Word: censorships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they could, paraded about the campus in this year's first manifestation of that modern collegiate custom, the panty raid. Net result: seven students suspended. ¶ In a sudden burst of energy, the Georgia Board of Education carried the white man's burden into a new field: censorship. In quick succession, the board 1) objected to a new Stephen Foster songbook because the lines "Oh. darkies, how my heart grows weary" had been changed to "Oh, brothers . . ."; 2) took under advisement the long-used text, America, Land of Freedom, because it devotes "only several little paragraphs...
Field Day for Gossip. Last week reporters and newspapers all over the U.S. were protesting against the Pentagon's new information policy. Asked about the blackout, Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty told newsmen: "The President has never believed in censorship of legitimate news . . . However, he has also always believed that there is no reason to make available to the enemy technical military secrets." Few newsmen quarreled with that view, but even fewer thought Wilson's directive was a means of accomplishing Ike's order. Wrote Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill: "What [Secretary Wilson] has done...
...contest was debated on a fictitious motion picture censorship case...
Despite wrenching translations and ironfisted Spanish censorship, the show retained a surprising amount of its pace and charm. Spain's top scenic designer, Sigfredo Burman, speckled the mythical isle of Bali Ha'i with miniature lights that blink by night, put ripples in the sea, installed clouds that moved swimmingly across pink-and-azure sky. and devised ocean waters to lap seductively at the sandy shores...
...over the water. He has tilted with eloquence and venom at many an Irish figure and foible in his plays and in the massive six-volume autobiography poured out over the past 15 years (TIME, Nov. 15). Ireland banned four of the volumes, but the Irish theater knows no censorship. Arch-Individualist O'Casey was free last week to speak his unconventional piece from the stage...