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Spiro Agnew threatened to censor the mass media Harvard's Department of Athletics took the lead last weekend by twice censoring the Harvard University Band's halftime show...
...censor-dominated world of Arab journalism, there are some things one just does not do. Like dismissing Nasser's Arab Socialist Union as a "do-nothing organization," or belittling Arab commandos for shedding "more ink than blood," or ridiculing Egyptian "diplomats who are doing nothing but buying cars, or ties and perfume from Paris." One man not only writes such things but also gets away with it. In addition to being editor and voice of Egypt's biggest and most authoritative newspaper, AI Ahram (The Pyramids), Mohammed Hassanein Heikal happens to be Nasser's closest confidant, adviser...
...Scarbrough, 72, Lord Chamberlain of the royal household from 1952-63; of a heart attack; in Rotherham, Yorkshire. An old-school aristocrat whose family motto is "A Sound Conscience Is a Wall of Brass," the Lord Chamberlain ran head-on into the New Morality in his traditional role as censor of plays, protected Britons from histrionic homosexuality by barring such plays as Tea and Sympathy and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof from the London stage and emasculated Beckett's Waiting for Godot on grounds of blasphemy...
Perhaps the best hope in dealing with the erotic explosion is that the crassest, most commercial panderers will be curbed by law; beyond this, in legitimate arts and entertainment, a public sense of taste?and humor?will act as the best censor and restore some balance. Gresham's law does not necessarily apply to literature, theater or cinema. The bad drives out the good only temporarily. The point has been made briefly: anything can be shown. Now perhaps the time has come to remember that not everything has to be shown...
...Erotica has flourished in every society and under every kind of regime from the Pharaohs to the Maos. "Legalizing pornography," reasons Author Wilfrid Sheed, "will not destroy its appeal any more than ending Prohibition stopped people from drinking. Liberal cliche to the contrary, lust was not invented by the censors." But lust can indeed be helped along by the censor. The outwardly prudish Victorian era produced pornographic literature of unsurpassed richness and ingenuity. In the first five decades of this century, U.S. art and entertainment either were censored or practiced self-censorship. Yet those were decades of titillating sexuality, heavily...