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...seem to preclude much in the way of a continuation. Edmund Talbot, a smug, upper-class young man sailing from England to the Antipodes in the early years of the 19th century, concludes the private journal he has been keeping for his godfather and patron back home. Talbot's shipboard jottings have coalesced into the remarkable story he witnesses at sea: the long scapegoating and mysterious death of Robert James Colley, an Anglican clergyman...
...time the Italian liner Achille Lauro had reached Alexandria, on the fifth day of a Mediterranean cruise, its 755 passengers had settled into the pleasant routine of shipboard life. There were Ping Pong tournaments, shuffleboard games and lazy afternoons around the pool. In the evening there were dinner and dancing followed by midnight buffets, and every night a troupe of Polish dancers put on a ballet performance...
...passengers had noticed the four Palestinians who had boarded the ship at Genoa. They kept to themselves and did not take part in any shipboard activities. One of the Achille Lauro hostesses later recalled asking the young men their nationality and receiving the improbable and barely intelligible reply, "Norwegian...
Muzak enthusiasts argue that there is a great tradition of music as an accompaniment to work. "It did so in the fields behind the great castles and monasteries of the middle ages," says Keenan. "It did so on shipboard and in the taverns where sailors met to sing their chanteys." Keenan has even unearthed a songbook once issued by a youthful industrial firm, which included a spirited ditty called Ever Onward Ever Onward: "Our reputation sparkles like a gem/ We've fought our way through and new/ Fields we're sure to conquer too/ Forever onward...
...program, run by the University of Pittsburgh and the Institute for Shipboard Education (a private, non-profit organisation), has existed for 13 years, but only six Harvard students had participated before this year...