Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...creeping Orwellian conformity is reassuring to those of us who are apprehensive of the Administration's plans to "bring us together." That Mr. Douglas prefers not to pattern his private life after the neo-Victorian vogue prevailing in Washington is understandable. That Mr. Douglas abhors crass censorship in the puritan tradition of Increase Mather is not only praiseworthy but also healthy...
...publish his poetry twelve years ago, Voznesensky has been sharply rebuked by Nikita Khrushchev and dismissed by conservative critics as a "formalist"-a derogatory term for a Soviet writer who allows himself to become preoccupied with experimentation rather than socialist realism. And he has frequently tussled with officialdom over censorship. His controversial stage revue, Look Out for Your Faces (TIME, March 9), an exuberant plea for individuality and self-expression, was ordered closed in February after only two performances. But his widespread popularity as the voice of a new Soviet generation has clearly survived undiminished. "His main quality...
Even so, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the law. Giving the recipient absolute power to decide what arouses him is perfectly proper, the court ruled, and neatly avoids censorship by the Government. Speaking for the court, Chief Justice Burger affirmed every citizen's right "to be let alone" and added: "A mailer's right to communicate must stop at the mailbox of an unreceptive addressee...
...case. Brennan's only allies are likely to be Justice Potter Stewart who concurred in Fanny on the basis t his own test for hard-core pornography ("I know it when I see it"), and Justice Hugo Black, who, like Douglas argues that the First Amendment prohibits all censorship. Justices John M. Harlan and Byron White have argued that states should be allowed greater latitude in enforcing their own standards of obscenity and Chief Justice Warren Burger agrees. The key votes could be those of Thurgood Marshall, who joined the court after Fanny Hill, and Harry Blackmun...
Similar civil libertarianism has led Douglas to oppose legal curbs on pornography-not, as he reiterated in a recent dissent, "because I relish 'obscenity' but because I think the First Amendment bars all kinds of censorship." The court, he believes, is not constitutionally required to take on the dilemmas of acting as a board of supercensors. Strictly interpreting the constitutional walls between church and state, Douglas concurred in the court's 1962 decision banning public school prayers, but would have gone farther and erased "In God We Trust" from coins, and ended the prayers that begin sessions...