References in Popular Culture
Notable alum Philip Rosenthal created, wrote and produced the television series Everybody Loves Raymond and included references to Hofstra in the show.
Bill Cosby had a bit in his comedy act titled "Hofstra," referencing the now-defunct Hofstra Football team.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“The lowest form of popular culturelack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most peoples liveshas overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“Whats wrong, a little pavement sickness?”
—Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“... weve allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyond fifty, sixty, or seventyall part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemicsmany people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)