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Modern Literature Time ChartA chart showing the publication dates of works of literature in the context of important historical, social, and cultural events |
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1950 |
A selection of publicationsW H Auden: Collected Shorter Poems |
Historic and political eventsUSA: Senator Joseph McCarthy launches crusade against alleged Communist infiltration of Federal government. |
Social historyUK: End of petrol rationing brings motoring boom. Science: First kidney transplant. USA plans to build hydrogen bomb. Technology: BBC's first broadcast from overseas. Popular music: Frank Sinatra's London debut. Cinema: Marilyn Monroe in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve. Jean Cocteau, Orphee. Akira Kurosawa, Rashomon. |
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1951 |
Samuel Beckett: Molloy |
UK: Conservative government under Winston Churchill. |
UK: Festival of Britain. First electricity from atomic energy. Burgess and MacLean suspected of being Soviet spies. Science: First H-bomb tests. Art: Henry Moore, Reclining Figure. Classical music: Benjamin Britten, Billy Budd. Igor Stravinsky, The Rake's Progress |
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1952 |
Pearl S Buck: The Hidden Flower |
UK: Death of King George VI. |
UK: First test of atomic bomb. London trams taken out of service. Science: First contraceptive pill. First artificial heart. USA tests first hydrogen bomb. Popular music: Term 'Rock and Roll' being used. Classical music: John Cage, 4' 33" Cinema: Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain. |
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1953 |
Peter Abrahams: Return to Goli |
UK: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. |
UK: Plans for commercial TV. The Goon Show and Tony Hancock popular. USA: Playboy first published. Science: Polio vaccine developed. Watson and Crick propose double helix structure of DNA. Philosophy: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations. Cinema: Fritz Lang, The Big Heat. Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity. Federico Fellini, I Vitelloni. |
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1954 |
Peter Abrahams: Tell Freedom |
USA: US Supreme Court declares racial segregation in schools unconstitutional. H-bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. |
UK: End of food rationing. US evangelist Billy Graham holds massive meetings in London. Classical music: Britten, The Turn of the Screw. Schoenberg, Moses and Aron. Popular music: Rock and Roll era: Bill Haley and the Comets, Rock Around the Clock. |
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1955 |
Kingsley Amis: That Uncertain Feeling |
UK: Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister. |
UK: Upsurge in immigration from West Indies. Waiting for Godot gets poor reception. Start of ITV. USA: James Dean dies in car crash. Technology: First mass-produced transistor radios. Cinema: Richard Brooks, The Blackboard Jungle. Nicholas Ray, James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause. |
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1956 |
Kingsley Amis: A Case Of Samples: Poems 1946-1956 |
USA: Race riots. |
UK: 'Teddy Boys' rioting in cinemas to Rock Around the Clock. Popular music: Elvis Presley Heartbreak Hotel. Technology: Transatlantic telephone service started. Cinema: Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot, Doctor at Sea. Grace Kelly, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, High Society. |
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1957 |
Samuel Beckett: Endgame |
UK: Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister. |
UK: Harold Macmillan's 'never had it so good' speech. USA: Start of 'Beatnik' era. Technology: UK tests nuclear bomb. USSR launches first satellite, Sputnik. Popular music: Bill Haley and the Comets' first London performance. Tommy Steele and other British rock and roll bands start up. |
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1958 |
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart |
France: De Gaulle given powers to deal with French colonial crisis in Algeria, end of Fourth Republic. |
UK: CND founded - mass rally. Race riots in Notting Hill and Nottingham. Beatnik movement comes to UK. UK launches its first satellite. First parking meters. First stereo recordings. Popular music: Miles Davis, 'progressive jazz'. Oscar Peterson. My Fair Lady. Cinema: Hitchcock, Vertigo. Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle. Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries |
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1959 |
John Arden: Sergeant Musgrave's Dance |
USA: Protests against desegregation of schools. |
UK: 2/3 people now own a TV, cinema audiences declining. 'Mini' car launched. Aldermaston demonstration against nuclear weapons. First section of M1 motorway built. USA: Buddy Holly dies in plane crash. Technology: USA and USSR put satellites in space, monkeys survive space flight. European influence: Gunther Grass, The Tin Drum. Popular Music: Tamla Motown label formed. Cinema: French New Wave. Alain Resnais, Francois Truffaut. Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top. |
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