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...parties. Noting that Harry "was addicted to the naked insult," Sherwood quotes Hugh Johnson without disapproval : "He has a mind like a razor, a tongue like a skinning knife, a temper like a Tartar and a sufficient vocabulary of parlor profanity-words kosher enough to get by the censor but acid enough to make a mule-skinner jealous . . . He's just a highminded Holy Roller in a semi-religious frenzy...
...animal drives. The Id's theme song is "I want." Man is born with an Id and soon develops an Ego, which learns the community rules and makes the decisions. The Ego says "I will" or "I won't." Last, there is the Superego, which is the censor or conscience. The Superego says, speaking to the other two, "You must" or "You must not," and demands punishment (in the form of a guilty conscience, worry, etc.) if its commands are violated...
With reference to the article "AntiSemitic Twist?" [TIME, Oct. 4], am I to believe that minority groups are now attempting to censor and to prohibit the presentation of certain [cinema] classics, particularly English classics...
...unusual hobbies; the theater and art. He and his wife go to every play they can and have a good collection of paintings (mostly of the Barbizon school), including a Sargent and a Sir Joshua Reynolds: Girl with a Bird. When the mayor of Omaha tried to censor some profanity from the Lunt-Fontanne production of Idiot's Delight, Oxnam got him to drop the attempt, declaring: "Censorship is more dangerous than an occasional realistic line. If the mayor decides to remain in politics, may I suggest a theme song for his coming campaign: 'Every little Damma must...
Boston was shaken by some old phrases from Playwright Noel Coward. The censor banned two quaint lines from his 15-year-old Design For Living (which played Boston uncensored in the early '305). One referred to a "wanton abode," the other to an "unpremeditated roll...