Word: precensor
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Clandestine Journals. Mindful of the purges of the past, most Russian authors don their own fig leaf and precensor their works before submitting them to the state-owned publishing houses. The more courageous writers have been smuggling their works out to the West, or publishing them in a growing number of crudely printed journals that circulate sub rosa and have an avid readership. Young Leningrad and Moscow writers organized a semisecret association called SMOG (an acronym for youth, courage, image and depth). They not only contribute to such clandestine publications as Phoenix, Sphinx, Kolokol (Bell) and Tetradi (Notebooks), but have...
...from "prior restraint" -from any censorship that would affect them before they reach the public. But the court puts movies in a special category because of their graphic nature and "capacity for evil." Thus in 1961, the court narrowly upheld the power of Chicago's police commissioner to precensor all movies and check them for obscenity. That decision, however, failed to answer crucial questions: Are even nonobscene movies subject to precensorship? How long can censors delay decisions and thus make exhibitors knuckle under...
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