Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peak of rhetorical obviousness was scaled by the Vice President, who told his audience with an approximation of forcefulness that "the solution that you're developing must be a solution that works." Advocating neither censorship nor license--and perhaps mindful of a recent New Yorker piece that claimed President Clinton is worried that Gore will fumble the New Democrat legacy--the V.P. suggested that the industry find "a third way, an American way." No skin off anyone's nose there...
However, President Neil L. Rudenstine and members of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, which issued the invitation, defended the University's policy against censorship on the ground of political neutrality
This attitude is revealed in two other controversies: the Communications Decency Act (the Internet censorship law overturned by the Supreme Court in June) and encryption (a still unresolved conflict concerning government efforts to stop the spread of uncrackable computerized secret codes). In both these cases, unlike in the tax issue, the Webbies are basically in the right. But their indignant absolutism, their refusal to recognize any valid concern on the other side, is obnoxious. Government is right to be concerned that criminals and foreign enemies will be harder to spy on. And parents are right to be worried about some...
...these elements--the questioning of traditional Spanish social patriarchy, of the established Church, of conventional morals--are the elements that caused suspicion and silencing to fall upon the play's author, and caused the decades-long censorship of his works. It is valuable to have these ideas spoken aloud again. After all, that's one of the themes of Yerma--naming the unspeakable. As Yerma herself says: "There are things locked up behind the walls that can never change, because nobody hears them! But if they suddenly exploded, they would shake the world...
Being censored is a high privilege for any American writer, and we experience it approximately zero times in our career. Our great bugaboo is not censorship; it's getting remaindered, seeing our brave writing stacked on the bookstore floor, marked down to $1.89--and nobody buying it at that price either. Writers of today know that the nobility bestowed on Henry Miller and D.H. Lawrence will never be ours, that nobody bothers with repression anymore because everyone knows that to crack down on an artist is to promote him. Even Jesse Helms, not the swiftest intellect in the U.S. Senate...