Word: departers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young people drive them back to Tokyo; they then decide to return home. On the way, the wife, who has always seemed the stronger of the two, suffers a stroke; her children come rushing to her sickbed. She dies, leaving her husband alone--the children, of course, depart immediately...
...Nova Scotia. Canadian laws permit railroads and shipping companies to offer combined freight rates at substantial discounts; such discounts are prohibited in the U.S. Even such distinctively U.S. products as Playboy magazine, Kodak film, and Michigan beans (which in a later incarnation are known as Boston baked beans) now depart from Canadian ports for their worldwide destinations...
THOUGH good things have a way of coming to an end, the bad ones don't depart unless we force them to. Of all the issues of the last year, the Indochina War remains the most persistent, the most cruel, the most shameful. Four years ago, few would have predicted that the war which forced Lyndon Johnson into retirement would be prosecuted on ever-higher levels of mechanized slaughter in the spring of 1972. But Nixon's "peace" plans are only aimed at American voters. In Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, his plans call for victory over all efforts for independence...
...with rehearsal fever. On the mainstage, Liz Coe is directing Moliere's "Imaginary Invalid," the first play she has directed which is not twentieth century. In her production of "The Imaginary Invalid," Coe has fused her directorial and authorial talents by integrating three translations to compose the script, "to depart from the stiff, dull and awkward seventeenth century prosaic speech patterns to which the academic translators feel committed. But this departure from the sacred script," she goes on to explain, "is just an extension of the motif we have followed in every aspect of our production: anachronism." As she firmly...
Because All in the Family tries to depart from this tradition of unrealism, the show has problems. The show purports to be real--comic, to be sure, but its producers seem to seriously view it as humorously prodding the social consciences of its audience. Because they take themselves too seriously, the show sometimes turns sour...