Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, the Soviets have been easing their restrictions on Jewish emigration, possibly as a result of outside pressures. The total for this year may reach 10,000. That is not many in a community of some 2,000,000, but it is a lot more than the 1,000 exit visas granted to Jews last year-and more than have been granted for any other Soviet minority...
...Peaceful Exit...
Many thousand gone and the show goes on and on. Nothing can be done for George Jackson and the five other men who died with him in San Questin. Nor can anything be done for the 43 cadavers carried out of Attica. Theirs was a final exit. But the irrational drama in which they once participated continues--in California, where on the basis of the testimony of 25 witnesses (all of whom were guards) a Marin County grand jury has indicted seven San Questin cons for conspiracy in the killings of the five dead whites--in New York, where...
Escape literature is the term generally used to designate a chickenhearted conspiracy of writers and readers who do not want to face up to real life. But as Playwright Tom Stoppard noted in his existential comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an exit is always an entrance some place else. One of the most original, whimsical escape artists in contemporary American writing is Richard Brautigan, who is definitely some place else...
...night and sat wrapped in blankets at the foot of the ruins to watch fireworks and a son et lumière display of Persian history. After an hour the Shah, noticing some royal yawns and glazed eyes, mercifully rose from his chair and almost everybody took the welcome exit cue. The guests trooped back to their tents and had a whole morning to sleep before getting up for lunch, a parade and another dinner with the regal couple before flying home...