Popular Culture References
Season 1 episode 15 of "The Carol Burnett Show" featured a comedy skit that parodied "Born Free." It aired Jan. 1, 1968 and starred Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, and Tim Conway.
Season 5 episode 6, "Far Away Places" of the AMC period drama Mad Men has the character of Peggy Olson skip work to catch a matinee of Born Free.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“And all the popular statesmen say
That purity built up the State
And after kept it from decay;
Admonish us to cling to that
And let all base ambition be,
For intellect would make us proud....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to the grand interests, superficial success is of no account.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)