Word: censor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school year I decided to publish another issue. Since I couldn't sell it, it came mostly out of my pocket. I just wanted to prove my rights. It made the teachers mad. The principal said he decided not to censor it -- with the lawyers and everything he didn't have the right -- but he just wanted to sound tough...
...infringing on his rights," Kaczynski said. "We didn't set up a committee to review what they could print beforehand. We're not trying to censor him. We just want to protect the campus from obscenity and poor taste...
Playwright Janusz Glowacki, 48, understands these frustrations all too well. After his novel Give Us This Day, about the birth of Solidarity, was banned by the Polish censor in 1981, Glowacki arrived in the U.S. as a virtual unknown. Hunting Cockroaches, which opened off-Broadway last week, transmutes his struggles into vibrant farce devoid of self-pity. During an emblematic sleepless night, as nightmare figures ranging from an immigration officer to condescending liberals pop out from beneath their bed, the pragmatic couple never complain of life's unfairness. They accept having to prove themselves. They just wish it would...
Nevertheless, some people respond, it is much easier to combat child labor problems than it is to fight sexism in advertising. The only real way to end such portrayals is to censor the advertisers, which, in the opinion of some, violates free speech, and, in the opinion of others, is too dangerous because of its potential for abuse...
...Newspapers can no longer even leave spaces where material has been removed. The restrictions are too Byzantine to describe in full, but the net effect is that the South African government now controls everything that is published or broadcast from that country. The government's intent is clear: to censor the fact of censorship, to so limit access to information that whites will have no idea of the scope of unrest in Black areas. That goal may seem implausible to foreigners, but apartheid means "separation" for a reason. With few exceptions, there is no indication of unrest in the areas...