Word: unwritten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reminds me that behind each page that makes it to press, there's an looming, unwritten shadow...
Life in Maida could be oppressive, governed as it was not only by absentee landlords and corrupt bureaucrats in distant Naples but also by unwritten codes, rituals and time-honored superstitions. Italian peasants, Talese notes, are profoundly (and no doubt justifiably) pessimistic; at times of trouble, the people of Maida would turn for succor to a favorite saint, Francis of Paola, whose decorated statue was paraded through the village on the shoulders of its men on great feast days. It is not surprising that some of Maida's sons were tempted by the riches and freedom that exile offered, leaving...
Many journalists hoped the Gary Hart standard would stick and thereby excuse them from further contemplation of this distressing subject. They hoped especially for an unwritten rule that only ongoing goings-on count. But it's probably not going to be that easy. Nor should...
...latest confrontation with that challenge came late last month in Israel when conductor Daniel Barenboim proposed to defy an unwritten ban on Wagner's works by performing excerpts from two operas at a special, nonsubscription concert with the Israel Philharmonic. The idea met with such fervid opposition that it has had to be at least temporarily abandoned. The reason had little to do with the music and a lot to do with the composer and the anti-Semitic intellectual company he kept, both while he was alive and after his death: Father Jahn, Count Gobineau, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Alfred Rosenberg...
...rules of Congress are arcane, often unwritten, and demand a lifetime of male bonding to understand. It's bad form to call one's deepest philosophical enemy anything but "my distinguished colleague," or to continue a political argument after hours. When cries went up for a list of Capitol Hill check bouncers, House Speaker Tom Foley protected Democrats and Republicans alike, as does the Ethics Committee. So ingrained is the clubbiness that partisanship often seems like a Hulk Hogan spectacle, faked for the C-SPAN audience...