Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston University News Exercised the freedom of the press last week and was prompty trampled upon by every self-appointed censor in the university. That the paper will probably survive is testimony only to the tenacity of the students who write it. And still unanswered is the question of what will happen the next time the News takes a controversial stand...
...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...maker appeared once, and was then withdrawn at the request of the Improvement of Advertising Content Committee, run jointly by the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of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