Word: censorably
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Harvard's irreverent band may be marching toward a confrontation with the censor...
Producer Schlatter, who is in charge of these tapings, also acts as referee and muse. Burly, bearded, he sits atop a tall stool in the studio, juggling phones, flipping through scripts, arguing with the censor and, occasionally, pinching the behind of any girl who is careless enough to stray within range...
...more than three centuries, one man had despotic power to decide what plays would or would not appear on the public stage in Britain. As the royal censor, the Lord Chamberlain could summarily order an offending word, line or scene stricken from a script, or he could ban a play altogether by refusing to license it for performance. Although blue-penciling has eased in recent years, English playwrights have persistently demanded total dramatic freedom, and last July Parliament abolished the Chamberlain's licensing authority. Two weeks ago, the U.S. folk-rock musical Hair became the first play publicly staged...
...official censorship was greeted with rejoicing by the London theater; last week there was a mock-serious funeral service for the royal censor in Chelsea. Meanwhile, Hair's actors executed what one critic called "a triumphal dance over the grave of the Lord Chamberlain." High time. With offices in the Palace of St. James's, the Lord Chamberlain is the senior officer of the royal household. Yet he and his four readers have also played the role of arbiters of public taste, passing judgment on some 800 new scripts each year. Their esthetic qualifications have been uncertain...
...Roof). The most notable modern playwright to run afoul of the Lord Chamberlain is John Osborne. One of his plays dealing with homosexuality, A Patriot For Me, was banned entirely;* almost every one of his scripts has had to be heavily laundered before the censor would give his approval...