Influences On Popular Culture
In The Sopranos episode "College", Carmela Soprano and her priest, Father Phil Intintola, watch The Remains of the Day on Tony Soprano's stolen DVD player and skirt dangerously close to forsaking Phil's priestly and Carmela's marital vows, while Tony, Meadow, and AJ spend the night elsewhere. The next morning, Tony expresses suspicion after learning that Father Phil has spent the night, to which Carmela sarcastically responds, "Do I look like the friggin' thornbird over here?"
In the television show Reba there is an episode in which the character Barbra Jean has a crush on her reverend, whom she refers to as "Reverend Yummy-Pants". She sends him a copy of The Thorn Birds as a hint.
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“Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education, feel a politely disguised contempt for it; and thus the study of one of the most pervasive and powerful influences on human life is traduced and neglected.”
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“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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“I am writing to resist the view that Europe and civilization are going to Hell. If I am being “crucified for an idea”Mthat is, the coherent idea around which my muddles accumulated—it is probably the idea that European culture ought to survive, that the best qualities of it ought to survive along with whatever cultures, in whatever universality. Against the propaganda of terror and the propaganda of luxury, have you a nice simple answer?”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)