Events
- E. E. Cummings and Rachel Carson are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships.
- Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with lupus.
- Anthony Powell produces the first novel of his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy.
- Arthur C. Clarke publishes "The Sentinel", the story that will form the basis for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- First appearance of Dennis the Menace comic strip in The Beano.
- Janie Moore, C. S. Lewis's adoptive mother, dies.
- James Clavell marries actress April Stride, who introduces him to the movie business.
- Joe Orton enters the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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“The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematising the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray’s Anatomy.”
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