Word: unspoken
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...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...
...University of Pennsylvania addressed the tradition of debutante balls in their study entitled “Social Forces.” They got to the heart of the matter quickly, writing, “[Parents] present the product of their careful rearing to their approved friends with the unspoken sentiment: ‘This is my daughter, now prepared to enter into, and take her part in, our own social set. She is up for your inspection, and may she be acceptable...
...three years ago, when he was an industrious junior and she was adjusting to life as a sophomore. In the years that followed, their relationship carried them through one serious bought of depression, a graduation and long lazy summer days spent together in Bali. But there was always an unspoken tension that stemmed from a single conversation...
...saying of nothing. The Nothing that can’t be said.” Unfortunately, this vision is really only acknowledged in a narrow sense: fear the secret police, lose a child in the womb, write a poem about it. Poetry is, with few exceptions, the voice of unspoken grief...