Plum in Human Culture
Business
- In business, the color plum represents a business deal that is profitable—a plum contract. A plum job is a job that one is assigned to that has a high salary or the job may be a sinecure with good pay but not much work to do.
Credit Cards
- American Express has a credit card called a Plum credit card that has a higher credit limit and a lower interest rate than a regular credit card; it is only available to someone with a good credit rating.
Music
- The Electric Prunes is a psychedelic rock band formed in Seattle in 1966 that was popular among the hippies during the Summer of Love in 1967. They disbanded in 1970 and reformed in 1999.
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Famous quotes containing the words plum, human and/or culture:
“The plum my mother picked matured slowly,
The boy she dropped from darkness at her side
Into the sided lap of light grew strong....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.”
—Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)
“Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)