Conventions
- New York Comicon, New York City
- Robert Brusch organizes a Detroit-based convention for fans of the comic book medium, a precursor to the Detroit Triple Fan Fair.
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Famous quotes containing the word conventions:
“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
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—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)