Word: disembarkment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Monday morning take the only bus out of the Square which has a destination identical to the name of a Harvard House, and which leaves from behind that house. Disembark when you hear violins and French horns. You will be outside Symphony Hall, the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra--try to catch one of their concerts some time during the week. Or walk down Huntington Ave., away from the John Hancock Building, and stop when you see a horse to your right. The building behind the statue is the Museum of Fine Arts, featuring an exhibit of Rembrandt etchings...
...most subtle and humorous scenes comes right after the train gag. All the men entering the studio contest disembark from the train in Hollywood wearing identical white suits, and Annie gets lost within a sea of Rudy lookalikes. She examines dozens of faces, but cannot find her husband. The segment looks funnier than it sounds, but it works beatifully because it is not dragged...
...roots of the racial violence are familiar: a suspicion of unfamiliar customs and a tendency to blame problems on newcomers. Many Bradfordians complain that destitute immigrants are given cash payments by the government when they disembark at Heathrow Airport, while white pensioners must scrimp along on inadequate retirement pay. Describing herself as opposing immigration, Shopkeeper Patricia Barrow is convinced that the Pakistanis inhumanely slaughter sheep and chickens according to Islamic ritual; she also fears that "colored boys will be hanging around white girls...
Most Bronxites leg it faster than they are accustomed to when they disembark from the Broadway subway at 242nd St. and Van Cortlandt Park, but the Harvard harriers are not your average group of New Yorkers and yesterday they were badly outstripped by both Penn and Columbia...
...with historical foundation. In 1939, as part of a propaganda effort, the Nazis bundled Jews from all levels of German life, privileged to deprived, onto a Hamburg-Amerika liner, the St. Louis. The ship was bound out of Hamburg to Havana, Cuba, where the passengers understood they could disembark if they chose. Once in Havana harbor, however, the Jews were not allowed off the ship. Their landing permits had been deliberately scrambled by the Cuban government in league with the Nazis, who wanted the ship to sail from port to port searching for asylum. The St. Louis would then become...