Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most restive Russians are the intellectuals, who find increasingly unbearable a society in which creativity has been so consistently sacrificed to patriotic duty. For the most part, the regime continues to cosset compliant and unadventurous writers and artists, and to censor and chastise those whose work strays far from the official art form known as "socialist realism." For those who may ever have doubted it, Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva recently gave assurances that the party is not about to reverse its literary policy and publish books that contain "unjust generalizations," such as Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Last week...
Died. Eddy Gilmore, 60, Associated Press foreign correspondent for 32 years, eleven of them (1942-53) in Moscow; of a heart attack; in East Grinstead, England. Said Gilmore of his Russian labors: "I wrote for the smallest audience in the world, that one censor whose blue pencil ripped my copy-and my heart...
Does Harvard University, which makes no bones about limiting the heterosexual hours of its students, also try to censor away the vicarious pleasures of reading...
...opposition was offered by former Israeli Ambassador to Warsaw, Dov Sattath, who reported receiving 3,200 letters of support from Polish gentiles during the Middle East crisis. Most were signed and bore the sender's address-an act of considerable courage in a country where the censor is as ubiquitous as the corner mailbox...
...Something is amiss in the great port city of Canton in the year A.D. 680, when Judge Dee arrives from Peking, ostensibly to look into foreign trade. What is missing-and what the Tang dynasty's master detective is looking for-is a fellow named Lew, the Imperial censor and pivotal power in the palace intrigues of the capital. Lew soon turns up dead, murdered by a delayed-action poison. The judge, of course, finds his culprit after dealing with a clutch of lively characters: the blind and beautiful Lan-lee, who collects crickets; Zumurrud, a half-caste belly...