Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of a less than affluent monas tic community whose school enjoys only a regional reputation, may I voice a quiet demurrer to the notion that monasticism in the 20th century is likely to solve the ancient antinomy, action-contemplation, by the efforts of pressagent monks or by an exodus from our monasteries to search for activity in the world at large...
...produce, the peasants in effect were voting against Ulbricht with their plows, just as the masses of escaping East Germans (3,500,000, or 20% of the population since 1945) had voted against him with their feet. The Berlin Wall has sharply curbed but not entirely halted the exodus from East Germany; about 1,500 a month still manage to flee. Ulbricht publicly admitted last week that the purpose of the Wall had been to halt the flight and its debilitating effects on the East German economy. In a revealing year-end article in Moscow's Pravda, he tried...
Marina City was the idea of William L. McFetridge, president of the 300,000-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. Building Service Union, who hoped to stem the population exodus to the suburbs, give union members more work within the heart of Chicago. So promising is Marina City that a group of New York banks willingly granted it a 97% mortgage...
...argument that West Berlin is a good place for youth to get out of, it was a notable show of spirit-and much of it came from a notably spirited school: the Free University of Berlin. When the Communists put up the Wall in August, pessimists predicted a mass exodus of students and teachers from West Berlin. In fact, the reverse has happened. When it began its winter semester this month, the Free University was jammed to overflowing with a record enrollment of 13,000. "Afraid?" says one young professor. "Of course we're afraid...
...children. Some Pan American flights arriving in Miami have as many as 60 children on board, many traveling alone. When Castro's police halted one recent flight carrying 40 children, parents raised such a howl in the airport lobby that the order was rescinded. Behind the new exodus is a new fear: that Castro is planning to take children away from their families in order to train them in Communism...