Word: unspoken
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...President Abbas, meanwhile, appears to be flailing. After Hamas presented its nominees, Abbas said he would respond within 48 hours, but first planned to discuss the matter with the PLO Executive Committee. Abbas' unspoken message appeared to be that the PLO's legitimacy trumps that of the Palestinian Authority, the democratically elected body it helped to create with the Oslo Accords. But that is, at best, a dubious proposition, since the PLO actually has no formal constitutional role to play in approving the cabinet. Hamas, which is not part of the PLO and is not likely to take orders from...
...publicly come out. “I am a Christian,” declared Gomes from the steps of Memorial Church that November, “who happens as well to be gay.”Gomes, however, was ordained at a time when the issue of homosexuality was unspoken within his church. If he were in the ordination track today, he knows that his path would be quite different.“Were I 22 or 23,” he says, “I’m not sure what I would...
...students had won some unspoken contest, coming out on top in spite of the frown-clowns who’d dismissed their course as a naïve self-help seminar. They’d called it a group therapy circle, a class better suited for a church basement than the most prestigious lecture space at Harvard. They had said, in sum, that 1504 was not a real class...
...unspoken assumption behind most of those products is that stimulation is good and that more stimulation is even better. But that's not necessarily so, says Meredith Small, an anthropologist at Cornell University and author of Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent. In fact, she says, "there's a growing thought that maybe Americans are overstimulating their babies, or stimulating them in the wrong ways...
While Daniel draws its wealthy Wasps broadly, it doesn't disrespect them (unlike Italian Catholics, represented in the show by a stereotyped, Mob-connected priest). The family's unresolved grief over son Jimmy's death is mostly unspoken but palpable, while Daniel's work is treated as a calling but also, realistically, as a job, with ambitions, pressures and politics. The scripts neatly balance satire and sincerity: while the show's outlandish twists challenge Daniel's faith--he's like Job, if Job lived on Melrose Place--they never mock...