Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lessen student freedom of expression more than at a private institution. Legislative control of funds and tax exemptions exert considerable silent pressure on the complete exercise of academic freedom. At Brooklyn College, a New York City-supported school, this issue has blown up into a public controversy over alleged censorship of the campus literary magazine, Landscapes...
Aside from their esthetic merits, the four stories give heartening evidence that mutiny is in the making aboard Italy's censorship. In 1952, complaining that the neorealist school of moviemakers had formed a gloom brigade that was ruining the foreign market for Italian films, the Italian government forced its state-subsidized movie industry to lower standards and raise skirts. Nevertheless, in Gold of Naples, Director De Sica has managed to say with a smile what he could not have said with a sneer. The four stories are variations on the same theme of human bondage that De Sica develops...
John F. Day, News Director of CBS, last night explained his alleged censorship of commentators Edward R. Murrow and Eric Severeid, stating that journalists must have "the will and intent to be objective...
...Censorship Battle...
...motion pictures. Two of the films, "Miss Julie" and "Desires," were barred from Sunday exhibition by the censors because of their controversial and/or questionable material, and it was on the basis of the ban of "Miss Julie" that the Brattle and its lawyers fought down the Massachusetts Sunday censorship law which was declared unconstitutional on July 6, 1955. (Brattle Films v. Otis M. Whitney...