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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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censor supervisor of morals, etc. XVI. — L.
cēnsor, f.
cēnsēre pronounce as an opinion, assess, judge.
Hence
censor vb. XIX. So
censure †judgement XIV; adverse judgement XVII. — (O)F. — L.
cēnsūra; see
-URE.
censure vb. XVI. — F.
censurer.
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New technologies erode Israeli army censor's grip
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/20/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...defense budget, and stories about the censor. The censor removed from this story a reference to...whether to submit stories and pictures to the censor. During the Persian Gulf War, however, censors were stationed around-the-clock at...
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Hitchcock and the Censors.(Alfred Hitchcock)
Magazine article from: World and I; 8/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...British Board of Film Censors scoured new motion pictures...understood. The chief British censor wore glasses with one...Hitchcock loved to kid the censors, yet he worked hard...screenplays and films censor-proof. He nonetheless...alleged clashes with the censors as fodder to promote...
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Confessions of an Irish censor: why Clark Gable, 'Casablanca' and Cliff got the chop
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 3/6/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...classics that incurred the censors' wrath. Such seemingly inoffensive...completely banned. Dublin's censors sliced through celluloid with...In one famous instance, censors in the staunchly Catholic country...developed," says the current censor, John Kelleher. "The old...
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Confessions of an Irish censor: why Brando, Clark Gable and 'Casablanca' got the chop
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/6/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...classics that incurred the censors' wrath. Such seemingly inoffensive...completely banned. Dublin's censors sliced through celluloid with...In one famous instance, censors in the staunchly Catholic country...developed," says the current censor, John Kelleher. "The old...
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 "Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)")
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Censor calls 'cut' on role as moral guardian of movies.
Magazine article from: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland); 1/7/2008; 661 words
; Censor calls 'cut' on role as moral guardian...four porn films last year THE IRISH Film Censor's Office will remove the censorship part...of its powers last year. The modern Film Censor has come a long way from sparing our blushes...
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Censors haunted by images
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 8/11/2002; ; 564 words
; FILM censors are turning to psychologists...banned movies. Chief censor Bill Hastings said all 14 censors had sought help. The...agrees. As chief film censor from 1991 to 1994, Wrightson...psychological help for today's censors.
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Mothers Censor Viewing Habits Of Children 14 And Younger, According To A Decision Analyst Study.
Business Wire; 5/3/2005; 691 words
; ...children aged 14 and younger regularly censor the television shows, online offerings...eight years old and younger regularly censor their children's television viewing...with children aged nine to 12 regularly censor television viewing, while 71 percent...
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The Manila Envelope, Please...; Philippine Censors Ban Another Award-Winning Movie
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/16/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...When we last left the Philippine movie censors, they were under siege for demanding...winner of three Oscars, which the censors effectively banned as "immoral." Both...Review and Classification Board, as the censors' panel is officially known, has remained...
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Censor Board explains fees.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 1/11/2008; 534 words
; ...11 (Dhaka Courier): The Bangladesh Film Censor Board has given its explanation about the censor fee for holding any international film festival...Bangladesh Censorship of Film Rules 1977, the censor certificate is necessary for public exhibition...
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Censor lifts veil on Syria air strike, but only partially
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 10/3/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Jerusalem Post 10-03-2007 Headline: Censor lifts veil on Syria air strike, but only...country on September 6, Israel's military censor began Tuesday to allow the local media...their report to foreign sources. The censor did not release any details for publication...
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censor
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
censor Public official of ancient Rome (443–22 bc). Two censors were elected for 18-month terms. Besides taking the census, they supervised public works, finance and morals, and filled senatorial vacancies.
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Censorship
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...Sciences the right to censor its publications, as...serve as preliminary censors. Alarmed by the French...the author, not the censor, responsible should...fell on the approving censor). A Foreign Censorship...right — through censors chosen from ecclesiastical...
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She Done Him Wrong
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...whose contempt for all proprieties and censors was so manifest), Mae West asserted...for a time so enormous that the movie censors waited to put her in her place, or rather the place the censors thought she ought to occupy. Eventually...
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Visconti, Luchino
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and he would remain a Marxist until his death. Censors and Church Denounced First Film Back in Italy...even though it ran into trouble with Fascist censors for its "obscenity." The censors objected to Visconti's steamy depiction of...
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Censorship, Press and Artistic
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...private citizens often practiced vigilante censor-ship by attacking alleged libelers...President Abraham Lincoln was a reluctant censor, closing Newspapers and jailing "copperhead...any mail having to do with sex. Postal censors employed the "Hicklin test," whereby...
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