Word: nea
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Saying that a federal law prohibiting the funding of "obscene" art work constitutes censorship, a Harvard music professor resigned as co-chair of a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) music panel late last week...
Ditson Professor of Music Earl Kim said Friday that he "could not remain a part of the censorship process," although he said he supports the NEA and Chair John E. Frohnmayer's opposition to the Congressional restrictions...
...Helms amendment, adopted by Congress in October and named for Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), requires that all NEA-funded projects meet federal obscenity guidelines. The amendment prohibits funding for works that depict "sadomasochism, homoeroticism, the sexual exploitation of children or individuals engaged in sex acts, and which, when taken as a whole, do not have serious literary, artistic, political or scientific merit...