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Krutch, Joseph Wood. Comedy and Conscience After the Restoration. New York, Columbia University Press, 1924. 300p. K203
In chapters entitled The Onslaught on the Stage, the author deals withattacks made on Restoration drama, which centered around Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1688).
-------. "Freedom for Radio and Television; the Risks Involved." Commentary, 10:434-38, November 1950. K204
A favorable review with commentary on Siepmann's Radio, Television, and Society.
-------. "The Indecency of Censorship." Nation, 124:162-63, 16 February 1927. K205
"It is impossible to set any legal standard of decency, for the simple reason that decency is purely a matter of changing convention." But to this literary critic the final and conclusive argument against censorship "is the character of the censor himself, since there never was one who was not utterly ridiculous."
Kugelmass, J. Alvin. "Smut on Our Newsstands." Christian Herald, 75:21-22+, May 1952. (Reprinted in Daniel, The Censorship of Books, pp. 51-55) K206 §
Advice to citizens on how to go about cleaning up the newsstands. Laws are available to get the job done, but fear of the "censorship bugaboo" has made officials hesitant to act.
Kuh, Frederick. "The British Press in Wartime." New Republic, 104:522-24, 21 April 1941. K207
Many believed Britain would adopt Fascist techniques in controlling the press in wartime, but, in fact, the government under both Chamberlain and Churchill "has allowed the press a latitude in criticism which is a constant and refreshing surprise."
Kuh, Richard H. "Obscenity: Prosecution Problems and Legislative Suggestions." Catholic Lawyer, 10:285-300, Autumn 1964. K208
The author discusses the recent experience in New York County with enforcement of the obscenity law (films, books and magazines, sales to minors, high-priced erotica, the movies, and live performers). He reviews the judicial trend on obscenity and recommends a legislative program, the keystone of which is "keeping objectionable items from being foisted upon children." Such legislation should limit its protective cloak to those under 16; should limit its interdiction to those "outsiders" who sell to children; and should be extremely explicit in what is barred.
Kuhl, Ernest. "The Stationers' Company and Censorship (1599-1601)." Library, 9 (4th ser.):388-94, March 1929. K209
From official records the author presents evidence "that the Church during the political crisis took active part in the condemnation of [the Earl of] Essex, and in suppressing Essex propaganda of a non-dramatic nature. It was this ecclesiastical body, in turn, that held accountable (at least during those fifteen months) the company of Stationers."
Kuhn, Bowie K. "Right of a Newsman to Refrain from Divulging Sources of His Information." University of Virginia Law Review, 36:61-83, February 1950. K210
An extensive discussion of statutes and court cases relating to protection of newsmen from divulging sources of information. So-called "confidence laws" exist in 12 states. The author believes these laws are undesirable on broad public grounds and the tendency to give special privilege to occupational groups is unhealthy. Each case should be considered on its own merits. "Privilege to refrain from answering proper questions cannot be extended too far before the administration of justice becomes seriously impaired."
Kuhn, Irene C. "Who Are the Censors?" Catholic Digest, 19(1):86-89, November 1954. K211
The real censors are the Communists who try to prevent books opposing their ideas from being published and, if published, from being reviewed. Books unfavorable to communism are "smothered under the counters of bookstores by disciplined communists put there for that purpose, or by misguided, susceptible clerks."
-------. "Why You Buy Books that Sell Communism." American Legion Magazine, 50:18-19+, January 1951. (Reprinted in Daniels, The Censorship of Books, pp. 82-88) K212 §
The author alleges Communist infiltration of the book trade and left-wing domination of book reviewers for the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune. She cites names of reviewers and titles of books.
-------. "Your Child Is Their Target." American Legion Magazine, 52(6):18-19, 54-60, June 1952. K213
"How a small but well organized minority is attemping to manipulate our public schools to condition our children for what they call 'a new social order.'" The author attacks "progressive" educators John Dewey, William H Kilpatrick, John L. Childs, George S. Counts, and Harold O. Rugg. She claims that honest citizens who are indignant at this development are being charged with a "plot" against the public schools.
