1962
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Opposition to DDT was focused by the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. It cataloged environmental impacts that coincided with widespread use of DDT in agriculture in the United States, and it questioned the logic of broadcasting potentially dangerous chemicals into the environment with little prior investigation of their environmental and health effects. The book cited claims that DDT and other pesticides had been shown to cause cancer and that their agricultural use was a threat to wildlife, particularly birds. Although Carson never directly called for an outright ban on the use of DDT, its publication was a seminal event for the environmental movement and resulted in a large public outcry that eventually led, in 1972, to a ban on DDT's agricultural use in the United States."--Sholem Stein |
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1962 is 962nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1960s decade.
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Art and culture
- suicide of Marilyn Monroe
- On the occasion of Marilyn Monroe’s suicide on August 1962, Warhol used this publicity shot by Gene Korman for the film Niagara made in 1953.
- first issue of Midi-Minuit Fantastique
- The Grand Guignol theatre closes its doors
- Founding of the The Film-Makers' Cooperative
- In one of cinema's most famous moments, Ursula Andress - like a modern day Venus - emerged seductively from the sea and caused bikini sales to skyrocket.
Art
- Refrigerator Pies by Wayne Thiebaud
Music
- “Bossa Nova: (New Brazilian Jazz)” concert held at the Carnegie Hall on November 21
Singles
- Green Onions by Booker T. & the M.G.'s
- Watermelon Man by Herbie Hancock
- Afrikaan Beat by Toots Thielemans
- Bluesette by Bert Kaempfert
- Miss Jamaica by Jimmy Cliff
- Something's Got a Hold on Me by Etta James (for the intro)
- Misirlou by Dick Dale
- Our Day Will Come by Ruby & the Romantics
Albums
- Serge Gainsbourg N° 4 by Serge Gainsbourg
- Abstract, an album by Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott
Films
- Carnival of Souls
- The Intruder by Roger Corman
- Lolita by Stanley Kubrick
- Mondo Cane
- La Jetée
- Jules and Jim
- Confessions of an Opium Eater by Albert Zugsmith
- The Awful Dr. Orloff by Jesus Franco
Literature
Fiction
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Non-fiction
Books
- An Anecdoted Topography of Chance by Daniel Spoerri (with Roland Topor)
- Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown
- Einzelheiten by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- Eros and Evil by Robert Masters
Essays
- "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art" by Manny Farber
- "Metaphor of the Eye" by Roland Barthes
- "Notes on the Auteur Theory" by Andrew Sarris
- "Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds" by Alexander Trocchi
Births
Deaths
