Word: unspoken
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...teams’ hot starts have led to some “unspoken competition” between the siblings, according to Nick...
There is the unspoken hope that his mixed-race freshness carries a broader political originality. And, in fact, he does embody something that no other presidential candidate possibly can: the idealism that race is but a negligible human difference. Here is the radicalism, innate to his pedigree, which automatically casts him as the perfect antidote to America's exhausted racial politics. This is the radicalism by which Martin Luther King Jr. put Americans in touch--if only briefly--with their human universality. Barack Obama is the progeny of this idealism. As such, he is a living rebuke to both racism...
...short survey of recent adjustments to college life should suffice: in-suite fireplaces sealed up, the House lottery completely randomized, and an unspoken tolerance of underage drinking imperiously overridden. Even these more trivial, yet preciously guarded, traditions of Harvard life have garnered the wrath of the postmodern social engineers who run this University...
...father’s comments have had much impact on how Harvard students viewed the elder Romney—now a leading Republican presidential candidate. Tagg Romney, a 1998 graduate of the Business School and a senior advisor to his father’s campaign, said there was an unspoken undercurrent of support for Romney’s criticism of Harvard. “My dad is not going to win the majority of Harvard votes,” he said. But “it is so important to encourage young people to get involved and wonderful...
...Often in a Kerr movie, love is unspoken, not acted on, as in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (again with Mitchum), whose plot sounds like the first line of a joke - did you hear the one about the Marine and the nun, stranded on a Pacific island? There's the spark of attraction too when she plays the English governess to Yul Brynner's Siamese monarch in The King and I. Shall they dance? Divinely. Consummate their affections? Unthinkable...