Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vatican has long conceded that the popular printing press can outrun any censor's pencil. Since 1900 the church has banned only 255 books, most of them theological works. (Best-known contemporaries on the Index: Philosopher Benedetto Croce, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.) Responsibility has been shifted to local bishops and, in the last analysis, to the individual to decide whether a particular book can injure the reader's faith. Explains a Vatican book censor: "People have different spiritual allergies...
Approval for "The Circus" was obtained from City Censor Walter Milliken after "Birth of a Nation" was cancelled because protesting local groups called it anti-Negro...
William B. Drexler '55, president of the Boston Cinema Society, yesterday charged City Censor Walter Milliken with breach of faith in the licensing of "Birth of a Nation," the film the Cinema Society proposed to show tomorrow and Saturday...
...film is poorly constructed. The transitions between scenes are sometimes so clumsy as to suggest that a censor had been at work, though I'm quite sure this was not the case. The action is very slow in getting started, and is too often carried on by means of simple two-person conversations. The music is obtrusively loud in spots...
...Censor's Whim. The editors learned their lesson the hard way. In 1944, with the Four Freedoms of the Atlantic Charter still ringing in their ears, 242 members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors passed a resolution urging the U.S. to persuade other nations to guarantee the press the same freedom that it enjoys in the U.S. Congress endorsed the A.S.N.E. proposal and the State Department drafted a proposed U.N. convention. Its main provisions would allow correspondents to move around the world freely, their copy safe from the whim of local censors, except where it touched on matters...