Word: suppressible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American jazz is everywhere; the party no longer even attempts to suppress it. "Moscow bands play a solid repertory of Western numbers. When the bands stop playing, they switch on tape recordings made from broadcasts of Music U.S.A., a Voice of America program." Latin American music-the samba, the mambo, the cha cha cha-is also popular, often under the guise of "native folk dances" of Cuba, Russia's Communist friend. Though Russia has its brawling young nihilists, the day of the stilyagi (zoot suiters) is gone; more often youths are dressed in conservative grey with pencil-thin trousers...
...stake is protecting these very constitutional freedoms, which are based on a society whose members are free to examine and criticize all institutions. These freedoms will survive only so long as we make it a stated policy of our educational system to stimulate the critical faculty, not suppress it because it sometimes may cause embarrassment...
While conceding Russia's megatonic output of scientists and engineers, U.S. educators are fond of a theory that Soviet schools suppress the humanities-subjects that supposedly thrive in U.S. schools. To "shatter that illusion" is a goal of English Professor Arther S. Trace Jr., member of the Russian study center at Cleveland's John Carroll University...
Hayden in currently free-lancing for a number of college newspapers, trying to report events which the national press has chosen to ignore or suppress. When Northern newspapers and weekly news magazines do get around to commenting on lynchings or riots such as those in Monroe, North Carolina, their information is so scanty that the average reader gets only a fuzzy and incomplete picture. Although the wire services generally send writers and photographers to survey the scene, the stories seldom find their way to the pages of newspapers outside the immediate area...
While agreeing with Rosset that "any law purporting to suppress a book is unconstitutional," London was nonetheless prepared to defend Tropic of Cancer against the Attorney General's charge...