In Popular Culture
The shell shed by the nymph, along with those of other cicada species, is often collected by children and can be attached to their clothing. Schoolchildren have also been known to bring live adults into classrooms to startle the class with their "strident shrieking", to the displeasure of the teachers. Live cicadas are often collected by climbing trees, and can be kept temporarily as pets in shoeboxes. They cannot easily be kept for longer than a day or two, because they need access to flowing sap for food. A poem dedicated to the Floury Baker appeared in The Catholic Press in 1930, describing its life cycle to children.
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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)
“For those that love the world serve it in action,
Grow rich, popular and full of influence,
And should they paint or write, still it is action:
The struggle of the fly in marmalade.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)