Word: censorships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attack occurred one night a month ago, but all news of it had been blacked out by censorship. A young pro-Communist lieutenant colonel named Wahab Mocmour, who has recently armed some 1,500 plantation workers, launched a 300-man detachment in a fullscale, all-night attack against the headquarters of the 2nd Regiment of the First Military District. Rebel casualties: 48 killed, an unknown number wounded. The 2nd Regiment lost two dead...
...Godfrey summoned newsmen to the presidential suite of San Francisco's Sheraton-Palace Hotel last week and let them in on a few things. To keep CBS out of "jeopardy" over his strong views supporting manned bombers against guided missiles, said Godfrey, he has adopted a "self-imposed censorship" on his radio and TV shows. He admitted that his plans for the nation's defense-which he got down on hands and knees to illustrate with a table knife on the carpet -have already queered Godfrey himself with the Administration...
Russia was in the grip of Asian flu last week. Word filtered through the Soviet censorship that the widespread epidemic has hit the great cities of western Russia as well as towns in Siberia and the Caucasus. Leningrad was reported to have closed all schools for the first ten grades. In Moscow 500 doctors plus extra nurses and medical students were assigned to hospital duty. Vaccine, though claimed to be effective, was admittedly scarce; medical workers had top priority; next, those in transportation and communications...
...Huckleberry Finn from the list of approved textbooks for elementary and junior high school it deprived thousands of children of a chance to read one of the finest books ever written in this country and an all-time childhood classic. More important, it is an unfortunate example in minority censorship. The step, like the earlier panning of authors suspected of a pink tinge, represents a movement away from thoughtful and provocative education and toward an insipid parochialism in the public schools...
Furthermore the principle of minority censorship points dangerously toward cultural sterility. Much of art depicts and grows out of conflict. The artist formulates and may attempt some resolution of worldly conflicts; he does not cause them...