Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with suspicion on the central Government and army (present strength, about 100,000), which has been trying to disarm them as a prelude to election. Oxford-educated Mohamad Houssein Qashqai, one of the four Qashqai brothers who rule most of the southern tribesmen, thinks the army exists only to suppress tribesmen, fears ambitious officers may attempt a coup d'état. He said recently: "Since the days of Reza Shah,* every private thinks he can become a dictator." But the tribesmen concluded an uneasy truce with the central Government, surrendered a few beloved rifles as a token of good...
Under the guise of protecting the public from exposure to indecency, mayors, police commissioners, or decrepit vegetarians often suppress works of considerable artistic or educational merit. While some degree of censorship may be necessary in order to keep real filth from unsuspecting readers or playgoers, the censorship can most safely be conducted by a jury--the system preferred by such an expert in this field as Professor Chafee. Certainly a verdict rendered by twelve untainted citizens is likely to be less biased than one coming from some group that habitually deals in vice, and feels that it has a "mission...
Here in Los Angeles ... we have our choice of four newspapers. Two of these are venal and unreliable typical "chain reactionaries" which do not hesitate to suppress news contrary to their avowed policies. The third has been well described as a stand-patter. It is honest enough in its way, but its features and editorials more often than not retain a juvenile small-time flavor as if unable to forget the nostalgic picture of Los Angeles in a more placid past. Finally there is a tabloid which, despite a reasonably intelligent and liberal editorial policy, runs repeatedly to the blatant...
...stage. The British had a point, because several delegations were giving a beautiful imitation of Alphonse & Gaston-holding out their own bids & asks until they saw the other fellow's schedules. But, most awkwardly, the opening snarl reminded everybody of the ubiquitous bilateralism that Geneva was supposed to suppress-in favor of freer multilateral trade in a world atmosphere of multilateral confidence...
...writer is ... honestly concerned with the complex influences of sex and of class consciousness on a man's search for happiness. That problem is also of deep concern to the public. That public is entitled to the benefit of the writer's insight. ... To suppress what may appear bad in a book is also to suppress what is good therein...