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Article: The culture of culture. (widespread use of the word 'culture')
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- June 6, 1994
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BOOKS IN PRINT offers a good introduction to a word that not long ago went into business like an '80s corporate raider. The latest edition contains two full tiny-type columns of works entitled The Culture of Biomedicine, The Culture of Capitalism, The Culture of Childhood; of Complaint, of Disbelief, of Narcissism--all the way through Nature to Protest to Science to the University, and finally ending with The Culture of War.
Culture seems to be everywhere these days. A New York Times story about a company that makes preppy clothes for a predominantly black clientele paraphrases the owner, Charles Walker Jr., to the effect that Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger ...