He enlisted Vargas Llosa, Norman Mailer and American PEN, the writers' association, in a campaign, joined by Senator William Fulbright, to get him exempted from the list barring suspected communists (including Iris Murdoch, García Márquez, Graham Greene, Dario Fo and Simone Signoret) from the US.
It's like they are so frightened of getting it wrong they have exempted themselves from being fashionable".
And don't think my father was exempt - he got it worse than us.
Not only has it prevented action on scores of gun control bills, but it has managed to get itself exempted from other seemingly unrelated legislation.
For one thing, the powerful publishing industry has managed to get its pornographic comic-books exempted from the ban.
As the Paris climate summit enters its final days, the aviation industry is working overtime to get its skyrocketing carbon pollution exempted from the international agreement aimed at averting global warming's worst dangers.
The synod appealed to the head of the Russian church, Patriarch Kirill, to get Greece exempted from the counter-sanctions which Russia has imposed on the European Union so that Greek exports can continue flowing to Russia.
However, oil companies seeking to increase profits by maximizing the utilization of hydro-fracking banded together, put pressure on Congress, and managed to get itself exempted from the 1974 law's provisions.
The act covers deals for "computer information" in its broadest sense, ranging from programs to data except for most products of the entertainment industry, which, in one of several changes serving special interests, got its universe largely exempted from the law.
