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  • Jutta sends letters that the school censor blacks out almost completely.†   (source)
  • Liberated from censorship and the need to be inventive, they proceeded cautiously.†   (source)
  • We found out two months ago and decided not to tell you; we even censored personal messages.†   (source)
  • My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts.†   (source)
  • That guy you met—the censor—his whole job is to track down people who are stupid enough to post these things—†   (source)
  • Ma said that all letters from Hawaii would be censored; soldiers would read his letter and cross out any information that could help the enemy.†   (source)
  • There is no point translating that word as it would have to be censored.†   (source)
  • This censor only lets through a small amount, and often what does come through is only symbolic.†   (source)
  • Ruth did not want to censor her writing, so she started recording it in a combination of pig Latin, Spanish, and multisyllabic words that she knew her mother would not understand.†   (source)
  • Lawrence, for instance, had numerous novels suppressed and undertook a monumental battle with the British censors.†   (source)
  • The letter had been opened by the censors—held by them, too: the postmark was over a week old.†   (source)
  • According to the American Library Association, it is one of the 100 most censored books in the United States.†   (source)
  • The Postcards I'm imposing a severe censorship on myself Several days went by without any word from the philosophy teacher.†   (source)
  • His beard was so heavy that his features were a blur to me, as if someone had censored them from the film.†   (source)
  • That way we could say what we wanted instead of what the censors said we could say.†   (source)
  • In other words, censored books.†   (source)
  • The column that was back first was top dog in the camp that evening--the mess hall was theirs, they were first in line to get their packages, first at the private kitchen, first at the C.E.D. to pick up letters or hand in their own to be censored, first at the dispensary, the barber's, the baths--first everywhere.†   (source)
  • While he was careful to avoid making a nuisance of his views, to adopt outside his realm an externally un-censoring manner, he enforced them within his family and among the employees at River Valley Farm.†   (source)
  • During the first few months, I received one letter from Winnie, but it was so heavily censored that not much more than the salutation was left.†   (source)
  • Sister Platte was frustrated by the BOP's effective censorship of her visiting list—international peace figures had tried to gain permission to visit her and had been denied.†   (source)
  • Censored.†   (source)
  • Exact numbers are impossible to pin down in such a secretive endeavor, but one of the rare reports to appear in the heavily censored Saudi press hints at the massive change shrewdly invested petroleum profits are having on Pakistan's most impoverished students.†   (source)
  • Then censors would scrutinize it; and finally the "pool" chief would look at each print to decide which was worth transmitting back to the United States via radiophoto, and which to discard.†   (source)
  • We have to build a wall of censorship around her: no newspapers, no radio, no visitors—nothing!†   (source)
  • Catch-22 required that each censored letter bear the censoring officer's name.†   (source)
  • I didn't censor information for her benefit; surely, Thomas Stone was no longer the threat he'd once been to her when we were minors.†   (source)
  • "But," he smiled, "they send along an attendant, a kind of censor, to see that the therapy fails."†   (source)
  • You're the darling of the royalists, my unprofound fellow, and you'd force the average citizen to live in a nation where privacy is obsolete, free thought suspended by censorship, the rich get richer, and for the poorest among us the beginnings of potential life itself may well have to be abandoned in order to survive.†   (source)
  • Censorship kept Call from revealing very much about where he was or what was going on, but in what he didn't say there was enough to make my flesh crawl.†   (source)
  • My friend was censoring his creativity in order to fit the imposed criteria.†   (source)
  • If you breathe the word 'censorship' now, they'll all scream bloody murder.†   (source)
  • You're censoring the facts?" asked Miss Kraken incredulously.†   (source)
  • If we're going to have censorship, I think we ought to have real censorship, not the namby-pamby kind.†   (source)
  • Because of censorship it had to be published in Switzerland.†   (source)
  • They give you the paper and pen, and they don't censor.†   (source)
  • The Quaker agent in Cambridge, knowing, as all such people did, that he was watched constantly, and that his mail might be censored, sent a message to William Still in Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • No censoring voices?†   (source)
  • The Pennsylvania Council of Censors journals have more specifics.†   (source)
  • Censorship.†   (source)
  • Yet she judiciously classified the personal intelligence that flowed under her plump fingers, and maintained a prudent censorship over her tongue.†   (source)
  • They might have had some natural cause, or they might be due to deliberate censorship by the Overlords.†   (source)
  • Censorship, I told him, 'fink,' I muttered, and fled.†   (source)
  • There was the censorship that people pretended didn't exist, in spite of the celebrated decree of 1922.†   (source)
