Word: unspoken
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...think of such segregation as negative, just as a fact of city living. I didn’t think about how it came to be that blacks on 22nd Street scarcely settled across one set of railroad tracks near me on 26th Street, as if by an unspoken rule...
That the summer was punctuated by a terrorist attack on New York City hangs mostly unspoken over The Hamptons. But there's an elegiac air amid the sun and glitz here, a reminder of the feeling, even before Sept. 11, that the turn-of-the-century easy-money culture was fading. (One subject, Josh Sagman, an oxygen-bar peddler--he literally charges people to breathe--is the embodiment of cocky boom-era entrepreneurialism.) Even in midsummer, local author Steven Gaines talks about the place in the past tense. "This was the resort that was closest to the financial center...
...fact, we may be getting a bit quick building our memorials, in an unspoken effort to rush through a state of mourning - an offshoot of the nonsensical notion of "closure." Death occurs, and in no time up pop communal memorial gestures - flowers and messages borne to suddenly consecrated places such as Strawberry Fields and John Kennedy Jr.'s doorstep. Hasty or not, memorials have clearly become one of the nation's meeting places. The most artistic pop culture representation of this new sense of comfort is the HBO series, "Six Feet Under," in which the dead do not simply walk...
...derisively complained about Paris’ African and Arab immigrants. As the Mayor of Paris, he reportedly grumbled about “the overdose of immigrants,” especially their “noise and smell.” During his tenure as mayor, Chirac continued the unspoken practice of relegating poor whites and immigrants to the suburbs that border the city. Thus, Chirac’s recent landslide victory over Le Pen comes as little hope for ameliorating the very factors that brought a racist a stone’s throw away from the threshold of power...
Radcliffe’s transformation into the Institute for Advanced Study was supposed to make official what had been the unspoken status quo since the integration of the two colleges; Harvard was responsible for male and female students. The passing of the torch, as it were, was also supposed to goad Harvard to take more responsibility for the safety, education and well being of women undergraduates. As the Dean of the Institute, Drew Gilpin Faust, said recently, “By saying I’m not dealing with final clubs, I’m not dealing with date rape...