Word: freeing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...casual comments, for detached thoughts that would not be improved by reaching symmetrical harmony, vers libre may be quite in keeping. But that is only saying that for certain types of verse the best form is a lack of form. There is always the dangerous temptation to express in free verse thoughts that might be more perfectly expressed otherwise. And it is that danger that has led some unkind people to characterize free verse as a vehicle for half-baked thoughts...
...Boston's greatest civic possessions is the Lowell Institute. It was founded in 1836 by John Lowell, Jr., and has been giving free public instruction ever since. There is everything in these lectures to interest Harvard students. President Lowell is the trustee, and many of the professors of the University are speakers...
There will be a special sepia illustrated supplement of eight pages, with pictures of football stars of the University and Princeton, and of the important games this fall. This edition will be delivered free to regular subscribers and will be on sale at news-stands in Cambridge and Boston and at all hotels...
...short, says Professor Dickinson, "political opinion ceases to be free in England as soon as it is sufficiently unpopular...
Professor Dickinson concludes that speech is free as long as we agree with the speaker. When we do not, it is howled down. In both the gentleman and the thug, the first impulse is to throw a brick at the man who says something with which he strenuously disagrees. The difference between the gentleman and the thug is that the gentleman lets his opponent have his say. The thug throws the brick. Boston Globe...