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...middle of this decade because of the difficulty in finding and exploiting oil and gas in remote and inhospitable expanses. By numerous indexes ?electrification, physicians and nurses per capita, teacher-to-pupil ratios, books published per annum?the U.S.S.R. is an advanced, and still advancing society. Despite censorship and an official ethos that discourages innovation, Russian culture of the Soviet era has produced masterpieces of Western civilization, especially in music, poetry and dance...
This hassling creates a climate of self-censorship and an implicit demand to pretty-up reality. Says Topol: "If you just set up a camera anywhere in the Soviet Union and shoot life as it is, it looks terrible. It jumps out at you from the screen." Yet the directors soldier on. Some search patiently for a historical or fantastical work that will not overstrain the censorious mind. Still others find a style of shooting an approved scene that will change its meaning without altering a word of the preapproved script. A happy ending darkly lit will not, for example...
...authors of the last editorial are also doing a disservice to their cause by implying a lack of concern for First Amendment Freedoms. Stork and Hagen may have abandoned any claims to our respect, but they have not "relinquished their claims to our sympathy on grounds of unfair censorship." It is important to realize that a conviction of Stork and Hagen would be a triumph of puritanism, not radical feminism. And those of us on the left must always remember that any attempts to undermine free speech must ultimately hurt us far more than those in power...
...hindered Moravia's career. His entwined political and sexual themes were assured attention by strictures from il Duce and the Vatican. His latest novel, La Vita Interiore (The Internal Life), was banned last year under Italy's broad obscenity laws. The old national debate over censorship was rekindled; Moravia's gray head bloomed once again on magazine covers, and brawls erupted at public meetings where sections of the novel were read aloud...
...crew technicians. "They're just doing their job!" Hitler complained. The DA seized the reels of film. "Smut," he muttered under his breath. They led Hitler and his technicians down the steps and outside Quincy House, where the angry customers railed after them with beers and fists, shouting, "Censorship! Freedom of expression! We have the right!...Censorship! Freedom of expression! We have the right!...Censorship! Censorship! Censorship...