| Description |
222 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
The Reference shelf ; v. 39, no. 3 |
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Reference shelf ; v. 39, no. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 214-222. |
| Contents |
pt.1. Censorship, the current debate: no.1. The current scene: a year's censorship harvest (Publishers' Weekly) -- no.2. Pornography; toward a new understanding: The fear of books / John Henry Merryman (Stanford Today) -- A new definition of obscenity / Howard Moody (Christianity and Crisis) -- Pornography or privacy / George Steiner (Encounter) -- Christianity and pornography / Joseph A. Schneiders (Crane Review) -- no.3. The case against pornography: On behalf of censors / George P. Elliott (Harper's Magazine) -- Dealing with the smut business / O.K. Armstrong (Reader's Digest) -- pt.2. The Supreme Court; more freedom or less?: no.1. The legal testing of obscenity / Ralph I. Lowenstein -- The Ginzburg majority opinion / William J. Brennan, Jr. -- Two dissents in the Ginzburg decision / Hugo L. Black and William O. Douglas -- A protestant view of the Ginzburg decisions (Christian Century) -- Confusion on obscenity; A Catholic view (America) -- A conservative view (National Review) -- A liberal view (New Republic) -- More freedom or less? / Jason Epstein (Atlantic Monthly) -- no.2. Fair trial versus a free press: A recent Supreme Court decision (Social Education) -- American Bar Association proposals / Fred P. Graham (New York Times) -- Views of the American Newspaper Publishers Association / Sidney E. Zion (New York Times) -- Views of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York / Sidney E. Zion (New York Times) -- American Civil Liberties Union's view -- no.3. Extending freedom of speech: The Julian Bond case (New York Times) -- pt.3. Censorship politics: A new law / John D. Pomfret (New York Times) -- A journalistic reaction -- The government as publisher; the USIA / Geoffrey Wolff (Washington Post Book Week) -- The government as publisher; a reply / Reed Harris (Washington Post) -- Government subsidies to publishers / Arthur Greenspan (New York Post) -- The press, the President and foreign policy / James Reston (Foreign Affairs) -- A footnote to history / Clifton Daniel (New York Times) -- Freedom and the Press (New York Times) -- pt.4. Censorship and intellectual freedom: The passing of the index of forbidden books (Christian Century) -- Let it be printed / Elizabeth Bartelme (Commonweal) -- A new movie code / Vincent Canby (New York Times) -- Self-censorship of TV (Newsweek) -- An attempt to rewrite history -- Writing history on approval / Irwin Karp (Saturday Review) -- The role of the public librarian / Kathleen Molz (American Scholar) -- Advice to librarians / David Dempsey (Saturday Review) -- pt.5. Censorship and education: The nature of academic freedom / Henry Steele Commager (Saturday Review) -- Academic freedom is free speech / Fred P. Graham (New York Times) -- The problem facing Catholic colleges / Philip Gleason (America) |
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Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Censorship -- United States.
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Freedom of the press -- United States.
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