Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED." Thundered the ancient Augusta Chronicle: "Demagogues and dictators always make it one of their first goals to dissolve the free press, the better to hide their evil and their arrogance . . . This campaign against the newspapers is part of an overall plan to establish a political dictatorship...
...little confused by your reasoning. You stated that no group "has the right to use their personal judgments as a standard for what the public should or should not see. Such biased 'purification' of the public media in the guise of public protection has been identified with every dictatorship." The state censors are a group; a state censor, I assume, is as biased as anyone else; the state censors use their personal judgments as a standard for what the public should or should not see. It follows that we should abolish state censorship. But you seem to approve...
...seems to me that the argument should be concerned with the merits of the movie, rather than with Spellman's or anyone else's right to decide whether the board of censors are performing their function. To condemn him for doing so is simply to revert to the intellectual "dictatorship which your editorial is so anxious to avert. John Ziegler...
...years, more or less, pictures of Getulio Vargas hung on the walls of all public buildings, offices and stores in Brazil. The omnipresent portrait of the stocky little leader was the symbol of his "New State." When his dictatorship fell in 1945, the pictures came down...
...theatres and hoot at those who attend. But they do not have the right to use their personal judgments as a standard for deciding what the public should or should not see. Such biased "purification" of public media in the guise of public protection has been identified with every dictatorship. The city censors should remember this when, and if, "The Miracle" comes to Boston...