"Of course it's obvious why Kerr gave Candide such an all-out panning," a musician in the Broadway show's orchestra told a friend last week. "He's a Catholic and the book's on the Index."
Walter Kerr, drama critic on the New York Herald Tribune, has heard many such snap judgments. U.S. Roman Catholics, says Catholic Kerr in a sharp little book called Criticism and Censorship (Bruce; $2.75), are wide-open to the suspicion of being too Index-minded or too censorship-conscious. He writes: "It sometimes seems as though the struggle over censorship were a struggle between Catholicism and the rest of America."
A Kind of Ignorance....
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