Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grandstand seats. Then we visited a college the training cadres, or for political training in general for those who wanted it. Again the students performed for us. As we were leaving a group of students came dancing out and bid us farewell, we joined them in dancing. (Yanko dance--forbidden by the Kuomintang--a peasant dance symbolizing harvesting.) We were also invited to various public demonstrations; one was about the necessity for serious health rules such as not spitting all over the place, where to go if ill, the need for X-rays, why one should go to maternity hospital...
Florida papers grumbled at the rebuke. But many other editors regarded it as a well-merited reminder that freedom of the press also carries the grave responsibility that it not be turned into license. Few newsmen want the British system, where the press is forbidden to print anything which might influence the trial in any way. But most would agree with Manhattan's World Telegram & Sun: "Freedom of the press is a precious right [which] too often has been abused at the expense of other precious rights equally entitled to the protection guaranteed by the Constitution...
...head of a free West Berlin art school. His Houses is as good as anything in the show, and gloomier than all the rest. Its figures, half flesh and half masonry, seem to be waiting rigid in the dark for an inevitable bomb. Hofer knows what bombs can do. Forbidden by the Nazis to exhibit his work, he kept on painting in Berlin when war came, saw his studio and some 300 pictures destroyed in an air raid. After the war, he set about painting the same pictures over again. Human beings, mostly sorrowful, remain the basic element...
...police and told all. But Frank didn't enjoy it. Because of the confusion, it took him hours to get home (where he found the windows broken and had two quick belts of whisky). As a result of his confusion, he was fined $250 for shooting in a forbidden zone. But worst of all was The Question, which he expected to hear until he died. "Frank," everyone asked, "Frank-what happened to the crow, Frank...
...Gatherings in the Yard are forbidden because they may interfere with classes and libraries...