Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young (37), he can write hardhitting prose, he is not ashamed to range himself on the side of God, custom and character, and he believes strongly in such old-fashioned virtues as duty and responsibility. His book of essays, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, ranges in subject matter from censorship to the ugliness of British welfare-state housing, but it has a sense of unity nevertheless. Kirk has a line and it is simply this: no political nostrum can cope with the unease of modern life. Modern man must keep what is best from the past and leaven it with...
...more freedom for Western correspondents are evident everywhere. Dozens of Western newsmen are now admitted on temporary visas, get more freedom than the 13 resident American correspondents and their colleagues from democratic nations. In some cases the visitors can even phone out stories from their hotel rooms with no censorship at all. Gradually, the clamps on the residents are also slackening. They are no longer restricted to Moscow, easily get permission to travel outside, though they are still barred from strategic areas and Siberian slave camps. Censors no longer kill all references to "corrective labor camps," government shortcomings and bureaucratic...
Still taboo: all speculation that the Red army is nudging into power, reports of the public pot-tossing and private lives of the Presidium bosses and their personal disagreements with one another. Says the Times's Welles Hangen: "Soviet censorship is becoming less severe, but it remains arbitrary and capricious." For example, when the ouster of Internal Affairs Minister Sergei Kruglov was revealed in a back-page item in Pravda, the Times bureau filed a story at 6 a.m. labeling Kruglov's successor as a Khrushchev man. It passed. That afternoon Hangen wrote a second-day story elaborating...
...announced that he was ending martial law, lifting press censorship, freeing 2,000 political prisoners. He spoke movingly of his own candidacy for President: "You will be asked your opinion of Gamal Abdel Nasser. I want to tell you something. Gamal Abdel Nasser will never deceive or mislead you. I shall work more for the interest of the weak than for the strong...
...found in their government -approved textbooks: they began organizing groups, holding meetings, making demands of the Minister of Education. Before the authorities knew what was happening, Prague students had drawn up several resolutions demanding "democratization of public life" and other far-reaching reforms-retrial of all political cases, less censorship, circulation of foreign newspapers, fewer dull party indoctrinations...