For all his rhapsodizings about the education of the soul through contact with nature, W. H. Cobb expected his ballplaying son to master lots of printed pages.

to play a comedy

There are […] liberties that most of us agree should never be restricted – such as the liberty to air opinions publicly on policy issues, or the liberty to read whatever we want to read, or the liberty to worship (or not worship) according to our own belief systems. We refer to these basic liberties, the liberties to which we believe every person is entitled, as civil liberties. There is no easy step-by-step process, no simple ten-word definition, that can tell us which liberties constitute civil liberties. Personal definitions of civil liberties tend to vary depending on what sort of laws one believes should be passed.

Rebellion against the mass market had mass-market appeal, she believed.