Events
- The book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is widely read.
- Of Mice and Men, the novel by John Steinbeck, is removed from Tennessee public schools when the School Board Chair promises to remove all "filthy books" from public school curricula and libraries.
- Ted Hughes is made the British Poet Laureate.
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“If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, has some indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.”
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