Word: indirectly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispatches from abroad: "Passed by Censor." That warning has now virtually vanished from the daily U.S. press, but censorship abroad has not. Most U.S. readers, when they stop to think about it at all, realize that the news from Russia is openly censored. Fewer may know that open or indirect censorship is smothering the news in nation after nation, including some which loudly insist that they alone have true "freedom of the press...
...Belgium last week, pro-government La Libre Belgique said that it did not advocate censorship. But it thought that the time had come to warn foreign correspondents that they had been "abusing Belgian hospitality" by their "distorted" coverage of the recent political campaign. In Britain and France, indirect efforts have been made to place official restraints on the press, but newspapers have resisted them. A year after the proposal by Britain's Royal Commission on the Press that a body of press and public members be set up to guard against journalistic "excesses" (TIME, July 11), Britain...
...solar system, is so small, dim and far away (3.7 billion miles) that astronomers have seen it only as a point of light like a star, have had to estimate its size by calculating the apparent effect of its gravitation upon the motion of Neptune. Measured in this indirect way, Pluto was thought by some to be almost as big as the earth. Last week Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory, having measured Pluto's diameter with the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain, announced that those estimates were probably wrong...
...protest such an extravagant and indirect expenditure to attract athletes to the University. If the money must be spent on athletics, let it be used to endow the HAA and take the burden of the annual deficit off the Faculty. Spend it on a hockey rink or resumption of the training table...
Eliot's indirect influence is wide and deep, but incalculable. He has shown two generations of poets how to write. He has shown that a man can be both'clever and religious. More interesting than Eliot's influence on others, however, is the influence of others (notably his Christian predecessors) on Eliot. One compelling reason why the audiences crowd his Cocktail Party is that they recognize it, in the sense that people always recognize a compelling restatement of the old and certain truths. They like Eliot for being clever, and at the same time clear; but what...