Word: censorships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bitter agony." Writes Professor Fiedler: "This is a difficult doctrine in all times and places, and it is especially alien and abhorrent in present-day America where anguish is regarded as vaguely unAmerican, something to be grown out of, or analyzed away, even expunged by censorship; and where certainly we do not look to our churches to preach the uses of affliction. It is consolation, 'peace of mind,' 'peace of soul,' that our religions offer on the competitive market place; the means are different, the pew versus the analyst's couch or the newest bestseller...
Neck-Deep in Snow. To drive home the point, the Navy's information boss, Rear Admiral Robert F. Hickey, went over to the Times-Herald office and handed a copy of Tokyo's repudiation to Executive Editor Frank Waldrop. After reading it, Waldrop replied: "If you had censorship, letters like that wouldn't be sent...
...Exactly what is happening in or about Korea," said the Post last week, "ir impossible to report because of 1) the censorship in the field and the secrecy in Washington, and 2) the propaganda-like quality of the commentaries emanating from General MacArthur's headquarters." Asked the Post: "Who is fooling whom...
...Ireland's prim Censorship of Publications Board slapped a ban of six months to a year on 14 U.S. magazines. Sample titles: Nifty, All True Fact Crime Cases, Special Detective. Esquire, banned nine months ago for being "indecent and obscene," was suspended indefinitely...
...first few days under censorship, the blue pencils were light and copy flowed along smoothly. But at week's end the honeymoon ended. Eighth Army Headquarters in Korea ordered NBC's Kenneth Kantor and U.P.'s Peter Webb confined to quarters for a "gross security violation" in disclosing prematurely the death of Lieut. General Walton Walker in a jeep accident (see WAR IN ASIA). Full field censorship was ordered for all press copy, and telephones used by newsmen covering Eighth Army Headquarters were removed...