Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced revolutionization of Russia on a state-industry basis, the communization of agriculture, the policy of terrorism, the war against religion, the rigid censorship in education, press and everything else--all these are but inseparable parts of the same general system which bear all the characteristics of a fanatical and intolerant doctrine of religion: 'No god but Karl Marx and Lenin his only prophet...
...from its more or less temporary handicap of inability to register many voices accurately, the talkie has several permanent defects. These are due for the most part to the fact that the success of a picture is judged solely by its 'sell.' This means that it must pass the censorship of forty-eight states and several foreign countries. When a play is done for the movies, it is immediately emasculated. The manoeuvers of the average Hollywood film magnate in adapting a play with any degree of frankness would be amusing if the situation implied were not so serious...
...Added to legal censorship is what might be called a form of self-censorship. A movie cannot antagonize any element of the population. Even in the more romantic movies this self-censorship is found necessary. The problem of whom to cast for the villain is one of the most difficult. He cannot be either Chinese, Mexican, coloured, Jewish, or Irish if his character is objectionable...
Author Elliot Paul is advisory editor of transition and has dedicated his book to Her Upsettledness Gertrude Stein (famed maker of verbal crazy quilts); but he has written it in the good old-fashioned way. A native of Massachusetts, he is the author of a bill against censorship introduced in the State Legislature by Senator Henry Parkman Jr. last December. His other books: Indelible, Impromptu, Imperturbe, Low Run Tide, Lava Rock...
...little learning has King Alexander of Jugoslavia as to what the rest of the world thinks of assassins. Shrewd, His Majesty ordered news of the Princip memorial suppressed, and when it leaked out commanded the Foreign Office to dismiss the Chief Censor. Frightened, stupid underlings at the Bureau of Censorship freely passed despatches telling how Dictator-King Alexander had almost succeeded in keeping the world ignorant that his people have glorified a deed doubly foul?for Assassin Princip slew not only the Heir of Austria but also His Royal Highness' morganatic wife, Sophie Countess Chotek, mother of two sons...