Word: suppressant
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...find it disheartening that many Harvard students are so eager to suppress a dissenting opinion. And the only unfortunate thing I find in this whole business is that not everyone at this University can have Noel Ignatiev as a tutor. Megan K. Fritschel...
...unfortunate that anyone might suggest that Ignatiev is an anti-Semite. It is even more unfortunate that Ignatiev could not respond to such perceived charges in a rational manner that would foster thought in the Harvard community rather than suppress...
...A.C.L.U. opposes the Massachusetts initiative for much the same reason it argued against previous MacKinnon-Dworkin bills. Pornography no doubt causes harm, says Burt Neuborne, the union's former national legal director. But to suppress it, under First Amendment rules, "you have to show, in addition to the harm, that there is no other societal way of dealing with a problem than censorship. Here, the current bills fail...
...apparent that the Polish government's campaign to suppress Solidarity had failed. According to a report by Adrian Karatnycky, who helped organize the AFL-CIO's assistance to Solidarity, there were more than 400 underground periodicals appearing in Poland, some with a circulation that exceeded 30,000. Books and pamphlets challenging the authority of the communist government were printed by the thousands. Comic books for children recast Polish fables and legends, with Jaruzelski pictured as the villain, communism as the red dragon and Walesa as the heroic knight. In church basements and homes, millions of viewers watched documentary videos produced...
...rest of the play, we could not suppress the images of Jack Tripper tripping over the back of a couch, Felipe the vegetable slicer shouting Spanish curses and Janet hopping around the apartment in nothing but a longish football jersey. In short, we had mentally replaced Lillian Hellman's drama with Three's Company...