Word: censor
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...opinion, which is rare in such lower courts, Judge Greene has just acquitted all twelve defendants. A judge cannot decide obscenity cases merely upon "his own predilections and prejudices," he said. "When a judge condemns without evidence, he is acting not as a court of law but as a censor. I decline that role." Holding that the burden of proof in obscenity cases was still fully upon the prosecutor, Judge Greene dismissed all charges because "the prosecutor failed in these cases to prove a vital element of the offenses...
...supercautious, colorless copy. Not CBS's Hughes Rudd. With characteristic zest, he breaks the general journalistic rule, and for some reason he is allowed to stay on. Ever since he arrived in Russia in February 1965, Rudd has twitted his hosts in sardonic, deadpan style. If the censor notices, he is obviously not annoyed; he either likes Rudd's jokes or he misses the point...
...maker appeared once, and was then withdrawn at the request of the Improvement of Advertising Content Committee, run jointly by the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies. So strongly have agencies turned to sex that the 20-man committee, which acts as an industry censor, is almost overworked: normally it reviews about 55 ads a year after receiving complaints, but this year it has already had 30 under scrutiny...
Having had the mantle of Cato the Censor draped upon my reluctant shoulders by the CRIMSON, hence-forth I will bend every effort to save Harvard's undergraduates from their sinful selves. CRIMSON WRITERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS, BEWARE! MY WATCHFUL EYES ARE UPON YOU. Arthur Friedman Teaching Fellow in Humanities
...prepare their cases because they will not know which criteria the judge will employ. The Supreme Court should be clarifying the law, but in last week's decisions, it only scrambled it. The decisions have gone a long way toward confirming doubts about a court's ability to censor what the public reads and sees...