Word: unwritten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unwritten publishing rule stipulates that authors stay away from the point sale. That suited Puzo, 57, fine. He spent the big payday in his studio and on his backyard tennis court in Bay Shore, L.I. "To me this was a business matter," he says. "I had nothing to do with it. I told my agent Candida Donadio: 'Get it done and tell me when it's finished...
...glimpsed from the interstate highway or sensed from 35,000 ft. To be sure, the view from Bedroom A or the dome car exposes every automobile graveyard, garbage dump, trailer park, parking lot, drive-in, burger joint, shopping mall, sewage plant, forsaken factory, slum and rural hovel in the unwritten guidebook of desecrated America. Its obverse, as the Crescent weaves its whistling way south toward summer, is a varied, often startlingly beautiful landscape of feathery woods and forests, roses and rhododendrons, pastures and cornfields, laced with urgent streams and dreaming lakes. The earth turns from New Jersey silt to Maryland...
...England, with its unwritten constitution, these sorts of difficulties do not exist. You can't imagine having a Watergate affair in Britain. Most certainly, you cannot imagine the Queen herself being involved in anything of that sort. Nor can you imagine any Prime Minister who had done something crooked or unconstitutional getting away during his weekly audiences with the Queen without having his tail screwed right...
...system of rule that best balanced the claim of the citizen to be free and happy and the need for the state to maintain order. Essentially, democracy depends not on law and the law-enforcing arm of the state but on the willingness of citizens to accept an unwritten contract, a contract between the rational and the atavistic in themselves. When democratic order has to depend on police repression of the antisocial aggressive, then democracy itself is impaired. The more draconian become the measures whereby kidnapers and skyjackers are kept down, the more the democratic world itself is moving toward...
...only has last year's Palmer Dixon shocker left a sour taste in Crimson mouths, but aggressive Yale coach Steve Griggs has irritated just a few folks with his violations of unwritten rules about running a high-powered tennis program in the Ivy League...