Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Young seems about to win the Congresswoman's vote when she learns that he is truckling to a stuffy trustee (Howard St. John) who wants to suppress a controversial documentary film she has brought to the campus. After threatening to expose their 20-year-old escapade, Joan finally gets the film shown...
...care what an undergraduate thinks," Willis said. He emphasized that the F.B.I. is not a police bureau to suppress thought. If colleges want to give up information about students, he added, it's their privilege. He also commented that Yale has "been cooperative" with the Bureau...
...movie treats Fagin consistently as an individual (as Dickens did), never as a group symbol or scapegoat; it is obviously not anti-Semitic by design, and few are likely to find it anti-Semitic in effect. Attempts to suppress it, raising the issue of precensorship v. a free screen, brought many Jews to the picture's defense. The keepers of Hollywood's Production Code finally withdrew their ban last February, contented themselves with the gesture of cutting out ten minutes of Fagin's close-ups and profiles...
Thus, the advocates of force to suppress Communism in Asia, if they have their way, can no doubt destroy the Communist power holders in the various places. But they give us no indication of what would come afterward. Are we to take over and run Asia with American personnel? Can we find competent puppetal Do we seek a new colonialism? Or do we expect Western libertarian democracy to appear miraculously over night...
...Thou shalt suppress all forms of despotism and feudalism...