Popular Culture
- The 1955 film, The Dam Busters chronicled the British attack on the dam.
- In the game Call of Duty, the player, an SAS commando, is tasked with destroying the dam, as the Germans have rebuilt it. He must also sabotage AA guns and disable its electric generators. The dam returns in Call of Duty 3 as a multiplayer map.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock and roll or Christianity.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)
“The first time many women hold their tiny babies, they are apt to feel as clumsy and incompetent as any man. The difference is that our culture tells them they’re not supposed to feel that way. Our culture assumes that they will quickly learn how to be a mother, and that assumption rubs off on most women—so they learn.”
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