Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Upon completion, Dry Summer was reviewed and banned by a Turkish censorship board because, as Dogan put it recently, "I'm not beautifying anything, I am showing things as they are." Dogan even had to sneak his film out of the country to show it in film festivals around the world, and when he arrived back home, he was arrested for misrepresenting his country and smuggling. Since then the Turkish government has legalized the film, adapted from a novel of the same name by Necati Cumali, a lawyer involved in the actual case upon which this story is based...
...kids' imaginations, to encourage and inspire them. Koch said, "Perhaps the most important thing to do, I found, is to be positive about everything." I said to these kids, "Write anything you want." But in public schools the words "everything" and "anything" are already surrounded by an implicit censorship. Many of these children picked up on the work "anything" and wrote away with a fierce sense of vindication...
Chomsky charged that the American press knew that the United States was waging a private war with Cambodia and Laos throughout Nixon and Kissinger's first team in office, but acquiesced to a government appeal to practice self-censorship on the issue...
...three months since he agreed to take over from the discredited junta government of Greece, Premier Constantine Caramanlis has confidently steered the country back toward democracy. He has wiped out the repressions and suspicions of seven years of military dictatorship, freed political prisoners, abolished censorship, revoked martial law, advocated constitutional reforms and even legalized the Communist Party, which had been outlawed for the past 30 years. Now Caramanlis, 67, who was Premier from 1955 to 1963 and spent the past eleven years in self-imposed exile in France until his recall by the demoralized junta, is seeking a national mandate...
...Cult of Intelligence" is the first book ever to be subject to government censorship prior to publication...