Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question is not whether Radcliffe has the "right" to do what it has done--and what it has done is clearly to assume authority to censor the news--but whether, according to the objectives of a liberal educational institution in a democratic society, it ought to have done it. My own opinion is that the protection of Radcliffe's good name is no justification for censorship, and that inaccuracy and lack of ethics, if they existed, should have been dealt with in any of a number of ways short of censorship. If more discussions were on this point, instead...
...American government can't censor the press; it can't tell reporters what they may print and what they may not. The Radcliffe government can and does...
When Cole Porter's new musical, Out of this World, opened in Boston, orders, went out to tidy up the lyrics and dress up the cast, particularly Venus, who wore only four white doves. The producers agreed, grumbling: "We regret that the Boston censor has found reason to be shocked by the authentic Greek bacchanalian atmosphere...
...censorship in the Western Hemisphere, notably in Latin America. In a committee report that pulled no punches, the countries where censorship exists and the degree of press repression were ticked off. Peru, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and 13 other countries were all criticized for current or recent attempts to censor the press. But the chief and most persistent offender named by the editors was Argentina...
...Russians have been putting the same squeeze on Amerika, the Russian-language, LiFE-like monthly published by the U.S. Department of State (TIME, June 6, 1949), even though they have the right to pre-censor it. Circulation has dropped from 50,000 copies a month to 20,000. But the State Department has made no protests, will continue to publish Amerika unless it is officially banned...