  • But evidently Pavel took an even gloomier view than the censor who urged Voskoboinikov to moderate his passionate views on the agrarian problem.†   (source)
  • Sar(censored)castic retort.†   (source)
  • Newspapers were censored and some were closed down, for security reasons they said.†   (source)
  • Juvenile enough, presumably, to make it past the censor.†   (source)
  • Ender didn't know about the censorship, but he did know that running to the cameras would be wrong.†   (source)
  • Censorship, repression and suppression simply don't work.†   (source)
  • If only she could have set aside all censorship, she might have slid into a waking dream.†   (source)
  • I'm imposing a severe censorship on myself.†   (source)
  • It frustrated Ender that Maser Rackham's victory was so obviously censored.†   (source)
  • There is too much censorship of reality in the classroom.†   (source)
  • These were not pieced together from the censored public videos, but whole and continuous.†   (source)
  • Was the whole work censored by the Society for the Protection of Men?†   (source)
  • That is because even when we sleep, censorship is at work on what we will permit ourselves.†   (source)
  • But he had "imposed a severe censorship on himself."†   (source)
  • At first, this took the form of a campaign against censorship—for the freedom of the press.†   (source)
  • "Is some kind of censorship being exercised on these premises?" he asked.†   (source)
  • When he was feeling good, free of self-censor, he tried for coherence with Kit.†   (source)
  • The letters we wrote were censored as well; they were often as cut up as the letters we received.†   (source)
  • We are supposed to have no culture, and so they assign themselves the right to censor.†   (source)
  • All cards and letters are censored—even to the Nisei camps.†   (source)
  • I just put a censor's okay on his letter without even reading it.†   (source)
  • If it was just a club they would not censor history books.†   (source)
  • On page 7 she says she is sorry that her letter must be censored.†   (source)
  • Some facts about the Council of Censors will illustrate my reasoning about the current discussion.†   (source)
  • Censorship is un-American, but the censor keeps telling you it's the American way.†   (source)
  • But you aren't authorized to censor letters, are you?†   (source)
  • Several of the island's censors would compile a brief news digest from other daily radio bulletins.†   (source)
  • There's so much veiling and soft-pedaling because everything is censored by the RCMP.†   (source)
  • 'But I'm not authorized to censor letters either.†   (source)
  • Like my friend applying for the fellowship, I was censored before I got to first base.†   (source)
  • Catch-22 required that each censored letter bear the censoring officer's name.†   (source)
  • Censorship is un-American, but the censor keeps telling you it's the American way.†   (source)
  • The 1990 attack on the NEA by fundamentalist censors has created a national furor and discussion.†   (source)
  • Censorship imposes itself in my path of knowledge, and that activity can be justified by no one.†   (source)
  • As I have suggested, in some cases, it is a thinly veiled censorship.†   (source)
  • What are the methods of commission or omission that censorship employs?†   (source)
  • In other cases, the censoring has been direct and brutal.†   (source)
  • Censorship is fear clothed in the guise of misguided righteousness.†   (source)
  • Censorship is a tool of the powerful who don't want to share their power.†   (source)
  • These censors are at work in all areas of our daily lives.†   (source)
  • It has implications that we may call self-imposed censorship.†   (source)
  • That is what the censors who burned Bless Ale, Ultima were telling me.†   (source)
  • The censors assumed the right to keep these creative works away from all of us.†   (source)
  • Why did the censors burn Bless Me, Ultima?†   (source)
  • Censors, I have concluded, are afraid of our liberation.†   (source)
  • Salman Rushdie, one of the most censored authors of our time, talked about the importance of books.†   (source)
  • There was no mail to censor as the ship was in Cherenkov drive.†   (source)
  • PTAs, movie censorship, disaster relief—the Empire is ponderously unhelpful.†   (source)
  • "I don't think it would have occurred to him to try to censor you.†   (source)
  • (censored) Having had the last word, Powell got to his feet and left the picture gallery.†   (source)
  • Especially—though he doesn't say this—if she's going to censor the clairvoyance of his several glasses of rum.†   (source)
  • Given the hardships of the 1930s, the Count supposed he could understand why Shalamov (or his superiors) had insisted upon this little bit of censorship—having presumed that Chekhov's observation could only lead to feelings of discontent or ill will.†   (source)
  • In the Victorian age, sex was nearly impossible to find in polite literature, due to rigid censorship both official and self-imposed.†   (source)
  • "Great minds," I say, her laughter getting lost for a second in the fuzz that blasts through the receiver, as a censor somewhere deep in Portland tunes into our conversation momentarily.†   (source)
  • At the bottom of the card there was a P.S. and then a line of text that had been blacked out by the censors.†   (source)
  • Although news from Barcelona is heavily censored, word has got through to our correspondent in Paris of clashes between rival Republican factions in that city.†   (source)
