CENSOR

sĕnˈsər, title of two magistrates of ancient Rome (from c.443 b.c. to the time of Domitian). They took the census (by which they assessed taxation, voting, and military service) and supervised public behavior. They also had charge of public works and filled vacancies among the senators and knights.

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Censors in the Classroom: The Mind Benders
Book by Edward B. Jenkinson; Southern Illinois University Press, 1979
Subjects: Textbooks--United States--Censorship
...school libraries. But each censor has his or her own reasons...programs. A characteristic of the censors is that they are absolutely...activity, points out: "The censor, however good and decent and...or her own rightness. The censor seems certain while the teacher...
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The Diary of a Russian Censor
Book by Helen Saltz Jacobson, A. Nikitenko; University of Massachusetts Press, 1975
Subjects: Censorship--Soviet Union, Nikitenko, A--(Aleksandr)--1804 Or 5-1877--Biography, Soviet Union--Intellectual Life
...Krylov, A. L. prof., St. Petersburg censor , 55, 64 , 65 , 82, 114 Krylov, I...102 Krylov, N. I. prof., Moscow censor , 100 - 101 Kudryavtsev, P. N. prof...61 , 249 Kutorga, S. S. zoologist, censor , 72 , 87 - 90 , 97 , 104 , 111, 280...
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Cato the Censor
Book by Alan E. Astin; Clarendon Press, 1978
Subjects: Cato, Marcus Porcius--234-149 B.C, Orators--Rome--Biography, Statesmen--Rome--Biography
...functions, and limitations of the office of censor. Seen in those terms Cato emerges as...to a worse condition he was appointed censor and by useful guidance and wise practices...be further evidence both that Cato as censor did give expression to a strong body of...
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The Silent Masters: Latin Literature and Its Censors in the High Middle Ages
Book by Peter Godman; Princeton University Press, 2000
Subjects: Censorship--Europe--History--To 1500, Humanists--Europe, Latin Literature, Medieval And Modern--Censorship, Latin Literature, Medieval And Modern--History And Criticism
...III pope , 94 . See also Hyacinth Boboni censor, 27 , 29 , 31 , 59 60, 91 92, 111...131 , 255 ; voluntary 26 . See also censor; censura censura, 26 , 28 , 31 , 228...271 , 335 ; repressiva, 335 . See also censor; censorship Chalcedon, council of...
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Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry since 1967
Book by Karen Van Dyck; Cornell University Press, 1998
Subjects: Greece--Politics And Government--1967-1974, Greece--Politics And Government--1974-, Greek Poetry, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism, Greek Poetry, Modern--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--Greece--History--20th Century, Women In Literature, Women--Greece--Athens--Politics And Government
...more generally anything bad or naughty . 12 By not letting the censor conclusively delete her words, Kassandra promotes the textual...Mothers present , Kassandra blatantly implicates herself as the censor. She recounts getting a doll from her absent mother: 11 I...
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The Censor, the Editor, and the Text: The Catholic Church and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon in the Sixteenth Century
Journal article by Adam Shear; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Censor, the Editor, and the Text: The Catholic Church and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon in the Sixteenth Century (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin. The Censor, the Editor, and the Text...and reader, assigning to the censor the role of cultural agent In Raz-Krakotzkins account, the censor takes his place alongside other...here is on the role of the censors in shaping the body of literature...
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Expanding and Validating Applications of the Willingness to Self-censor Scale: Self-censorship and Media Advisers' Comfort Level with Controversial Topics
Journal article by Vincent F. Filak, Scott Reinardy, Adam Maksl; Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 86, 2009
Subjects: Careers, Censorship, Drug use, Gays & lesbians, Legislation, Secondary schools, Students, Studies
...Willingness to Self-Censor. In the years since...willingness to self-censor.26 In each study...authors found that self-censors were more anxious about...situations in which self-censors might be called upon...willingness to self-censor with three specific ideas...
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America's Censor: Anthony Comstock and Free Speech
Journal article by Craig L. Lamay; Communications and the Law, Vol. 19, 1997
Subjects: Censorship--History, Comstock, Anthony--Conduct of life, Obscenity (Law)--Laws, regulations, etc., Sex in literature--Analysis, United States history--1865-1921
...sufficient to play the role of "censor."(163) By 1910 the Dial...Nation protested when postal censors in Chicago refused to mail...some play prohibited by the Censor followed by a round robin of...civil challenge to his role as censor. His more mainstream critics...
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Denying Authorship: Sade and the Censor
Journal article by Brigitte Weltman-Aron; The Romanic Review, Vol. 86, 1995
Subjects: Authorship--Analysis, Censorship--Analysis, Sade, Marquis de--Authorship
...both points.(12) Censors must assume a consistency...the opinion of the censor. This view may seem...apparent that the censors task of drawing the...exchange with the censor, on which to build...of it given by the censor. When one reads...objection raised by his censors. Not infrequently...
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Multicultural Content and Class Participation: Do Students Self-Censor?
Journal article by Cheryl A. Hyde, Betty J. Ruth; Journal of Social Work Education, Vol. 38, 2002
Subjects: Multiculturalism--Study and teaching, Social work education--Evaluation
...class participation: do students self-censor? by Cheryl A. Hyde , Betty J. Ruth...students report discomfort and self-censor in select social work courses? * Are...rolling eyes, shifting in seats) and censor themselves if they anticipate being slighted...
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A Chat with My Censor
Magazine article by Slavenka Drakulic; The Nation, Vol. 246, March 12, 1988
Subjects: Censorship--Personal narratives, Yugoslavia--Censorship
...among others), is usually the censor of his newspaper. But the...He really didnt look like a censor. Of course, the "reason...dont need to chat with our censors too often, that we make their...to interrogate myself as my censor would. But I also understand...
