Word: censorships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their Manhattan convention last week, U.S. newspaper publishers took up a growing problem: "creeping censorship," notably by Government departments. Said Charles F. McCahill, general manager of the Cleveland News and president of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association: "Many bureaucrats in government appear to prefer to function without knowledge of the people . . . We have had too many instances of efforts to suppress information...
...ably defends religious freedom and the fine qualities of individual Catholics, but offers no substantial arguments against charges of Catholic censorship. In most cases, he claims that although the church might condemn a movie, the individual Catholic is still free to see the picture or read any book he wants...
Spiritual Allergies. The actual working of the church's book censorship is not so inflexible as it sounds. Any Catholic with a "good reason" for reading a banned book can easily get permission from his bishop. Many U.S. bishops give temporary blanket permissions to students in their dioceses to read books necessary for their studies...
...Censorship has had many excuses, but the ones used most often usually have something to do with the protection of some dogma--everything from. The Faith to The American Way of Life. It is disappointing therefore to find that what was once a flexible concept, tolerance, has joined the censor's list of sacrosanct doctrines. We have no quibble with advocating tolerance, a trait which many Americans lack, but lately groups like the NAACP have shorn it of much of its richest meaning. Time was when tolerance meant permitting anyone to sample whatever was thrust before him, providing that this...
...long as those whom censorship harms remain unconcerned, this minority will grow bolder and more effective. And so long as pressure groups maintain the success they enjoy now, more and more organizations--formerly useful and respected parts of society like the NAACP--will go the way of the American Legion, using censorship as a tool to further their rigid doctrines...