Word: censorable
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Though censorship was lifted, newspaper editors continued for several days to submit all copy to the censor's office, where a skeleton staff bemusedly stamped Autorizado on everything. Fernando Carvalho, news g editor of the Lourenço Marques daily Noticias said that his paper "is still climbing down from its enforced pro-Caetano posture, trying to explain to the readers why we supported fascists for so long...
...phrase "Banned in Boston" had little to do with movies in Massachusetts--except on Sundays. Even D.W. Griffith's notorious Birth of a Nation--banned in Chicago--was only edited in Boston. But on Sundays the Massachusetts censor held a firm hand. Two early Brattle movies, Miss Julie (from the Strindberg play) and Desires (a German film about morphine addiction) were officially barred from Sunday exhibition. On the second case Brattle went to court, and on July 6, 1955, in the case of Brattle Films v. Otis M. Whitney et. al., the Massachusetts Sunday Censorship Law was declared unconstitutional...
...imposing a gag on out-of-court comments by all trial participants, and he can sometimes delay the trial until a superheated atmosphere cools. But with Watergate, it is likely that the various juries will have to be sequestered in hotels under the constant eye of bailiffs who censor every outside contact...
With their backs against the walls of moral virtue, the censors are prepared for a knock-down-drag-out fight, which I expect will last for years to come. They've no choice, from their viewpoint, for this is the last bastion. It will do civil libertarians no good to cry "But if we censor here, where will it stop? Today, Deep Throat, tomorrow, free expression in the arts." The censors will cry equally plaintively, "But if we don't censor here, where will it stop? Today, Deep Throat, tomorrow, the destruction of our civilization." As befits a subject with...
...most persuasive spokesmen for the censor's side is Jack Vizzard, who spend a career in the Hollywood Production Code Office, passing judgment on the acceptability of motion pictures, and who wrote about it a few years ago in an entertaining book called See No Evil. Summing up at the end of his book, Vizzard warns that "a tyranny is set up of sordid competition for lowest common denominators, in which writer is set against writer, and creative mind against creative mind in a contest first for the bold, then the shocking, then the sickly fringe, and then, lastly...