Culture
- Rook (band), alternative rock band (Lyman Smith, Mark Tillman, Eric Koller)
- Rook (album), 2008 album by Shearwater
- The Dirty Rooks, American rock band
- The Rook, the title character in a 1940s series of stories by Barry Reese
- Rook Bartley of the anime series Genesis Climber Mospeada and Robotech
- Rook (Transformers), a fictional Transformers character
- Rook (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Rook (comics), comic book character from Eerie magazine
- Rooks (band), American extreme metal band from Northbrook, Illinois
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Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)
“Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing—he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)
“We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle- class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)