Word: censor
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Born on the Fourth of July and Back to the Future? The home of TV heroes Magnum, Columbo, Jim Rockford, Sonny Crockett and even the Beaver? The company that runs the lodgings and jitneys in Yosemite Park? In Hollywood, some moviemakers wondered whether industrialists in Osaka would now censor Hollywood's ideas. Even the Bush Administration raised some objections to the deal...
...minutes earlier, a woman who walked by had said she agreed with our poster. There may be people who want to believe that everyone on campus has to agree with them, but evidently this is not true. Even if it were, they have no right to censor anyone's views, especially not those of a recognized student organization...
...collective fantasies center on mayhem, cruelty and violent death. Loving images of the human body -- especially of bodies seeking pleasure or expressing love -- inspire us with the urge to censor. Our preference is for warrior themes: the lone fighting man, bandoliers across his naked chest, mowing down lesser men in gusts of automatic-weapon fire. Only a real war seems to revive our interest in real events. With the Iraqi crisis, the networks report, ratings for news shows rose again -- even higher than they were for Panama...
...first Harvard undergraduate to commend the Organization for the Advancement of Sexual Minorities (ORGASM) for its crusade to "cover the campus with positive sex-positive imagery," and thereby show the world that Harvard is not going to be intimidated by a small cabal of ultra-conservative facists attempting to censor art that they deem "pornographic" or "immoral...
...Censure, but not censor. The Harvard community should make clear that it disapproves of offensive speech, while allowing such speech nonetheless...