Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no graver portent in American life today than the determined effort to create a 'red' scare and exercise a censorship over our colleges and universities. If this campaign of terrorism and hysteria should succeed it would sound the death knell of academic freedom everywhere. Censorship by government, such as ruined the German universities overnight, is dreadful enough, but censorship by an irresponsible press which stops to dishonesty, trickery, and deceit to achieve its ends and by self-appointed super-patriotic guardians is worse; for that means censorship, passion, and prejudice and the beginning of an academic lynch...
...directions, the cook should be plopped into the barrel rump up. Clevelanders decided it would be wiser to exhibit her head. The Philadelphia Orchestra, which will give Lady Macbeth in March, considered an English translation but finally despaired of finding any that would pass even the most liberal censorship...
...definitely a sign of weakness on the part of church organizations and other reform groups when they resort to censorship. It is a confession of their own inability to instill in persons certain moral ideas that they think are right. The only test for the truthfulness of ideas can only be made when all ideas have the same opportunity for expression and when a choice between alternatives is afforded...
...problem which confronts you. It is not a question of whether this specific play is art, or even whether it is "nothing but a dirty book full of commonplace smut." It is rather a question which strikes at the ground work of our entire social system, namely, can censorship still be imposed upon...
...suggest the removal of all censorship where nothing appears against the will of these involved, or harms any other physically. This will give rise to a sort of natural selection of the fittest in literature...