Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...institutions in or out of college." He doubts the sincerity and significance of student discontent upon evidence gathered from five sources: the Boston University Beanpot, the Harvard Lampoon, the Harvard Advocate, the Nassau Literary Magazine, and the Syracuse University Speckled Bird--all of which fell under the ban of censorship. If the two Harvard publications are representative of the others in this quintet, it would be folly to say that their suppression is evidence of any deepseated revolt among college students. Harmless satire bordering on bad taste is not sufficient proof of a revolutionary spirit. Satire and parody do furnish...
...continuance of martial law and a severe press censorship in Bulgaria were the outer signs of an inner state. High tension had been caused by the recent assassination bombing outrages (TIME, Apr. 27, May 4). Some fighting and another attempt on the life of King Boris (subsequently denied by the Sofia Government) were reported...
...bomb outrage at the Cathedral was taken to be a signal for a general uprising of the Bulgarian Bolsheviki against the Government. A strict censorship was established by the Government, but reports leaked out-of hand-to-hand fights in Sofia, of assassinations, plunderings and terrorism in the Provinces, of ugly skirmishes on the Greek and Serbian borders. More than 1,000 persons were arrested in Sofia. House to house searches were made. Martial law was proclaimed. Some 400 Bolsheviki were summarily executed. A quantity of Red revolutionary evidence was found. Central Europe was alarmed...
...attitude of the Liberal Club in the matter of censorship is too well known to need elucidation. There are, of course, on the news stands many periodicals for the suppression of which more or less reasonable argument might be advanced; but in the case of the suppression of the Lampoon, surely the zeal of our protectors has outrun itself...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS−Eugene O'Neill's play which, by reason of its art, has defied censorship of its bitter picture of New England infidelity...