Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still another yardstick, the Breen order seemed somewhat strange. As an outraged American Civil Liberties Union quickly noted, the production code office's parent body, the Motion Picture Association of America, was waging a legal fight against movie censorship by states and cities. Yet The Bicycle Thief already had passed muster with the official censors of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.* Was the M.P.A.A. trying to be more censorious than the very censorship boards it was opposing? Distributor Burstyn planned an appeal to the M.P.A.A.'s directors and beyond them to the U.S. public...
...must confess to ignorance on the policy of the University toward expression of opinions by professors in their lectures. I am opposed to any censorship or restriction of lecture material; expression of opinions through the usual channels of the press, however, would seem preferable, and any comments of this type in lecture should certainly be made subject to public answer. Frederick R. Coburn...
...free world talked fitfully of a last-hope parley with the Russians, the press wires from Moscow were singularly silent on the subject. The New York Times wondered what had happened to its Moscow correspondent, Harrison Salisbury. Then, when his copy finally came in, the Times discovered that Soviet censorship had held up everything. "Three [dispatches]," explained the Times, "were subjected to extraordinary censorship delays, varying from one to four days, presumably because they touch on matters that apparently have been undergoing high-policy discussion within the Soviet Government...
Though the stadium triumph had still to be ratified in this week's carnival street-dancing, it was a cinch that Attila, who had won six times before, would be the victor again. Attila had further increased his popularity by boldly protesting against the police department's censorship of calypso songs which ridiculed unpopular local officials. Sang Attila, in the last verse of his prize song: I don't think I am so loyal today...
Ever since the Allied Council for Japan was set up at war's end, the Russian members have battled doggedly with U.S. representatives over everything from land reform to schoolbook censorship. But from the start they appeared more or less resigned to U.S. predominance in Japanese affairs, and the council was spared the almost daily Russian flare-ups and walkouts of the now comatose Allied Control Council in Berlin. One day last week the Russian tactics changed: burly Lieut...