Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from being, however, a democrat's paradise. Compared to a New England town meeting, it would still look almost as bad as the Soviet Union. Decisions are of course, made from the top, without approval or consent of the majority. Even though jamming of foreign broadcasts has been stopped, censorship is still very much in effect in the press and radio. Brzezinski reports that toward the end of his stay in Poland, there was a danger sign of increasing censorship, as he learned that a statement of Cardinal Wyszynski had been repressed...
...that little screen with disgusting little grey figures hopping around?" On writing: "It's getting to the point where no young man can live on straight writing. He has to go into another job, like doing television scripts-a fearful profession. In a democracy you now have financial censorship." On creeping concrete: "Architects are looking to cities 400 miles long. Extraordinarily repulsive." The cure for it all: "I've started work on a sort of reverse Brave New World, about a society which makes use of both East and West." Would it work? "Who knows...
Batista's answer was to slap Cuba under martial law, suspend all civil guarantees, impose an iron censorship. He ordered his troops to force open Santiago's stores and drive its buses. And his police made mass nationwide arrests...
Jesuit Weigel's objective statements concerning the Roman Catholics' small contribution to U.S. scholarship [July 8] are to be highly commended. Could the reason for this be that the totalitarian nature of Roman Catholicism, with its thought-control mechanisms of censorship, blacklisting, "excommunication" threats, etc., creates an atmosphere in which the necessary spirit of truly free inquiry cannot exist...
...York State Supreme Court justice. The publicist: Sydney S. Baron, speechwriter for Tammany Boss Carjnine De Sapio. Under the agreement, the lawyers and their crew of private investigators will have free access to any persons or documents in the Dominican Republic, will be free to publish their findings without censorship. "We know of no analogous instance," said De Moya, "when a sovereign state voluntarily has requested public judgment before the world by citizens of another sovereign state...