Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guerrilla warfare" against the bourgeoisie. One of Le Gai Savoir's last images is a book cover reading Bertolt Brecht- from Rimbaud to Lenin, that is, from scatological to revolutionary. Attacks on bourgeois thought cannot limit themselves to "politics" narrowly defined; epater la bourgeoisie is a political slogan. The censorship of "obscenity" is thus a bourgeois device to restrict free thought. Everything could be discussed under a language that is really free...
...interview with White House Chef Henry Haller appears in the current Washingtonian magazine with lines drawn through certain sentences (still clearly legible) that White House staffers found objectionable. It was not censorship they wanted, the aides explained. They just did not think that the U.S. public needed to know that President Nixon mixed himself a martini every night before dinner, that the Nixons love meat loaf and hate calf's liver, that Pat Nixon "at times appears to lack a good appetite" and that she was in the White House eleven months before she visited the chefs...
Baaron Pittenger, assistant director of Athletics, has the responsibility of "advising" the Band on its halftime formations. Pittenger has emphasized that there are two distinct types of censorship...
Behind the recommendations lay the belief that enforcement of antismut laws is impossible, time-wasting, and a "threat to the free communication of ideas among Americans." Only a minority of Americans, said the commission members, favor censorship; a majority cherish the right to decide individually what books to read and what films...
...Nonviolelent Direct Action Group feels that the Army's prohibiting this distribution could provoke a test case on Army censorship...