Word: freedly
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...coal to which his father has mortgaged his existence. "It's no good hanging on," Colin finally tells the older woman he deserts, with sudden insight. The alternative, beautifully inevitable in Saville, is to walk fearlessly ahead into a vacant future, armed only with the prayer that life, freed from its bondage to the past, is indeed limitless...
...Supreme Court freed major league baseball from charges of illegal anti-competitive practices by granting the sport an exemption from the antitrust laws. Since that ruling, the legality of the perpetual reserve system has been the subject of constant court cases...
...holds up a bank, Charlotte becomes a victim of irony-a hostage without the walking shoes she has hoarded for her trip. The flight to Florida does not produce the expected liberation. Instead, Charlotte's journey is overshadowed by memories of her childhood, her preacher husband, her children. Freed at last from the trappings of her life, she can only think of what she has left behind...
...poorly expressed version of the Marxist analysis of commodity fetishes and the mass production of goods. Instead of penetrating capitalism as a system of production and power, Sennett bows once more to appearances. To his mind, the drab, undistinguished-looking mass-produced clothing made in the new factories freed people to invest the clothes with personality. By breaking down the conventions of dress that defined the public image in 18th century London, industrialism let loose the private in the public realm. The emptiness of this seemingly sophisticated explanation evokes the images of the emperor in his new clothes...
...vengeance. An anguished cry went up that resounded all the way down to Washington, where Woodrow Wilson--a wise man who knew where his next vote was coming from, and that it often spoke with a brogue--got on the horn to London. By a miracle, the British government freed the surviving insurrectionists. The revolution continued in Ireland, and the Irish in America again broke out their proud green flags...