freethinker

The place was populated by Marxists and anarchists, “churchmen and agnostics, freethinkers, Darwinists and spiritualists … and dress reform cranks.”

A news release from the atheist and freethinker group said Mr. McBurnett responded via email, “The Facebook post has been removed, and the district will refrain from posting anything similar in the future.”

“They were freethinkers. ... I liked listening to them and hearing ideas exchanged.”

Partly because we admire rebels and freethinkers, those who give a Bronx cheer to the stuffy power elite in any field.

The Amos track is an apt choice for framing some of the prevailing themes of the series, delineating between the boring and repressed “cornflake girls” and the more thrilling “raisin girls,” who are freethinkers.