Word: unspoken
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...1960s, the drive to look at women as a whole was a necessary part of progress toward equality. It was more justified then: in Betty Friedan’s time, fewer people were aware of the widespread frustration and discrimination affecting most women. It was “buried, unspoken,” as she famously wrote, and writing about the role of women in society was necessary to make people more conscious of the issues arising from gender inequality.But now, several decades later, it seems that this focus has led to an unintended consequence: a tendency to see everything...
...while this column is usually used to provide the writer with one last chance to express those unspoken thoughts that have been building over the years, I have to be completely honest...
...unspoken question for many Haitians, is how much time Préval has to deliver before the guns that were used to destabilize previous governments reappear on the streets. He faces a daunting challenge in ensuring security and restoring the functioning of government and the economy, while cleansing the corruption that runs rampant throughout the public administration. The price of success will be the creation of many, very dangerous enemies...
...certainly a sibling resemblance between the two novels. Sittenfeld's new heroine is a rather strange girl named Hannah: thoughtful, withdrawn, a little out of synch with the world around her. Like Lee, she's mesmerized, and a little paralyzed, by the tiny, glittery hypocrisies and white lies and unspoken truths that make up human interaction...
Honey, however, is hardly the only example of puritainment out there; there is an entire genre answering some unspoken yearning of viewers to have their TVs whip their decadent couch-potato butts into shape, or at least to watch it happen to someone else. Nanny 911, Supernanny, The Biggest Loser, Celebrity Fit Club, Wife Swap, Cold Turkey--in all of them, someone comes in to impose "tough new rules" on participants who stand in for us in weak-willed lumpy America. Lose weight! Quit smoking! Be a better parent! Millions of Americans gladly, masochistically sit down to be lectured...