A tyrant's 'liberation': remembering the fall of Batista, and the 50 years of Cuban misery that have followed.
NEW Y EAR'S DAY marked the 50th anniversary of the Castro regime. The media noted it, Castro's apologists celebrated it, and survivors on three continents remembered the regime's victims and its destruction of a thriving society. Though I was only 13 years old, I will never forget the day...

One of the Most Spectacular Motion Pictures Ever Made and a Collection of Six Rarely Seen Shockers From Hollywood's Decadent Early Days Kick Off the New Universal Backlot Series.
CLEOPATRA - 75TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION AND THE PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION THE CHEAT MERRILY WE GO TO HELL HOT SATURDAY TORCH SINGER MURDER AT THE VANITIES SEARCH FOR BEAUTY Cary Grant, Claudette Colbert, Randolph Scott, Sylvia...

WW I & essays on book history.
Mary Hammond and Shafquat Towheed, eds. Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xiv + 241 pp. $69.95 JUST AS THE FUTURE OF THE BOOK, and especially of the scholarly book, as a physical as opposed to a digital object,...

Doherty High student gets ACLU award.
WORCESTER - A Doherty Memorial High School student and Worcester resident, Hannah Brown, has been nominated to receive a $12,500 American Civil Liberties Union Student Activist Scholarship Award because of her track record of accomplishments, demonstrating her organizing skills and wisdom that put her in a category of her...

'I sing what was lost and dread what was won': W. B. Yeats and the legacy of censorship.
The historiography of theatre censorship has recently undergone a transformation. Received wisdom formerly held that since there was no legislative censorship of theatres, no censorship occurred, but work by Joan FitzPatrick Dean and Peter Martin has significantly revised the understanding of the way that censorship operates. In Censorship in...

Biographer Hazel Rowley reflects on book censorship in France.
The French writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were vehemently opposed to censorship in any form, a belief in truth telling that extended to their own lives. To them, the notion of privacy was a relic of bourgeois hypocrisy. In addition to their autobiographical writing and numerous revealing...

Miracles & sacrilege; Roberto Rossellini, the church, and film censorship in Hollywood.
9780802094933 Miracles & sacrilege; Roberto Rossellini, the church, and film censorship in Hollywood. Johnson, William Bruce. U. of Toronto Press 2008 516 pages $35.00 Paperback BX1407 Johnson (University of London, UK)...

Censorship.
9780313337512 Censorship. Paxton, Mark. Greenwood Press 2008 154 pages $49.95 Hardcover Historical guides to controversial issues in America Z658 As part of the Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in...

Censorship.
9780816071234 Censorship. Caso, Frank. Facts On File, Inc. 2008 342 pages $45.00 Hardcover Global issues Z657 The censorship practices of the United States, Russia, China, Zimbabwe and Egypt are...

Police in Khartoum arrested more than sixty journalists November 19 during a protest against media censorship.
Despite a 2005 peace agreement that promises to uphold freedom of expression and the press in Sudan, police in Khartoum arrested more than sixty journalists November 19 during a protest against media censorship. Wielding canes and shields, police rounded up journalists and confiscated mobile phones and money. Earlier in...