Word: censored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Pravda's Unhappy. The real trick is not figuring out what the censor will dislike, but what ordinary Russians will like. Amerika's staff studies Russian newspapers and magazines, checks fan mail received by the embassy and samples reader opinion through State Department staffers in the U.S.S.R. Amerika's Russian readers think Peter Arno's school of humor vulgar and unfunny. Accustomed to treating Stalin & Co. with respect, they never laugh at jokes about U.S. Presidents and Senators. They prefer articles on science, the theater and industry, glimpses of U.S. home life. No. i on Amerika...