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...language, he soon discovered, was filled with political connotations, embodying a bitterness, and an irony, found nowhere else in Russian society. "Censorship there looks attentively, not only at every book, but at every poem, every postcard, even at music," he explains. "Language used in an ironical or satirical form is the single means of expressing protest. In its very savageness it makes for an understanding of the hypocrisy of the situation...
...would appear that the networks believe they have a unilateral and inalienable right to use any material they choose to their economic advantage. If, however, another group with a differing opinion chooses to use the free-enterprise mechanism to express itself, its course of action is construed to be censorship...
That mandate is specific: to control inflation, to reduce unnecessary governmental interference in private lives and in business, to reassert America's prominence in the world. That is all there is to it, and that is plenty. The mandate does not necessarily include far-right hit lists, censorship, the absence of gun control, prayer in schools and a constitutional amendment banning abortion. These things are significant if problematical, but they do not represent majority wishes. Nor does the Reagan mandate suggest approval of a national pulpit for Jerry Falwell's lethal sweet talk or of the National Conservative Political Action...
More troubling is the spectacle of a church council giving translators directives that represent in effect a censorship of the Scriptures. Such conduct by ecclesiastical authorities, always for motives that appeared laudable at the time, has a long and unhappy history...
...tanks and rockets could also be the reply." On Dec. 5, Solidarity declared a six-week moratorium on strikes. It also toned down its rhetoric. When the government suspended screenings of Workers 80, a film about the strikes, the union raised only a mild protest. A month earlier, such censorship would have provoked a strike threat at the very least...