  • The bushier the women were, the unhappier the boy; the more the women's nipples were struck with the censor's slash, the more miserable the boarder.†   (source)
  • For fear of his psychiatrist who was also their censor, they could never be sensual, or even emotional.†   (source)
  • Her mother had never expressed vanity about her looks, but with the dementia, the modesty censors must not have been working.†   (source)
  • "NICE GUYS ARE THE TOUGHEST TO GET RID OF," Owen wrote for The Grave; but even Mr. Early was smart enough to censor that.†   (source)
  • Sometimes entire sentences had been cut out with a razor blade by the censors and the letters did not make any sense.†   (source)
  • Her letters consist mostly of banalities—we are busy; Frau Elena says hello—or else arrive in his bunkroom so full of censor marks that their meaning has disintegrated.†   (source)
  • He's a censor, actually."†   (source)
  • And it occurred to her now that GaoLing might have also censored the parts that dealt with her own secrets, her marriage to the opium addict, for instance.†   (source)
  • But even with Miller, the sex is on one level symbolic action claiming for the individual freedom from convention and for the writer freedom from censorship.†   (source)
  • Constance Chatterley and her lover, Mellors, really broke ground in plainly shown and plainspoken sex, although the novel's obscenity trial, effectively ending censorship in the United States, did not take place until 1959.†   (source)
  • The point is, my grandmother was never a censor; she simply believed that Owen and I should go to bed at a "decent" hour.†   (source)
  • Language, behavior, ideas, ways of expression and authentic imaginations—as well as books—have been censored.†   (source)
  • This time we can't censor your letter.†   (source)
  • He replaced Mr. Early as the faculty adviser to The Grave; Mr. White made himself the faculty adviser—and so The Voice was presented with a more adversarial censor than Owen had ever faced in Mr. Early.†   (source)
  • His work has plenty of mentions of sexual relations, some oblique, some explicit, and in his last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), the great forbidden reading-fruit of everyone's youth, he pushes right past the limits of censorship of his time.†   (source)
  • And I thank all the teachers, librarians, parents, students, law enforcement officers, judges, booksellers, writers, rehab counselors and community activists who have ensured my books remain on the shelves, in the hands of young people, and have also helped in fighting the censorship attempts, allowing new generations to enjoy and learn from this story.†   (source)
  • Joyce's Ulysses was censored, banned, and confiscated in both the United Kingdom and the United States, in part for its sexual references (lots of sex thought, even if the only sex act shown in it is onanistic).†   (source)
  • And the women's sex parts were often blurred by pubic hair—some of them had astonishingly more pubic hair than either Owen or I thought was possible—and their nipples were blocked from view by the censor's black slashes.†   (source)
  • But if they called for him to be brought home, the words were censored from the videos and no one heard the plea.†   (source)
  • Lawrence knows he won't write many more novels, he's coughing up his lungs, and he's pouring his life into this dirty story that's so far beyond anything he's already written—and had censored—that he knows, even if he pretends not to, that this thing will never have a wide readership in his lifetime.†   (source)
  • The issue of Owen being granted this privilege was the subject of a special faculty meeting where tempers flared; Dan said there was a movement to replace the faculty adviser to The Grave—there were those who said that the "pregnancy humor" in Owen's column about the Senior Dance should not have escaped the adviser's censorship.†   (source)
  • He didn't know that it would be censored out of the tape if he did, for the boys soaring out to Battle School were all supposed to be heroes.†   (source)
  • He saw immediately a crucial difference between Gravesend, the town, and Gravesend, the academy: the town paper, The Gravesend News-Letter, reported all the news that was decent and believed that all things decent were important; the school newspaper, which was called The Grave, reported every indecency that could escape the censorship of the paper's faculty adviser and believed that all things decent were boring.†   (source)
  • Thought-mutants occur in the consciousness one after the other, at least if we refrain from censoring ourselves too much.†   (source)
  • For an artist too it can be necessary to break the censorship of the conscious and let words and images have free play.†   (source)
  • They have, though; the words and the ideas have lain 'latent' in their consciousness, but now, when all caution and all censorship have let go, they are surfacing.†   (source)
  • And although this censorship, or repression mechanism, is considerably weaker when we are asleep than when we are awake, it is still strong enough to cause our dreams to distort the wishes we cannot acknowledge.†   (source)
  • And with no time to know it, but knowing it, seizing it with his senses past the censorship of his mind, he was seeing a black silhouette with red rays shooting from behind its shoulders, its elbows, its angular curves, the red rays circling through steam like the long needles of spotlights, following the movements of a swift, expert, confident being whom he had never seen before except in evening clothes under the lights of ballrooms.†   (source)
