Popular Culture
In the television series West Wing ("Hartsfield's Landing" episode) President Josiah Bartlet challenges his communications director Toby Ziegler to a game of chess. In an attempt to show off his knowledge of the game, Bartlet exclaims that Ziegler has opened with the Evans Gambit after moving only his first pawn. Ziegler, who has obviously no knowledge of the opening says, "I moved my pawn." In spite of this, the opening was still used.
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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)
“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator—the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)