Word: censor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than fire. Book publishing first flourished in Russia under Catherine the Great, and yet it was she who used local police, corrupt and ignorant, to enforce the country's first censorship regulations. Czar Nicholas I conducted a sort of terrorism against certain books and writers. He functioned as personal censor for Pushkin and banished Dostoyevsky to Siberia. Revolution only encouraged the Russian candle-snuffers. Lenin said, "Ideas are much more fatal things than guns," a founder's nihil obstat that culminated in the years of poet destruction (Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva) and book murder under Stalin...
...hopes the Faculty will ignore Shinagel's proposal. Harvard should be an advocate, not an opponent, of the free press. Presumably, the free speech committee was formed to protect, not impede, our First Amendment rights. Drafting guidelines for campus publications would place the committee in the role of censor--when American society has already affirmed in numerous laws and court cases the freedom of the press...
...Spence in their statements clearly delineated the University's stance on academic freedom. "The fact that opponents could voice their concerns did not mean that the University would undertake to censor what professors lecture on in the classrooms," Bok said...
Speaking at the Kennedy School of Government, Judith Krug told an audience of about 25 University librarians that Reagan Administration efforts to censor information about crucial periods in recent history makes their duty to provide records to the public increasingly important...
Stop the presses ! The Supreme Court says school officials can censor student newspapers. -- Doctors vs. lawyers again over malpractice...