Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic, he knew that he was forbidden, under pain of sin, to read books listed in the Vatican's Index Librorum Prohibitorum-the index of forbidden books. But like most Catholics (and non-Catholics) he had only a dim notion of how the church's book censorship operated and what, exactly, it forbade...
Meanwhile, George A. Kelly '53' president of the Advocate, announced that because Beecroft wished to impose certain censorship on the Advocate, if any future issues were printed at the Warren Press, the editors of the Advocate had no choice but to drop the Warren Press. "We don't intend to be censored by any printer," Kelly said in announcing the decision...
Last week Hilaly Pasha dejectedly stopped the clock: he postponed the May 18 elections. Muffled by censorship and martial law, the Wafd opposition called his action unconstitutional...
Socrates would have banished all the poets--writers, artists, what have you--from his society. And most political thinkers since, who haven't liked certain ideas, have merely suggested censorship of one sort or another. But this is the first time to our knowledge that anyone has suppressed ideas or works of art--if motion pictures can so be called--and avowedly the best available, on the ground that the writers were thought to hold undesirable ideas, even though these ideas apparently were in no way reflected in the work itself...
Parliament is suspended for the moment, and the huge Wafd majority in both Houses is powerless. The King's men can hold power for a while, buttressed by the army, the police, the curfew and tight press censorship. But the King's men haven't much time. The cry of "Down with the King!" is already being heard in student demonstrations...