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- 251: The Life of Edward Albee
- ... We use art to define ourselves to ourselves. The most important arts are there to remind us who we are and what we can be." Albee thinks a "growing passivity in our society" is "self- censorship more insidious than anything imposed" by the right-wing politicians he so despises.
- 252: George Bernard Shaw: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
- ... innocent were also responsible for social evils (Morgan 108). This play was shocking in the ways it made the audience realize their own guilty conscience. "The manners of the day and the fact of theatrical censorship played into Shaw's hands by giving him grounds for suppressing the name of the profession Mrs. Warren had adopted (prostitution) and advanced in" (Morgan 108). Some men and women who saw this play came ...
- 253: Ray Bradbury
- ... The Martian Chronicles reflects some of the prevailing anxieties of America in the early atomic age of the 1950's: the fear of nuclear war, the longing for a simpler life, reactions against racism and censorship, and fear of foreign political powers. Another of Bradbury's best-known works, the novel Fahrenheit 451, was released in 1953 and is set in a future when the written word is forbidden. Resisting a ...
- 254: Benito Mussolini
- ... governments of others had failed to stop the spread of anarchy, King Victor Emmanuel III invited Mussolini to form a coalition government in 1922. With the support of the Liberals in parliament, he introduced strict censorship and altered the methods of election so that in 1925-1926 he was able to assume dictatorial powers and end all other political parties. By 1926 the facist leader had transformed Italy into a single ...
- 255: Howard Stern: The King of Mass Media or the Anti Christ?
- ... with the mental disability. After this show was over Stern technically could have had at least a hundred different sexual harassment charges filled against him. All this was aired on network TV with very little censorship and no mature adult (MA) rating at the top of the screen. Seventeen years ago Stern started this radio revolution by seeing how far he could go, how much he could say before something was ...
- 256: Catherine The Great: Empress Of All Russia
- ... the Volga Germans, and she founded new towns (Odessa, for example) and enterprises on the Black Sea. Herself a prolific writer, Catherine patronized arts and letters, permitted the establishment of private printing presses, and relaxed censorship rules. Under her guidance the University of Moscow and the Academy of Sciences became internationally recognized centers of learning; she also increased the number of state and private schools. As a result, the Russian nobility ...
- 257: Catherine II, Empress of Russia (Catherine the Great)
- ... the Volga Germans, and she founded new towns (Odessa, for example) and enterprises on the Black Sea. Herself a prolific writer, Catherine patronized arts and letters, permitted the establishment of private printing presses, and relaxed censorship rules. Under her guidance the University of Moscow and the Academy of Sciences became internationally recognized centers of learning; she also increased the number of state and private schools. As a result, the Russian nobility ...
- 258: John Adams
- ... did return to Europe because of fear. The Naturalization Act placed new stipulations on becoming a citizen and required fourteen years of residency. The last, and most offensive act, the Sedition Act, was purely a censorship tactic, which did result in several anti-federalists (Republicans) being indicted for printing criticisms against the government (Ferling, 1992). Adams never recommended any such measures, but he did sign the bill (Allison, 1966). This law ...
- 259: James Joyce
- ... garrison. No one who has any self respect stays in Ireland, but fleas afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation from an angry Jove." Ireland to him is the place where censorship and pain over old struggles that should be forgotten prevail over new ideas. He believes that his artistic abilities are being choked and that the bureaucracy of life in Ireland is too great for him ...
- 260: Evita Peron
- ... This was a period of political uncertainty in Argentina, yet few people were prepared for the military coup that took place in June 1943. Among the many measures instituted by the new government was the censorship of radio soap operas. Quickly adapting to the new environment, Evita approached the officer in charge of allocating airtime, Colonel Anibal Imbert. She seduced him, and Imbert approved a new project Evita had in mind ...
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