to Commissioner Eckert, and have him send you a new one?" Charlie Brown thinks little of this idea.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted by audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator’s lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.”
—Herbert J. Gans (b. 1927)