Word: censored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Kerr, professional critics tend to take an unreasoning position against any form of censorship; equally alarmed at this anarchic attitude, Catholics damn all critics as "artsakists" who are insensitive to sin and indifferent to its effects. Wise censorship simply means the exercise of prudence, says Kerr, but "the censor is not acting out of clear knowledge. He is acting in a kind of ignorance." And he should proceed with great caution for fear of destroying something good...
...other purpose in life than sheer enjoyment found described a way of life exactly to their taste. The cynical, lusty tale of the love life of two brothers and their single girl friend was promptly transcribed into a movie whose uninhibited fidelity to detail would have whitened a Hollywood censor's hair overnight. More books and more movies followed, each proclaiming in brutish simplicity the joys of pointless violence and casual lust. The first novel lent its name to the cult of its worshipers, and the worshipers returned the compliment by doing their best to imitate the book. Mostly...
...tremendous excitement it generated in audiences was mostly Freudulent. The play packed them in on Broadway for more than 20 months, and was sold to Hollywood for $300,000. After that, the movie world wondered: Had M-G-M spent a bad buck? For almost a year the Hollywood censors and the studio bosses hassled over the weighty problems the film posed. Is the U.S. moviegoer old enough to be told that there is such a thing as homosexuality? Is it decent to suggest that there are worse things than adultery? The answer to both questions was a resounding...
...London, Britain's Lord Chamberlain Roger Lumley, Earl of Scarbrough, offi cial censor of public stage plays, slapped a ban on Playwright Miller's latest one-acter, A View from the Bridge. "The play has a theme of incestuous love," ex plained Miller ruefully. "That got by all right, but the censor objected to a scene" in which two men embrace one another." ¶ Wife Marilyn was getting mixed no tices. From her old (69) acquaintance, Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, with whom La Monroe sipped gin and grapefruit juice, came a highbrow huzza: "She's quite remarkable...
...advice from the expert was followed, brought no complaints from viewers. Expert Helffrich, 44, is NBC's director of continuity acceptance, which means he is a censor with the accent on the positive. Aided by a coast-to-coast staff of 35, he passes on all radio and TV material that goes out over the network. But he has transformed the censor's formula ("You can't do this") into the editor's ("This...