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...obscenity as a kind of "non-speech" -no longer protected by the familiar test that bars only those words that carry a "clear and present danger" of inciting anti-social conduct. Roth also carefully declared: "Sex and obscenity are not synonymous." And in later cases, the court refused to censor sexual expression unless 1) "the material is utterly without redeeming social importance," 2) "the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest" in the "average" adult, and 3) "the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards," meaning national standards defined...
...government has managed in recent years to control its artists through unofficial channels, these unexpected proceedings might appear to be a last-ditch maneuver in a losing battle. But the deliberate staging of the trial, almost inviting foreign criticism, is a confident reassertion of the government's right to censor. The harsh sentences imposed by the Supreme Court indicate that this is in fact a precedent for future suppression...
...Tonight Show, for instance, where Actor Ray Milland recently told that ever-so-funny story about having to go to the bathroom in a swimming pool while filming a scene. "I don't want the industry to degenerate," said Lee. He just wants the broadcasters to censor themselves a little for the public. In private, grinned the commissioner, "I'm one of the greatest off-color storytellers in town...
...Asian missionaries whose church is a Quonset hut. Methodist Observer Albert C. Outler of Texas says that "several of the decrees and declarations are substandard; several are no better than mediocre." One of the worst is a decree on mass communications which implies the right of governments to censor the press; hardly better is the declaration On Christian Education which is little more than a cliche-ridden defense of parochial schools...
...advances-and agonizingly, determinedly labored to produce Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, The Titan, and his autobiographical The "Genius." By 1916, Dreiser was the hero of the avant-garde and the pet peeve of the Nice Nellies, who denounced The "Genius" as literary sewage and got it banned by the censor. Crushed, Dreiser fell silent for ten years...