Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...banned in Boston and remains banned, by a 7-1 vote of the U.S. Supreme Court that overturned a federal court decision against a censorious local tribunal. The lone dissenter was much-married Justice William O. Douglas, who emphasized that he voted as he did because he is against censorship-"not because, as frequently charged, I relish obscenity...
...campaign and launched a formal complaint with the Board of Directors of School Administrative District 44, which has jurisdiction over Telstar High. The Board voted sixteen to one to appoint an investigating committee. The sole dissenter, Richard Davis, based his vote on his blanket opposition to all kinds of censorship, adding that he had read the material in question and found it "in line with the literature being published today...
...Agnew did not cut the deck between constitutional freedom or Machiavellian censorship; rather, he spread the cards on the table to reveal any irresponsible freedom or censorship that might "already exist." Perhaps such a critical hand might be just helpful enough to bluff the aim of some joker's camera or steady a film editor's slippery scissors that can hack or heal history in one snip...
...Jose State College's Spartan Daily ran a straightforward front-page news story on the founding of a campus chapter of the Gay Liberation Front, scandalized trustees of the state's 19-campus college system overrode protests by faculty and student leaders and voted to tighten censorship on all student newspapers...
WHILE Soviet authorities threatened Alexander Solzhenitsyn with exile, Anatoly Kuznetsov, a voluntary defector to Britain, was facing criticism from fellow authors in the West. In the U.S., Playwright Lillian Hellman has accused Kuznetsov of cowardice for waiting until he was abroad before protesting against Soviet censorship. Novelist William Styron has reproached Kuznetsov for not remaining silent after his defection. Kuznetsov's own publisher in Britain observed that "decisions taken in states of emotion are generally the wrong ones." Kuznetsov replied to one of his critics that his old apartment in the city of Tula was now vacant...