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...Palestine Scandal. The indictment was overdrawn but not incorrect. Farouk, who could have been an uncommonly intelligent and able King (and occasionally was), turned out in the main to be an uncommonly gross and unrestrained one. He gave free rein to all his appetites-from women to power, and treated his Premiers as he did his girl friends, changing them constantly (five Premiers in one six-month period). After the birth of his only son he made a valiant effort to straighten up, and brought in honest Premier Hilary Pasha to purge the corruption that was endangering the government...
...effect, advocating the further extension of that philosophy which now dominates the public school system, namely: materialist secularism. It is ironic indeed that the CRIMSON should be concerned lest other philosophies intrude into a system of public education in which one philosophy, the same secularism, already has free rein. Is not this a limitation of freedom...
...great shakes. His masters at Barcelona's School of Architecture labeled him a mediocre student. His first professional work, a group of Barcelona workers' cottages, was dull and uninspired. But when a rich Barcelona cotton merchant offered him patronage, Gaudi began to give his lively imagination free rein...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola was not happy over the meet. He was, however, inclined to dismiss most of the trouble as more first meet jitters. Nevertheless, it wasn't easy to dismiss lightly several glaring weaknesses that made even the most avid Crimson track fan hold a rein on his enthusiasm...
...from a historical novel in that it does not introduce fictional characters against a background of history, but instead tells the story through the actual people who lived it and helped to make it happen." In other words, while Tolstoy was able to give his imagination a pretty free rein in War & Peace, Stone, applying the biographical method to Andrew and Rachel Jackson, makes it his business to use his imagination as little as possible...