Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway. Their dramatic selection: the "Nighttown" portion of Joyce's phantasmagoric Ulysses, covering three hours in a Dublin bordello, most of it originally set down by Joyce in playscript form. Hard to read, harder to act, impossible to stage with its own wild flavor intact because of obvious censorship obstacles, "Nighttown" is bound to keep playgoers consulting not only programs but probably interpretive texts carried into the theater by the bushel and read by match-light. Sample of the brothel-born maunderings of Ulysses' protagonist Leopold Bloom: "I wanted then to have now concluded. Nightdress was never. Hence...
...Nuri proclaimed martial law, closed schools, clapped on heavy censorship and arrested about 100 political foes. Last week his Baghdad government announced that five opposition leaders had been court-martialed and sentenced for under mining public security. Kamel Chaderchy, former Minister of National Economy and Transport and head of the left-wing National Democratic Party, was sentenced to three years' hard labor. "Nuri has ridden out the storm," said U.S. Ambassador Waldemar John Gallman, and took off for a month's home leave...
Walter Kerr, drama critic on the New York Herald Tribune, has heard many such snap judgments. U.S. Roman Catholics, says Catholic Kerr in a sharp little book called Criticism and Censorship (Bruce; $2.75), are wide-open to the suspicion of being too Index-minded or too censorship-conscious. He writes: "It sometimes seems as though the struggle over censorship were a struggle between Catholicism and the rest of America...
...Kind of Ignorance. Alarmed at the Catholic tendency to judge a work of art according to prurient standards of "decency," says Kerr, professional critics tend to take an unreasoning position against any form of censorship; equally alarmed at this anarchic attitude, Catholics damn all critics as "artsakists" who are insensitive to sin and indifferent to its effects. Wise censorship simply means the exercise of prudence, says Kerr, but "the censor is not acting out of clear knowledge. He is acting in a kind of ignorance." And he should proceed with great caution for fear of destroying something good...
...earthier facts of life, as most U.S. moviegoers know, often whisper but seldom thunder from the silver screen. U.S. movie makers are bound by ground rules: the industry's own self-censorship code, first drafted in 1929. Last week the movie industry announced the code's first major overhaul in a quarter-century. Items: ¶J Sex. "Open-mouth kissing" has been banned. Childbirth may now be "treated within the careful limits of good taste." Abortion may be "suggested," but must be seriously "condemned." Seduction, rape, adultery and fornication "shall not be explicitly treated, nor . . . justified." Prostitutes...