Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MARCH 25, the day after a military coup overthrew the government of Isabel Peron, an army major in charge of public relations in the city of Cordoba called a press conference. He instituted "temporary" press censorship and finished his instructions by saying, "Remember, I don't want to see any mention of Chile." On March 30, General Jorge Videla, the head of the ruling military junta, announced on national television that his new regime was deeply committed to human rights, based on "profound Christian convictions." The smooth and relatively bloodless coup followed by constant reassurances stemmed from a well-defined...
...seems likely that the Argentine junta, sensitive to the international revulsion against a violent coup comparable to Chile's, decided to act in two stages. First, a moderate period with sporadic arrests and little censorship, then strict censorship and the imposition of a hard, repressive line. Videla, Agosti and Massera count on two things. This carefully orchestrated two-stage process may allow them to carry out repressive measures under less international pressure. Furthermore, the solidarity campaigns organized in the United States, Canada and Europe, which were so successful in saving many Chilean lives, have somehow become exhausted. Almost three years...
...porno peddlers who profit from ignorance and lust [April 5]. Fie on the libertines who raise phony cries of censorship. And fie on the decent folk whose self-righteous apathy has permitted this appalling advanced case of acne to creep across the face of America...
...insatiable." Slade and Marcus may be making the same point: it was precisely the repressive nature of prudery that created a taboo-rich culture in which Victorian porn fantasies could take exotic shape. But if the porn industry finds no limits, it could perhaps reawaken the American taste for censorship. The very thought is anathema to most Americans. The danger is that it may be found more supportable than the worst conceivable outcome of the porno plague: a brutalizing of the American psyche that turns U.S. society into the world portrayed in A Clockwork Orange...
...Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, "Snuff would head the list." The movie was banned in Baltimore, Wilmington, Del., and Orange County, Calif. In New York City, protesters picketed the theater showing Snuff. Such fledgling porn fighters as Critic Susan Sontag, Historian Martin Duberman and Author Grace Paley demanded censorship and prosecution...