Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...otherwise. But Mr. Wilton A. Barrett, executive secretary of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, has undertaken to explain the phenomenon on a purely empirical basis, and, since this is a professional matter for him, he carefully eschews facetiousness. Much investigation has convinced him that motion-picture, censorship is due primarily to "the bewilderment of any people confronted with a new mode of expression"; this simple analysis, however, is merely a starting point for the learned Mr. Wilton. a combination of erudition and suspicion has convinced him that there must be something deeper behind it; so 'possibly there...
...nervous did Adamic finally become about Jugoslavian censorship that he decided to leave the country unexpectedly. Safely across the border with the notes for his book, he breathed more easily. Though he was glad to have seen the old country again, he was yet gladder that he did not have to live there. He feels sorry for Jugoslavians, thinks they are condemned to be cannon fodder at no distant date...
...Administration is committed to a policy of trial and error. This censorship of broadcasting has been given a trial; now admit that it was an error and change the ruling. Imagine the reaction of listeners to Mr. Roosevelt's words-read in the pseudo-Oxonian accents of a typical announcer...
...every first-hand reader of Ulysses there have been scores of second-hand gossipers. Censorship rather than sound criticism has spread its reputation throughout the Western world. What the man in the street has heard of Ulysses has made him prick up his ears. Usually his first question...
...Premier Saito and Foreign Minister Hirota, will pursue a pacific foreign policy and, while her relations with Russia leave something to be desired, the talk of war with that country has no real basis in fact, and relations will soon be improved; in line with this policy a rigid censorship will be imposed upon the Japanese press and all chauvinistic articles will be deleted...