Word: unwritten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First World War. It is the first since 1910 to redistribute wealth "upwards" rather than "downwards." It is the first government this century to launch a determined and vicious attack against organized labor, and it is the first government since the Second World War to abandon completely the unwritten law of consensus in British politics...
...player four tickets to each of his team's games-and then winks at the common practice of scalping those tickets. For the recent Sugar Bowl, Alabama Split End Wayne Wheeler hoped to get $100 per seat. At Alabama, the custom is so established that there is an unwritten rule requiring players who still have tickets on Thursdays before games to dump them at any price, so that they can concentrate on practice...
...President is immune from subpoenas because the courts have no power to enforce any order against him; that only the impeachment process of Congress can touch him. Moreover, argued Nixon's legal consultant, University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan Wright, Nixon's tapes were protected by the unwritten doctrine of Executive privilege. Only the President had the power to decide which of his documents were so privileged or which might also endanger national security if made public. At issue, contended Wright, was "nothing less than the continued existence of the presidency as a functioning institution...
Daniel Aaron thinks that the Civil War has never been properly treated in American literature because the issue of race created an emotional resistance blurring literary insight. That is the central and most provocative thought of his book, The Unwritten...
Aaron is at his best in covering this material; the book is the best of any of his work so far. He is scholarly without being abstruse; he writes directly and very well. The Unwritten War Daniel Aaron proves again that he is one of the finest contemporary critics of American history and literature...