Popular Culture
In the novel The House of God, author Samuel Shem referred to them as "Cooper's Droopers", referring to a lack of tension. In Robert L. Forward's novel Dragon's Egg, it refers to "Reverse Cooper's Droop", caused by violent sudden deceleration during spaceflight.
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“Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.”
—Gerald W. Johnson (1890–1980)
“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)