Influences On Popular Culture
In The Sopranos episode "College", Carmela Soprano and her priest, Father Phil Intintola, watch The Remains of the Day on Tony Soprano's stolen DVD player and skirt dangerously close to forsaking Phil's priestly and Carmela's marital vows, while Tony, Meadow, and AJ spend the night elsewhere. The next morning, Tony expresses suspicion after learning that Father Phil has spent the night, to which Carmela sarcastically responds, "Do I look like the friggin' thornbird over here?"
In the television show Reba there is an episode in which the character Barbra Jean has a crush on her reverend, whom she refers to as "Reverend Yummy-Pants". She sends him a copy of The Thorn Birds as a hint.
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“Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education, feel a politely disguised contempt for it; and thus the study of one of the most pervasive and powerful influences on human life is traduced and neglected.”
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“Just try to prove you’re not a camel!”
—Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
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