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Censor or Be Sacked
Magazine article by John Wicklein; The Quill, Vol. 93, August 2005
Subjects: Censorship, College professors, Firings, Freedom of the press, Journalism, Student rights
...dumped because of refusing to censor stories. It might not be direct...students and for her refusal to censor the content of the Interrobang...function as mentors, never censors. CMAs Code of Ethical Behavior...that the next time they try to censor their campus papers they will...
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Of Freaks and Censors
Magazine article; Film Ireland, October 2000
Of Freaks and Censors Film Censor Sheamus Smith has banned...films since he became Censor in 1985. Metro Tartan...The decision by the Film Censors Office suggests that restrictions...recent intervention by the Censor concerns the Jim Carrey...
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Is It Wise to Censor the Net? Legislation Raises Questions about Freedom of Speech and Decency
Magazine article by Fonda Marie Lloyd; Black Enterprise, Vol. 26, December 1995
Subjects: Database industry--Laws, regulations, etc., Internet--Laws, regulations, etc., Online searching--Censorship, online services--Laws, regulations, etc.
Is it wise to censor the Net? Legislation raises questions...that any attempt by the government to censor the Net could end up banning views not...group, or even the government, wants to censor. The dual nature of this debate has members...
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High School Confidential: In Their Efforts to Suppress Negative News, Administrators Are Increasingly Apt These Days to Censor Student Newspapers. and the Young Journalists Are Fighting Back
Magazine article by Jill Rosen; American Journalism Review, Vol. 24, June 2002
Subjects: Freedom of speech--Laws, regulations, etc., High schools--Publishing, Journalism--Management, Newspapers--Management, School districts--Management, Student newspapers and periodicals--Management, Students--Laws, regulations, etc.
...administrators are increasingly apt these days to censor student newspapers. And the young journalists...The court found administrators could censor a St. Louis student paper that wanted...censorship is. Im not going to try to censor," he says. "Im just going to make...
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Film Censor's Signature on Movie Licence Sees Him Taken for a Porn King; Council Fines John Kelleher E3k over Sex Shops in Farcical Case of Mistaken Identity
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 16, 2010
Subjects: Censorship, City councils, Pornography
Film Censors Signature on Movie Licence...years chasing the Irish film censor after a too-hasty look at...name of the national film censor instead of that of the shops...Kelleher, who retired as censor last November, and have him...
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Film Censor Admits Movie Is Too Violent for Children; Violence: Heath Ledgers Evil Joker Is No Laughing Matter for Children
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 6, 2008
Subjects: Censorship
...Byline: Aiden Corkery THE film censor has criticised parents who...commentators rounded on the censor, saying it was his job to...child is mature enough. The censor said he believes cinemas should...parents read the synopsis on the censors website it would have cleared...
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Film Censor Loses the Plot
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 22, 2009
Subjects: Censorship
Film Censor Loses the Plot. Byline...allowed to view adult films that censors in the UK and America have...classification - formerly the film censor - John Kelleher to apply an...situation at home. The film censor shouldnt be lowering the limits...
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Coroner Slates Government Plans to Censor Press with Secret Inquests
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 1, 2006
Subjects: Censorship--Investigations, Censorship--Political aspects
Coroner Slates Government Plans to Censor Press with Secret Inquests. Byline...proposals to give coroners the power to "censor the press", in a Parliamentary journal...with great respect." "I dont want to censor the press. Why should I have that power...
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More Sex, Please - We're British; the Censors Passed Michael Winterbottom's Hyper-Explicit 9 Songs, but Balked at Suicide in Tracey Emin's Top Spot. They Are Treating Us as Adults at Last - but They Need to Get Tougher Still on Violence
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 28, 2004
...from psychopaths. But any censor has to take account of public...intent tends to count with the censor and serious filmmakers do...the film may recall that the censors said of Andy Warhols sexually...there wouldnt be the need for a censor. But we arent, and if you...
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encyclopedia articles on: Censor  - 19 results

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Censor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CENSOR sen s r, title of two magistrates of ancient Rome (from c.443 b.c. to the time of Domitian). They took the census (by...
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Cato the Elder
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CATO THE ELDER ka to or Cato the Censor, Lat. Cato Major or Cato Censorius...praetor (198), consul (195), and censor (184). He was renowned for his devotion...his day. See A. E. Astin, Cato the Censor (1978...
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Metellus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...consul in 143 and defeated the Celtiberians in N Spain. As censor (131) he proposed that marriage be made compulsory for Roman...Marius , who later received his command. While serving as censor (102), Numidicus tried to remove Lucius Appuleius Saturninus...
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Ch'Ien-Lung
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...some of Chinas finest porcelain and cloisonne were produced for his collections, and vast anthologies were edited, partly to censor seditious references to the Manchus. Despite the surface splendor of cultural achievement and imperial expansion, his reign...
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Malesherbes, ChrÉtien Guillaume De Lamoignon De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...president of the Court of Aids at Paris. His father, then chancellor of France, made him director of the press, the chief censor. His liberal policy permitted the publication of the Encyclopedie . Fearing royal absolutism, he opposed the dissolution of...
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