Kuhn, Lesley, comp. Theodore Schroeder: The Sage of Cos Cob; The Definitive Bibliography of His published Works . . . Compiled and Annotated by Lesley Kuhn, With Comments by Roland Baughman . . . Ethel Clyde, Harry Golden, H. L. Mencken, Havelock Ellis, and Others. New York, Psychological Library, 1964. 46p. K214
Includes an inventory of Schroeder's works in leading American libraries. Schroeder is probably the most prolific of all modern writers on the subject of freedom of the press, especially on those aspects relating to blasphemy and obscenity.
-------, et al. Theodore Schroeder's Last Will. New York, Psychological Library, 1958. 40p. K215
Tribute to a leading advocate of the freedom of the press, Thoedore A. Schroeder (1864-1953), by Alison Reppy, Ethel Clyde, and Lesley Kuhn. The volume contains an account of Schroeder's will, leaving his estate to Mrs. Clyde and Mr. Kuhn for the purpose of collecting, arrranging, and publishing his writings, and the decision of the Connecticut Supreme Court holding the trust invalid and awarding the estate to cousins. Judge O'Sullivan stated that "the law will not declare a trust valid when the object of the trust, as the finding discloses, is to distribute articles which reek of the sewer." A lower court judge has found that Schroeder's works "extol anti-social ideas" and were offensive to religious beliefs of Mormons and Catholics. Schroeder had opposed polygamy and favored birth control.
Kunitz, Stanley J. "Anti-American Way." Wilson Library Bulletin, 15:258-59, November 1940. K216
In his column, The Roving Eye, Kunitz is concerned with the intellectual climate of America when a state library trustee objects to too many "anti-American" books in our libraries; the Librarian of Congress "indicts our post-war writers, including himself, for telling th truth, the awful truth, about the war they lived through"; President Butler of Columbia University "warns his faculty, in extraordinary assembly, that professors and students not in sympathy with his pro-war stand should resign"; the chairman of the New York State Economic Council organizes a movement to ban the social science textbooks of Professor Harold O. Rugg.
Kunstler, William M. "Andrew Hamilton." In his The Case for Courage. New York, Morrow, 1962, pp. 17-45. K217
An account of the courage of the New York lawyer in defending John Peter Zenger, an impoverished printer accused of criminal libel. A century after his death, Hamilton's interpretations of the law of criminal libel have been accepted by the English-speaking world.
Kupferman, Theodore R., and Philip J. O'Brien, Jr. "Motion Picture Censorship: the Memphis Blues." Cornell Law Quarterly, 36:273-300, Winter 1951. K218
"The purpose of this article is to examine the bases of the Mutual Film decision in light of subsequent law and of fuller appreciation of the role of the motion picture and the censor to the community, and to determine how the issue may again be raised in order to give due weight to the intellectual menopause." This was the case of Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission in 1915, in which an Ohio Statute providing for a board of censors of motion pictures was held by the U.S. Supreme Court to be constitutional. Much of the discussion relates to the Memphis censorship of the movie, Curley, and the decisions of the courts.
Kutner, Luis. "Unfair Comment: A Warning to News Media." University of Miami Law Review, 17:51-74, Fall 1962. K219
"This article . . . proposed to delineate the steps to be taken in the light of existing case law to insure the defendant's right to a fair trial when unfavorable publicity may have reached and clouded the impartial judgment of the jurors."
Kvaraceus, William C. "Can Reading Affect Delinquency?" ALA Bulletin, 59:516-22, June 1965. K220 §
The author explores some of the factors that relate to the fear, implicit in censorship, that reading of books will corrupt behavior. He considers these factors in terms of five focal principles: the wide gulf between knowing and doing, the highly individualistic reaction to literary works, the book as a souce of hard-to-get information on sex, the principle of therapy, and the principle of guidance. "Reading must be viewed more as a symptom than a cause of adjustment or maladjustment. Reading tends to enforce what is already present and what has already been learned or experienced, frequently as far back as the early childhood years . . . Reading a specific book will seldom cause a 'normal' or 'average' child to go out and commit a similar act."
Kyle-Keith, Richard. The High Price of Pornography. Washington, D.C., Public Affairs, 1961. 230p. K221
A survey of the manufacture and dissemination of pornogrphy in all forms of the mass media, presented as a serious social problem in the United States. Mr. Kyle-Keith cites evidence of the close connection between pornography and crimes of violence. He concludes: (1) Society must alter the sex directed tendencies in the mass media to avoid creating a need which cannot be satisfied under currently accepted mores. (2) Unless voluntary standards are applied by the media, public opinion will force a more rigid control.
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