American culture

American culture

Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.

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Bill Cosby

Culture; American culture

(born 1937) Born in Philadelphia, PA, Cosby was the first African American actor to star in a dramatic series on television (I Spy, NBC, 1965–8). Wellknown for his comedy routines and stage act, ...

Thomas Pynchon

Culture; American culture

(born 1937) Certainly one of the most important of America’s postwar novelists. In works such as V (1963), Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) and Mason and Dixon (1997), Pynchon combined pyrotechnic verbal ...

Philip Glass

Culture; American culture

(born 1937) Composer. Grandson of Russian Jewish immigrants, trained in New York City, NY (Julliard) and Paris while also influenced by South Asian and Arab music. Glass combines a certain minimalism ...

Ivan Boesky

Culture; American culture

(born 1937) Ivan Boesky’s arrest signaled the end of the high-flying merger and buyout industry of the 1980s. As an arbitrageur, he sought to profit by speculating in the stock of takeover targets. ...

Jack Nicholson

Culture; American culture

(born 1937) Part bohemian beatnik and part establishment, three-time Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975; Terms of Endearment, 1983; As Good as it Gets, 1997) ...

Dustin Hoffman

Culture; American culture

(born 1937) Stage and film actor, Hoffman played in offBroadway theaters in the 1960s. In 1967 Mike Nichols noticed his talent. With Hoffman’s small stature, Nichols had him play a naive twenty year ...

Richard Farina

Culture; American culture

(1937 – 1966) Poet, composer, folk-singer and novelist of IrishCuban heritage. His Been Down so Long it Looks Like Up to Me (1966) has been recognized as a classic of post-beat generational unease. ...