  • Alert Four was emergency communication doctrine, intended to slap censorship on news to Terra without arousing suspicion.†   (source)
  • Censorship, which at first covered only the mass media, was soon extended to textbooks, song lyrics, movie scripts, and even private conversation.†   (source)
  • That night, people all around the country saw on their television screens the leader of the opposition tied to a table and foaming at the mouth with rage, bellowing such vile curse words that the tape had to be censored.†   (source)
  • She is glad it passes through a censor.†   (source)
  • This we do from necessity; censorship will be lifted as quickly as possible—we hate it as much as you do.†   (source)
  • However, several problems counterbalance this advantage: If a legislature is determined to achieve an unconstitutional objective, they will not stop because their conduct might be censored in ten, fifteen, or twenty years.†   (source)
  • Your mind then became a fixed jury who takes orders from a secret underworld, whose verdict distorts the evidence to fit an absolute it dares not touch-and a censored reality is the result, a splintered reality where the bits you chose to see are floating among the chasms of those you didn't, held together by that embalming fluid of the mind which is an emotion exempted from thought.†   (source)
  • Often, Winnie's visits were overseen by Warrant Officer James Gregory, who had been a censor on Robben Island.†   (source)
  • Perhaps still better to put it out over a clandestine beam attributed to the Terran scientists still with us while our official channels display the classic stigmata of tight censorship.†   (source)
  • He looked the other way when his son, taking advantage of the patron's, injury, broke the grip of censorship and introduced into Tres Marias the forbidden pamphlets of the unionists, the teacher's political newspapers, and the strange biblical interpretations of the Spanish priest.†   (source)
  • Broke up our families, told us who we could see, where we could live, what we could do, what time we could leave our houses, censored our letters, exiled us for no crime.†   (source)
  • When the Pennsylvania Council of Censors met in 1783 and 1784, one objective was to ask if "the constitution had been violated, and whether the legislative and executive branches had encroached on each other."†   (source)
  • Subconsciously she has written it with the censor in mind, hoping to convey the idea that the Smith family is really a well-ordered unit: "Please do not judge all by Perry?†   (source)
  • The Council of Censors in Pennsylvania assembled in 1783 and 1784 "to inquire whether the constitution had been preserved inviolate in every part; and whether the legislative and executive branches of government had performed their duty as guardians of the people, or assumed to themselves, or exercised, other or greater powers than they are entitled to by the constitution."†   (source)
  • The censorship delayed the delivery of mail because warders, some of whom were not proficient in English, might take as long as a month to censor a letter.†   (source)
  • Presently we relaxed as news up from Earthside showed nothing, they seemed to accept censored transmissions without suspicion, and private and commercial traffic and Authority's transmissions all seemed routine.†   (source)
  • I am sorry that this must be censored [by the prison authorities], & I sincerely hope this letter is not detrimental towards your eventual release but I feel you should know & realize what terrible hurt you have done.†   (source)
  • Prof had started with control of news to and from Earthside, leaving to Mike censorship and faking of news until we could get around to what to tell Terra, and had added sub-phase "M" which cut off Complex from rest of Luna, and with it Richardson Observatory and associated laboratories—Pierce Radioscope, Selenophysical Station, and so forth.†   (source)
  • A request for a book with the word red in the title, even if it was Little Red Riding Hood, would be rejected by the censors.†   (source)
  • All the officer patients in the ward were forced to censor letters written by all the enlisted-men patients, who were kept in residence in wards of their own.†   (source)
  • For a little while in the morning he had to censor letters, but he was free after that to spend the rest of each day lying around idly with a clear conscience.†   (source)
  • Yet prison censors went through each of those newspapers every day with scissors, clipping articles that they deemed unsafe for us to see.†   (source)
  • They all knew he was a C.I.D. man because he kept inquiring about an officer named Irving or Washington and because after his first day there he wouldn't censor letters.†   (source)
  • We were soon able to supplement these papers with copies of the Star, the Rand Daily Mail, and the Sunday Times, but these papers were even more heavily censored.†   (source)
  • But because of the vagaries of the mail system, the remoteness of the island, and the often deliberate slowness of the censors, the book would reach you after the date that it needed to be returned.†   (source)
  • He's looking for someone up in the hospital who's been signing Washington Irving's name to the letters he's been censoring.†   (source)
  • Every time he tries to report you to his superiors, somebody up at the hospital censors out the details.†   (source)
  • The island's censors would black out the offending passages in ink, but they later changed this when they realized wecould wash away the ink and see what was underneath.†   (source)
