Popular Culture
- Pasadena is featured in the anime, Full Metal Panic!.
- Pasadena is the center of the 1990 novel Boomer
- Pasadena is featured in the Tom Clancy novel Executive Orders as one of several fast-attack submarines tasked to keep an eye on the hostilities growing between The People's Republic of China and The Republic of China (Taiwan); The ROC has been called Taiwan since the 1970s but is referred to as the ROC many times in the novel. Pasadena is also featured in Tom Clancy's novel Debt of Honor.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.”
—Kelvin MacKenzie (b. 1946)
“Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.”
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