Word: censor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority opinion written by John F. Dooling, Jr., District Court Judge for the Eastern District of New York, the court concluded that the government cannot censor information intended for a person's exercise of political judgement, and noted that sovereignty rests not with the government but with the people...
...those who want to censor some aspect of life think that they can eliminate only what they dislike and disapprove of. It is ironic to note that those who often complain when someone else, as for example Vice-President Agnew, attempts to censor the media, find themselves in virtually the same position as they attempt to censor. They would say that their motives are higher, and that they are right in their attempts to censor because of their knowledge, whereas the motives of others are lower and they are wrong in their attempts. But in my opinion, those who would...
Harvard's band escaped its censor last week and tickled the alumni people with its filthiest and best halftime show of the season...
When Saved opened in London in 1965, it attained instant notoriety and provoked considerable outrage because of a scene in which a group of men stone a baby to death in its pram. The Lord Chamberlain, whose authority to censor plays has since been abolished, banned further showings. The Edward Bond play is now making its first New York appearance at the Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn. While the baby-killing episode is still potently emetic, playgoers have become inured to so many acts of gratuitous violence, on and offstage, that the scene now seems more prophetic than scandalous...
...white inmates in charge of food mix urine, feces and ground glass into the black inmates' dinner. He refuses to pretend to the parole board that he has become a "good boy." He refuses to hide his feelings about prison and those in authority from the eyes of the censor of his letters. He refuses to lie to his parents, to tell them that he believes in their white god, their subservience, that he will bend as they want to the overwhelming oppression of white society. The letters are grim, determined, their only humor an irony about failings. They...