  • The censorship delayed the delivery of mail because warders, some of whom were not proficient in English, might take as long as a month to censor a letter.†   (source)
  • Censoring the envelopes had serious repercussions, produced a ripple of anxiety on some ethereal military echelon that floated a C.I.D. man back into the ward posing as a patient.†   (source)
  • Major Major looked with a blank expression at copies of personal correspondence from the hospital on which the censoring officer had written 'Washington Irving' or 'Irving Washington.'†   (source)
  • Censorship increased.†   (source)
  • His mind germinated feverishly with challenging new ideas for sparking the great spiritual revival of which he dreamed himself the architect — box lunches, church socials, form letters to the families of men killed and injured in combat, censorship, Bingo.†   (source)
  • I censored it in your name.†   (source)
  • And looking very superior, he tossed down on the table a photostatic copy of a piece of V mail in which everything but the salutation 'Dear Mary' had been blocked out and on which the censoring officer had written, 'I long for you tragically.†   (source)
  • 'Chaplain,' he announced with magisterial rigidity, 'we charge you formally with being Washington Irving and taking capricious and unlicensed liberties in censoring the letters of officers and enlisted men.†   (source)
  • Many of my generation still recall and recount the incidents of censorship on the playgrounds of the schools when we were told to speak only English.†   (source)
  • This type of censorship was focused against the National Endowment for the Arts in the halls of Congress in 1990.†   (source)
  • Using a technique censors often use, they zoomed in on one detail of the novel, the so-called bad words in Spanish, and they used that excuse.†   (source)
  • Cultural censorship has been with us for a long time, and my friend's story suggests it is with us today.†   (source)
  • The censors of the far right attacked two or three funded projects because they objected to the content of the works.†   (source)
  • The English-Only movement continued the old censorship we had felt on the school playgrounds, but now the game had moved into the state legislatures.†   (source)
  • We struggled to change the way the world looks at Mexican Americans by reflecting our reality in literature, and many eagerly sought our works, but the iron curtain of censorship was still there.†   (source)
  • Censorship has affected me directly, and I have formed some ideas on this insidious activity, but fist, I want to give an example of censorship which recently affected a friend of mine.†   (source)
  • Multiculturalism is a reality in this country, and we will get beyond fear and censorship only when we know more about each other, not when we know less.†   (source)
  • But as Chicanos who belong to a culture still existing on themargin of the mainstream society, and as a community that has struggled to be heard in this country, censorship is not new to us.†   (source)
  • Where does censorship begin?†   (source)
  • It uses censorship as a tool.†   (source)
  • To get away from wars and censorship and statism and conscription and government control of this and that, of art and science!†   (source)
  • Rufo shouted an allegation about Igli's personal habits that even Olympia Press would censor, then dared Igli to race him, offering an obscene improbability as a wager.†   (source)
  • In the bed opposite Zhivago's, Galiullin was looking at the newspapers that had just arrived and exclaiming indignantly at the blanks left by the censorship.†   (source)
  • He's the most junior officer and has the extra jobs — athletics officer, mail censor, referee for competitions, school officer, correspondence courses officer, prosecutor courts-martial, treasurer of the welfare mutual loan fund, custodian of registered publications, stores officer, troopers' mess officer, et cetera ad endless nauseam.†   (source)
  • She lifted her bright, fiercely blue eyes and added, as if repeating one of the Commandments: "Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness."†   (source)
  • Sar(censored)donic reply.†   (source)
  • The magazines about African affairs —even the semi-bogus, subsidized ones from Europe—and the newspapers, though censored, had spread new ideas, knowledge, new attitudes.†   (source)
  • Nikolai Nikolaievich had with him the proofs of Voskoboini-kov's book on the land question; the publisher had asked the author to revise it in view of the increasingly strict censorship.†   (source)
  • He was editor, reporter, censor, factotum of the paper.†   (source)
  • This was no way to think; but who censored his thinking?†   (source)
  • Don't write anything that will bother the censor.†   (source)
  • Mr. Paul Blanshard, speaking of army censorship in The Right to Read (1955) says, "A few pro-Axis foreign-language magazines had been banned, as well as three books, including Dalton Trumbo's pacifist novel Johnny Get Your Gun, produced during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact.†   (source)
  • A white censor was standing over me and, like dreams forming a curtain for the safety of sleep, so did my lies form a screen of safety for my living moments.†   (source)
  • When the priest rushed through the streets carrying his precious burden into a sickroom either Esteban or Manuel was to be seen striding behind him, swinging a censor.†   (source)
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