Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...censors," argues Mel, adding, "only people with authority can censor." The Gablers simply make their views available to school board members and concerned parents, Norma explains. "They could read the books themselves but for us to read them will save hundreds of hours of time. If you don't read them line by line, you miss the most deadly or damaging content...
...what do they say? They say I've tried to censor the student press--it's a complete lie," he said...
...Shostakovich answers: "Just like that, so that they wouldn't get un derfoot." The blind men's songs had not been passed by the censor. "Mighty deeds were being done there," he adds with fu rious sarcasm. "Complete collectivization was under way, they had destroyed ku laks as a class, and here were these blind men, walking around singing songs of dubious content." Shostakovich vows that some day, the people who were respon sible for this and similar "evil deeds" will be brought to account, if only before their descendants. "If I didn't believe in that...
...reporter, telling him what he could and could not write. If anything prejudicial to the defendant appeared in the newspaper, the judge warned, Bell would be subject to discipline. When the hearing resumed, Bell rose and told the judge he had "more important things to do" than censor his client's reporter, but the judge replied, "Not this afternoon you don't, counselor." Bell sat down, but Lord got up and walked out. The Evening Sentinel is appealing the odd ruling to the state supreme court, but meanwhile not a word about the pretrial hearing has been printed...
...deny a black a job purely because of his arrest record is discriminatory. His view that Chinese students have a right to a bilingual education, first expressed in a dissenting opinion, was later adopted by the Supreme Court. In an opinion in an obscenity case, he once wrote: "The censor and the illegal police raiding party are even less welcome in this country than the peddler of execrable sex materials, and with good cause...