Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the book does not bear imprimatur (official endorsement), the Church Censor obviously perceived its inadequacies. This means that its statements of Church policy are non-official--so that this book hardly serves to, refute Blanshard even for a Catholic...
When they heard that the Boston Cinema Society was planning to show Birth of a Nation, members of the NAACP and the Equal Rights Society began addressing fervent protests to the City Censor and mumbling ominously about picket lines. Even though the film is a great cinema classic, it does present a rabidly Southern view of the Reconstruction era, and, after all, this would never...
...City Censor of course played his part, refusing to grant the Cinema Society a license. He argued on a technicality, but admitted that strong pressure had been brought to bear on him. And even if his verdict has only a temporary effect, few Boston theater-owners dare to flaunt pressure groups that threaten to haul out the placards and begin marching. At any rate, Birth of a Nation, scheduled for April 25-27 and widely advertised as such, has yet to grace a Boston screen this year...
Censorship has had many excuses, but the ones used most often usually have something to do with the protection of some dogma--everything from. The Faith to The American Way of Life. It is disappointing therefore to find that what was once a flexible concept, tolerance, has joined the censor's list of sacrosanct doctrines. We have no quibble with advocating tolerance, a trait which many Americans lack, but lately groups like the NAACP have shorn it of much of its richest meaning. Time was when tolerance meant permitting anyone to sample whatever was thrust before him, providing that this...
...glory of the Klan, it neither coerces moviegoers nor deprives them of any of their rights. The broader and narrower views of tolerance clash only when professional groups and public officials attempt unjustifiably to use one to crush the other, as the NAACP, the Equal Rights Society, and City Censor Milliken are doing...