Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some time the development of American cinema as responsible social criticism has been hampered by an outdated Movie Production Code which has recently been radically liberalized. This code is a voluntary intraindustry set-up designed to assuage self-appointed guardians of the national moral fiber and to squelch agitation for federal censorship. It is not aimed primarily at pornography or obscenity, but at insuring that the films will not conflict with moral principles of one sort or another. Crime doesn't pay, true love always wins out, infidelity and adultery must be punished, national honor, the fair name of American...
Even more objectionable than censorship on moral grounds are the various attempts to ban or obstruct films on the basis of the political beliefs or activities of the artists involved. Chief among these transgressions is the American Legion's picketing of Charlie Chaplin's films, or even of Born Yesterday because Judy Holliday once signed a front organization's petition...
...convinced that I have not honored any international commitments in regard to Kashmir, I will either honor them or resign my prime ministership." Unimpressed, Britain's Liberal Manchester Guardian retorted: "Mr. Nehru evidently does not recognize that he is throwing away much of India's moral authority...
...villains of the piece? Not at all. "This," the studio declares with unblinking self-gratulation, "is the story the Navy wanted told ... of the lengths to which [governmental] agencies will go to safeguard the sacred rights of individuals ... of an Assistant Secretary of the Navy who has the moral courage to discover and publicly admit his mistake...
...information lodged against Goldsmith was obtained from his personal enemies or from well-known cranks (the studio, boldly risking public approbation, calls them "overzealous patriots"). In the end Goldsmith, like Chasanow, wins back his job, along with full back pay. Whereupon the moviemakers timidly but firmly point the obvious moral: in time of ideological war, when it is perhaps essential for the populace to be armed with intellectual weapons, there are bound to be some casualties. There might be fewer if people would learn to distinguish between responsible sentries and vengeful snipers, between democracy's careful sergeants...