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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After calling my editor and telling him to go fornicate with himself, I deciphered why I was so upset. I have issues with censorship. In high school I wanted to recite a poem in a competition. It was a damn good poem ("The Colonel" by Carolyn Forche, if anyone's interested), and a poem that I thought might reach people in a school where poetry meant being taught Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" every two years. But this poem, otherwise well-behaved, had one word to which they objected; coincidentally, it was exactly the same...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Different Shades Of Red | 5/14/1997 | See Source »

...representative of all student arts anymore. It's a packaged event," he said. "It smacks of censorship...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Performer Charges Censorship | 5/7/1997 | See Source »

Alex S. Myers '00, the transgendered student around whom the U.C. debate was centered, decries the effect of political correctness. Myers says often the real threat in terms of hate speech is self-censorship--what people leave unsaid...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Throwing Off the Veil of Political Correctness | 4/5/1997 | See Source »

...claimed that there is already a lot of self-censorship, labeling it "bending for the wind before the wind arrives...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, | Title: Civil Liberties at Stake in Hong Kong, Lee Says | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...exhibition running through May 11 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is a fine example of a genre that often and easily goes wrong: the politically didactic art show. Its curator, Stephanie Barron, in 1991 created a survey named "Degenerate Art." Her subject then was the censorship, repression and persecution of modern artists in Hitler's Germany, culminating in the infamous "Entartete Kunst" ("Degenerate Art") show of 1937, in which hundreds of works by artists from Oskar Kokoschka to Henri Matisse were pilloried with insulting wall labels. "Exiles and Emigres" is the sequel to Barron's earlier exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: A CULTURAL GIFT FROM HITLER | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

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