Popular Culture
- They are mentioned on the first page of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice.
- Characters in HBO's Generation Kill miniseries sing the song "Fixin' to Die".
- Country Joe and the Fish's 1967 performance at Tompkins Square Park in NYC's East Village is mentioned in the Don McNeill book, "Moving Though Here."
- They appear in issue 15 of Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD, Volume 1 (1969), apparently performing "Superbird" and "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" at a concert in Central Park.
- They appear in the 1971 movie Zachariah as an "inept gang of robbers".
- Country Joe is mentioned in the song "California Saga/California" on the 1973 album Holland by The Beach Boys
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Parents’ ability to survive a child’s unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times...even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.”
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“To be a Negro is to participate in a culture of poverty and fear that goes far deeper than any law for or against discrimination.... After the racist statutes are all struck down, after legal equality has been achieved in the schools and in the courts, there remains the profound institutionalized and abiding wrong that white America has worked on the Negro for so long.”
—Michael Harrington (1928–1989)