Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggest that the Navy commission Gypsy Rose Lee a commander and put her in charge of stripping ships for action. The Army should commission Hedda Hopper a lieutenant colonel and place her in charge of Army censorship...
...boys fight a losing battle for the possession of their school; the rugby goals are replaced by lacrosse goals, the boys sleep in the gym, the headmaster in an obscure bathtub. Censorship is imposed on all outgoing mail ("...and mummy, the mistresses are sharing the masters' bedrooms...
...produced truly educated men. Education is not possible where freedom does not exist. When the Faculty Committee realizes this, it will withdraw its new rules and accept the Council's recommendations. It will let the College seek experience and knowledge the only way they can be sought: without censorship, without pressure, and without interference. That has been and should be the first lesson of a Harvard education...
...front page editorial reply, the Daily Herald raised the question of censorship and stated that unless the decision were reversed "we can never criticize, nor can we discuss any controversial question without fear, real or imaginary, that the next day will bring harsh retaliation from the Dean's Office...
...been identified with every dictatorship." The state censors are a group; a state censor, I assume, is as biased as anyone else; the state censors use their personal judgments as a standard for what the public should or should not see. It follows that we should abolish state censorship. But you seem to approve of the New York Supreme Court's decision that "the right to determine whether a picture is indecent, immoral or sacrilegious is vested solely in the Board of Education" (the authorized censors in New York). In fact, the rulings of the censorship board should apparently...