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:
“bees
dig the plum blossoms”
—Charles Olson (1910–1970)
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—Lydia M. Child (1802–1880)
“To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind’s wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.”
—Judith Malina (b. 1926)