Events
- March 5 - Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première.
- November 18 - Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy.
- Following the death of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, there is a gap of several months before a successor is appointed.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“That’s the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“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.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)