Word: unwritten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sixty pages of essays tacked on at the end are well worth reading. They all deal with modern post-Eliot and Pound poetry, what Dickey thinks is wrong with it, and where he thinks it should be going. Like everyone else, Dickey has the irrational longing for the unwritten and perhaps unwriteable poetry which would hold up a clear mirror to the way we live now. He does, however, offer some very rational suggestions on how this kind of poetry might be achieved. For one thing, he says, the poet must discard the language of Eliot, Pound, and Empson...
Alfred contends that he made an "unwritten contract" with the store for the purchase of the book as he found it on the shelf at its marked price...
...Administration can easily exploit the sessions to promote a policy line or send vague hints to other capitals, while retaining the option to deny the whole thing later. Last week the Washington Post deliberately broke the unwritten rules for backgrounders and again called the whole practice into serious question...
There is an unwritten rule of diplomatic courtesy and prudence that officials of one government should never gossip in public about the problems of another. As the White House was reminded last week, there is sound reason for such restraint. During a press breakfast in Washington, White House Director of Communications Herbert Klein commented that he and Presidential Counsellor Robert Finch both came away from their recent swing through six Latin American countries with the "feeling" that Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens' government in Chile "won't last long...
Blue Slip. Senators play a major role in the selection. They are invariably consulted in advance of a nomination, and they have an unwritten but real veto power over the President's choice. Senate practice blocks confirmation of any candidate for the district or circuit bench who is unacceptable to either of his home-state Senators. James Eastland of Mississippi, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sends both of the Senators a blue slip bearing the nominee's name, and if either fails to return it, the nomination is abandoned...