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William B. Drexler '55, president of the Boston Cinema Society, yesterday charged City Censor Walter Milliken with breach of faith in the licensing of "Birth of a Nation," the film the Cinema Society proposed to show tomorrow and Saturday...
...film is poorly constructed. The transitions between scenes are sometimes so clumsy as to suggest that a censor had been at work, though I'm quite sure this was not the case. The action is very slow in getting started, and is too often carried on by means of simple two-person conversations. The music is obtrusively loud in spots...
...Censor's Whim. The editors learned their lesson the hard way. In 1944, with the Four Freedoms of the Atlantic Charter still ringing in their ears, 242 members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors passed a resolution urging the U.S. to persuade other nations to guarantee the press the same freedom that it enjoys in the U.S. Congress endorsed the A.S.N.E. proposal and the State Department drafted a proposed U.N. convention. Its main provisions would allow correspondents to move around the world freely, their copy safe from the whim of local censors, except where it touched on matters...
...understand Yiddish, you will soon realize that the Boston censor probably cannot speak a word of it. But even if you don't know a bagel from a kugel, an evening spent at Bagels and Yox will be thoroughly enjoyable...
...despite this , the issue it raises is a serious one: does any group have the right to censor the teaching of others. The answer is that no one should have the right to prevent an individual from teaching what he thinks right. Indeed, the Committee's charges themselves are indicative of the growing attack directed against those in the teaching profession; it represents a profound mistrust and an unjustified fear that academic freedom will harm liberties. The Committee erroneously believe that by taking away some liberties, they are insuring others...