Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speaking at a symposium on "Man's Right to Knowledge" at Columbia University, the Very Rev. Francis J. Connell of the Catholic University of America defended Roman Catholic censorship and authority to decide what books are fit reading for Catholics. "Whatever advantages may accrue to one through the use of his personal freedom," he said, "they have no real value if they impede or imperil the attainment of his eternal destiny. Hence it is not an evil but a good when those in authority . . . regulate the use of liberty by those subject to their jurisdiction...
...blasted the idea in an editorial asking: 'Who should tell an American what he can read? Congress? The churches? . . . Our own grand jury? None of them, if you ask us.' The committee was not formed." ¶ In Miami, the News and the Herald so severely attacked a censorship board set up by the city commission that the board's sponsor finally "declared that it would not attempt to interfere with legitimate books...
...Texas, the state legislature killed three out of four bills restricting the "free circulation of books." The Vermont legislature, by a vote of 202 to 11, killed a proposal to set up a state censorship board on textbooks. The Pennsylvania legislature stopped a bill that would have banned certain types of magazines...
...Code was originally designed, in 1930, to clean up Hollywood, which in those days was making such hot-blooded pictures as Luring Lips and Flame of Youth. But in recent years, moviemakers aiming for pictures with an adult appeal, and others frankly bent on box-office excitement, have rejected censorship, turn ing the resultant publicity to their advantage. Samples...
...Moon .Is Blue (TIME, July 6) was denied the code seal because of its lighthearted approach to sex (the script contains such words as "virgin," "pregnant," "seduction," "mistress"). The picture is making a fine profit (see above), despite the fact that 1) local censorship groups have banned it from dozens of theaters around the U.S., and 2) it has been condemned by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, a censoring body of greater rigidity than the code and infinitely greater power over the box office...