Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lost the passion for experimentation that distinguished it during the '20s. The literature of our country appears today to all the world as infinitely poorer, more flat and worthless than it is in reality, than it would look if it were not being restricted. I propose that the congress should demand and obtain the abolition of all censorship-open or concealed-of artistic works...
...without having any opportunity to reply. What is more, they have been exposed to violence and physical persecution. The board of the Writers' Union in cowardly fashion abandoned to their misfortune those whom persecution finally condemned to exile, to the concentration camp, to death. After the 20th Party Congress (1956) we learned that there were more than 600 writers who were guilty of no crime and whom the union obediently left to their fate in the prisons and the camps. But the list is still longer. Our eyes have not seen, and never will...
...strapped not only for limousines but for the funds to hire an adequate staff. It is smothered in routine business and has little time for policing the industry-even if it wanted to. Moreover, the commission is subject to pressure from the President, who appoints its members, and from Congress, which appropriates its budget. Both the Administration and the Congressmen have many friends in the broadcasting business. Some members of Congress are in it themselves...
...that, the FCC does have considerable power, however reluctant it is to wield it. A quasi-judicial body created by Congress, the commission issues and can revoke the licenses of all broadcasters. It can bring pressure against a station that does not grant equal time to political candidates. Under its "fairness doctrine," it tries generally to make sure that a station's programs provide a "broad spectrum of views." It can punish with fines or get a "cease and desist" order if a station does not comply with the specific rules...
Last week the federal court system moved to take jury duty out of the hands of the privileged few. The courts were obeying the Federal Jury Selection Act passed by Congress last March, which called on U.S. District Courts to submit sweeping changes by Sept. 23. The new rules provide a method of random selection from lists of registered voters, guarantee that jurors will be chosen from each county in proportion to its population. In the South, where many thousands of Negroes have registered in recent years, there will now be a vastly increased chance for them to serve...