Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What exactly is p.c.? By now it has degenerated into an all-purpose term of political abuse that means little more than "a view I disagree with." But it is meant to suggest a stifling orthodoxy, an intolerance of opposing views that verges on censorship, victimization chic and a stagy oversensitivity to robust remarks. All these elements have lately surfaced on the right, most noticeably in controversies over Clinton Administration nominees...
...Kassman cites another difference: The Service News had no editorial page. He attributes this to the students' "remarkable unanimity in support of the war effort. Although Kassman says there was no censorship, an antiwar statement was "out of the question...
...magazine that fires barbs at people in power -- though not at Rafsanjani. Editor Kiyoumars Saberi, a former Deputy Prime Minister, says his first issue in 1990 sold out all 40,000 copies in half an hour. Now he sells 140,000 and says, "We are pushing the limits" of censorship...
...book, and they are worth reading. Beyond the self-congratulation and mutual admiration, the letters provide insight into the two writers' conceptions of their work and the changing world around them. Also useful is Jong's quick summary of Miller's career--particularly the history of Miller's censorship and publication--although it relies heavily on much more interesting books on the same subject such as Edward de Grazia's Girls Lean Back Everywhere...
What makes this plan possible is that it would use Hollywood to change Hollywood. It would be a kind of self-censorship--the only kind of censorship that should be allowed. The government should never involve itself in outlawing movies, no matter how offensive; that would be worse than the problem itself. But the evils of government censorship should not deter citizens from speaking out against what they feel is hurting society...