Popular Culture
- A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift, was ironic fiction proposing the selling of children to save Ireland from starvation; the proposal was probably not intended to be literal
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“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.”
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