1961
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"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex." --Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisenhower's farewell address, January 17, 1961 "There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind." --Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller (p. 56, ch. 5) |
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1961 is the 961st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1960s decade.
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Art and culture
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Music
- El Watusi by Ray Barretto
- Moon River by Danny Williams
- Comin' Home Baby! by the Dave Bailey Quartet
- Zou Bisou Bisou by Gillian Hills
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Visual art
- Artist's Shit by Italian artist Piero Manzoni
- L'Homme qui marche I by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti
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Film
- Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais
- Victim by Basil Dearden
- The Innocents by Jack Clayton
- Accattone by Pasolini
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Literature
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Fiction
- Catch-22 by Joseph L. Heller
- A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
- Solaris by Stanisław Lem
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Non-fiction
- L'art fantastique, an anthology of fantastic art by Marcel Brion
- The Tears of Eros by Georges Bataille
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
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Poetry
- Hundred Thousand Billion Poems by Raymond Queneau
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Births
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Deaths
- Maya Deren (1917 - 1961)
- Louis-Ferdinand D. Céline (1894 - 1961)
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)
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