Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Miller said that on college campuses, restrictive atmospheres pose more free expression problems than official censorship...
...thought about writing about the NEA because I'm on the council and we were having big fights at that time. I was on the anti-censorship side, the free speech side. There was one vote that was 15-1, and I was the one. There was a galloping prudery going around there at the time.. Yet many people were writing about that, and I'm glad I didn't try. I listed several other things and the only one I can remember is work, and they leapt for that...
...release in order to placate the then powerful Catholic Church's Legion of Decency, have been restored. But the important restoration is of a great film to contemporary consciousness. Indeed, comparing dimmed memories of the 1951 cut with this one, what strikes you is how resistant to censorship Tennessee Williams' work was. In the struggle between poetically yearning Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and brutally realistic Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) for the soul of her sister and his wife Stella (Kim Hunter), Williams personified what was for him the essential conflict of modern life. The newfound footage adds a touch...
...perhaps the most powerful reason they have for remaining silent about violence in news programming is that the solutions they have advocated for entertainment, if applied to news programming, would be shown up for what they amount to: paternalistic censorship. Changing the truth is obviously inimical to a free society: changing the content of fiction is a less clear, but just as menacing, threat...
...nation's college campuses, in the national media, in Hollywood and among the . . . 'cultural elite' " aimed at "those who dare to disagree with the latest ideological fad." If anyone has ever actually prevented Thomas from expressing his views, I would like to hear of it. Vigorous dissent is not censorship...