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Fahrenheit 451

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Fahrenheit 451
describes a future America in which books are prohibited and burned. [Am. Lit.: Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 in Weiss, 289]
See : Censorship
Fahrenheit 451
in an America of the future the fireman’s job is to burn all books that have been concealed from authorities. [Am. Lit.: Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 in Weiss, 289]
See : Fire
Fahrenheit 451
in a future America where books are prohibited, a group of people memorize texts in order to preserve their content. [Am. Lit.: Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 in Weiss, 289]
See : Memory
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During the ALA's Banned Books Week, the superintendent of Virginia's Harrisonburg High School ordered a display of banned or "challenged" books--including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Fahrenheit 451, and The Diary of Anne Frank--removed.
Banned Books, take two by Instructor (1990)
Alton Verm of Conroe, Texas, is petitioning his local school district to remove Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel about book burning, from the curriculum after his daughter complained about the "very bad language" in it.
Taking banned book week literally by The Progressive
The title--a modern take on Ray Bradbury's classic science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, about a degenerate futuristic society--is fitting in more than one way.
Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11": a searing portrait of Bush's ... by Al-Arian, Abdullah A. / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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