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...standard practice on cartoon shows to depict cows without udders. Heavy breathing was edited out of TV movies, "suggestive positions" out of wrestling films. Kisses were limited to a few seconds, and terms relating to childbirth were forbidden. Not even a pause was pregnant. Even today, TV censors are still fairly nervous. Not long ago, says Comic Godfrey Cambridge, a National Educational Television censor refused to permit Cambridge to say "homosexual." When he protested, the censor compromised: it was O.K. to say "queer...
...point plan asked the government to: 1) respect the autonomy of the University, 2) remove the article of social dissolution which was being applied to censor freedom of speech (the article enabled the police to arrest any one speaking against the government), 3) release all political prisoners, 4) dissolve the Granaderos--a special police corps used against demonstrations and riots; and not create any similar organization, 5) remove the chief and subchief of police--those who were responsible for the police brutality--and 6) open an investigation into the participation of the army and the actions of the four secretaries...
...clout, including Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevareid, could get away with expressing sharp personal opinion. And certainly nobody succeeded with blatantly risque humor. This past season, the Smothers Brothers, Rowan and Martin, and Johnny Carson, among others, have waged a deliberate campaign to get sex jokes past the censor - whom Carson sardonically calls "Miss Priscilla Goodbody." But it is in the realm of serious discussion that television's growing maturity really clears the air. "We no longer shut our eyes or shut off the facts," savs CBS Censor William Tankersley. "The world is a madhouse. TV gives some...
...Gernreich's plastic suit is offensive. Those black patches look like they were painted on by a movie censor...
...upon other expression of student opinion (than the petition) he finds substantial reason for requiring public discussion." In practice, Dean Glimp, who backs completely open recruitment, would never exercise this option. Still it seems a mistake to give any Dean such a free rein on action that could censor organizations from the campus...