Word: censor
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...last two years, and The Crimson chose not to accept the advertisement even though it strongly opposed reparations in an editorial last March. But that did not stop the Herald from being lambasted as racist, nor did it stop The Crimson from being called an arch-liberal censor...
...using the rejection of his ad by The Crimson and other college newspapers to argue, as he put it in a letter to The Wall Street Journal, that "moral and physical intimidation" by "the political left that is fully in control of the campus public square is able to censor views that it finds objectionable...
...noted the work of Mel and Norma Gabler, self-anointed textbook watchdogs who compile lists of errors [EDUCATION, Feb. 12]. It would be nice if the Gablers kept their amending of school texts to grammatical mistakes. They are well known, however, for being extreme right-wing Christians who censor books freely if they stray from the Gablers' ultra-right-wing Christian agenda. These people are no better than German censors who burned books that departed from their ideology. MONTINO BOURBON DEL MONTE Santa Barbara, Calif...
...just trying to talk to the university to figure out what type of actions can be taken," Williams said. "You can't fire [Mansfield] and you can't completely censor him, but is there any effective way of letting him know that these statements cannot be made...
...verbal comic, Allen was the fastest gun in the business, and a true heir to Groucho Marx for his inventiveness with language, constantly pirouetting around the tired cliché or the pretentious phrase. Yet he had an infallible internal censor that kept his wisecracks from ever being cheap, or risqué, or mean. He kept a police whistle at his desk, which he'd blow whenever a line or bit of business crossed the line. He remained old-fashioned that way, as well as in his stubborn refusal, unlike Carson and almost everyone that followed, to do "savers" when...