In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.
The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.
The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.
In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.
What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism.
It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. . . . It was at this time that the idea of the scientists' petition against nuclear weapons tests was born. That evening we discussed it at length after dinner at my house and various ones of those present were scribbling and suggesting paragraphs. But it was Linus Pauling himself who contributed the simple prose of the petition that was much superior to any of the suggestions we were making.
