Word: censorable
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...Visca committee was originally organized to investigate charges of police torture of prisoners. Ignoring such tiresome matters, Visca set himself up as unofficial national censor. At first he took the trouble to find some legalistic excuse for suspending publication of anti-Perón papers. The last six he shut down without explanation; ten more papers, deprived of newsprint, quietly ceased to appear. As long as President Perón continued to support Congressman Visca, Argentines would be entitled to only such press freedom as Visca cared to give them...
...neck. Herodias' tent was surmounted by umbrella skeletons which undulatingly opened and shut throughout the performance. John's severed head was a tame affair that looked more like a haggis: Dali's more horrifying head had been axed at the last minute by the censor. What delirium the audience felt was set off by redheaded Bulgarian Soprano Ljuba Welitch, who made a U.S. hit as Salome at the Metropolitan Opera last season. For eleven curtain calls she got cheers that rattled the railings in the standees' gallery. When short, tuxedoed Director of Productions Brook edged...
...presented with truth and sincerity, there will be very few Hollywood productions indeed which could ever be shown. [If] censorship on this ground should be limited to documentary subjects, then the attempted restrictions on free speech become all the more obvious ... If the board has power to censor for inaccuracies and hypocrisies, there is no reason why such a board could not censor every book, every newspaper, every speech in the state...
...told the CRIMSON that the Chancery actually "tried to hinder publication by asking him to submit anything he 'was worried about.'" This, he claims, he was glad to do. He said he always submitted his own works, but he felt he was as competent as any other priest to censor his student's articles...
...repulsive native agents seek to destroy what is best in the country." Mrs. Paul Robeson explained that her husband had stayed in the U.S. "to finish the battle of Peekskill" (TIME, Sept. 5). Only the U.S.'s O. John Rogge, after unsuccessful efforts had been made to censor him, struck a discordant note, and his was one of the last speeches. Before he finished saying that "the excesses of capitalism are balanced by the excesses of Communism," most of the audience had walked...