Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OBSCENITY. When may governmental authorities censor or ban a book or movie without breaching the First Amendment? In two separate cases, involving bans on Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and the French movie The Lovers, the court may try to clear up the muddle created by past Supreme Court decisions on obscenity...
...statement was the final straw so far as Goulart was concerned. His Justice Minister declared the two state governors "in a true state of belligerence with the federal government," and the President went to Congress. If the Congressmen declare a state of siege, Goulart will assume power to censor the press, ban political meetings, search homes and make arrests without warrants, restrict travel, banish anyone to "any healthful populated area" in Brazil, and seize all state militias...
...buff from the bath and slithered to her vanity table. Playing the role of Hollywood Goddess Rina Marlowe, Carroll felt only a bit unnatural au naturel during the scene's eight takes. Said she: "Nobody made any jokes. Everybody behaved just beautifully." Everybody in this case included a censor who will be on the set full time so as not to miss anything that he might want the rest of the world...
...world beyond New Haven knew Whitney Griswold best for his cool-headed defenses of scholarly values. "Books won't stay banned," he warned in McCarthy-era 1952. "Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost." Yet he supported the theory that duty required teachers to cooperate with congressional investigators even if the "powers of legislative inquiry are abused." He blasted athletic scholarships, "the greatest swindle ever perpetrated on American youth," bulled through the simon-pure code that now governs Ivy League football. He fought to repeal...
...Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). "A Book for Burning" concerns a self-appointed censor and a novel he considers pornographic. Cast includes Walter Abel, Sam Wanamaker and Georgann Johnson...