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Spellman's demand for more stringent censorship laws is the most ominous part of the campaign. Controversial pictures are bound to offend the sensibilities of certain groups; those who are so offended are free to stay away and save their money. They even have the right to picket theatres and hoot at those who attend. But they do not have the right to use their personal judgments as a standard for deciding what the public should or should not see. Such biased "purification" of public media in the guise of public protection has been identified with every dictatorship. The city...
...evoked such clerical indignation that Louis XIV banned and banished it after its first performance. Cambridge audiences will be inclined to do neither. For "Tartuffe" is a vivacious comedy, likely to delight almost everyone and, now that the Enlightenment and the French Revolution have taken their tolls, to offend none...
...Protestant Fundamentalist Carl Mclntire's International Council of Churches (TIME, May 16, 1949) was in agreement. Use of the bomb "to defend human freedom, if necessary" would offend no moral principles, it declared...
Producer Jerry (Johnny Belinda) Wald and Scripter Ranald MacDougall have taken plenty of liberties, but that should not offend Hemingway fans who recognize that To Have and Have Not is one of the master's lesser works. The script reshuffles characters and incidents, creates new ones, even switches locales (from the Florida keys and Cuba to the California coast and Mexico). In reshaping the novel, it softens some cutting edges. But the story is still tough, violent and essentially true to the book's central figure: a rugged individualist, desperately down on his luck...
...mourn. Once in a while, they are sent back for a rest where a dry floor in a shattered building is a treasured luxury and each fighting robot becomes briefly an individual with opinions. Wilson's dialogue is good and true, peppered with obscenities that do not offend because they are used with a naturalness free of novelist's guile...