1950
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"Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not the crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the 'coolies' of India and the 'niggers' of Africa." --Discourse on Colonialism (1950) by Aimé Césaire |
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1950 (MCML) was the 950th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1950s decade.
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Art and culture
- Notre-Dame Affair in Paris France
- G-Spot described by Ernst Grafenberg
- Fawcett Publications' Gold Medal Books began publishing original works in paperback.
Music
- Symphonie pour un homme seul, first concert of musique concrète
- "Don't Roll Your Bloodshot Eyes At Me" by Hank Penny
Film
- Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa
- Treatise on Slime and Eternity by Isidore Isou
- Un chant d'amour by Jean Genet
Visual art
- Autumn Rhythm by Jackson Pollock
Literature
- The Authoritarian Personality by Adorno et al.
- L'Abbé C by Georges Bataille
Births
- Patrick Cowley (1950 - 1982)
- Gwen Guthrie (1950 - 1999)
- Stevie Wonder (1950 - )
- Patrick Adams (1950 - )
- John Sayles (1950 - )
- Andres Serrano (1950 - )
- Tony Wilson (1950 - )
- Jenny Holzer (1950 - )
- Sandra Julien (1950 - )
- Corinne Clery (1950 - )
- Marie Liljedahl (1950 - )
Deaths
- January 8 – Joseph Schumpeter, Czech economist, political scientist (b. 1883)
- January 21 – George Orwell, British author (b. 1903)
- February 13 – Rafael Sabatini, Italian writer (b. 1875)
- March 4 – Sid Grauman, American theatre entrepreneur (b. 1895)
- March 19 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (Tarzan) (b. 1875)
- March 24 - Harold Laski, British political theorist, economist (b. 1893)
- April 1 – F. O. Matthiessen, American historian, literary critic (b. 1902)
- April 3 – Kurt Weill, German-born composer (b. 1900)
- April 8 – Vaslav Nijinsky, Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer (b. 1889)
- July 1 – Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1873)
- August 27 – Cesare Pavese, Italian poet, novelist (b. 1908)
- September 6 – Olaf Stapledon, British author, philosopher (b. 1886)
- October 23 – Al Jolson, American musician, actor (The Jazz Singer) (b. 1886)
- November 2 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
- November 25 - Johannes V. Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
- December 5 – Sri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
- December 26 – Liane de Pougy, French vedette and dancer (b. 1869)
- December 27 – Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884)
