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Word: unwritten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Spyros Markezinis was almost finished writing his bestselling history of modern Greece, he decided to end it in the mid-1960s and leave the last chapter unwritten. After all, he was prone to observe, "this revolution will be judged by the way it ends." Even though a politician, Markezinis was in no position to predict what course would be taken by the military regime of Dictator George Papadopoulos, which overthrew Greece's constitutional government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Smiling Juggler | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...idea of folk music in the United States involves at least two different strains: the notion of a constantly changing, often unwritten music, true to the tradition of popular folksinging in its lyrical simplicity and in the use of handcrafted instruments; and the notion of a music clearly reflecting the people's contemporary concerns, resonating in public aspirations and the prevailing national mood...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Striking a New Chord | 10/12/1973 | See Source »

Most of the pushcart men are immigrants, or sons of immigrants, from Italy, Sicily, or Greece. Their day begins at 4:30 AM, when by unwritten law each vendor takes the space whish is his, and ends by 9 or 10 at night, when the produce is packed away...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: The Boston Haymarket | 8/17/1973 | See Source »

...through the aperture of the Ervin hearings. By now, of course, the Nixonian cadre has turned a few phrases to bromides, notably the sci-fi sounds: "At that point in time," and, "In that time frame." Still, these clichés are excellent indicators of the Administration's unwritten laws of language: 1) never use a word when a sentence will do; 2) obscure, don't clarify; 3) Humpty Dumpty was right when he said to Alice: "When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Words from Watergate | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

...many friends in the literary world that he refused to write any criticism, despite many offers. He lived so deeply inside his writing, and sacrificed so much of his own being to it that it is hard to separate the man from his work. His suicide is the last unwritten chapter of Recovery; the book and memory of the man together will remain as testimonies to the fame that so bedevilled...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Haunting Dreams and Delusions | 7/10/1973 | See Source »

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