Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exodus, Uris...
...foot-deep with bird droppings and dust, which rose in choking clouds around the explorers. In one, amidst the midden, was a vulture's nest. With unliterary impartiality, the vultures had used fragments of parchment to complete the nest. On one fragment 16 verses of the Book of Exodus were written in Hebrew script that was current in Jerusalem about 130 A.D. This and other evidence convinced Israeli scholars that the cave had been a refuge of last-ditch followers of the self-styled Messiah Bar Kochba, who led the Jews in a desperate three-year revolt against...
Like certain poisons, taxes can be taken only in small doses. When the peacetime national tax passes 10%, people begin to take evasive action (in Parkinson's view, the Book of Exodus is the story of an epic tax dodge). At about 25%, inflation debases the currency. Over 35%, taxes are alms for oblivion; the nation is carting itself to history's junkpile...
FICTION 1 . Hawaii, Michener ( 1 )* Advise and Consent, Drury (2) 3. The Devil's Advocate, West (4) 4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (3) 5. Poor No More, Ruark (6) 6. Exodus, Uris (9) 7. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (5) 8. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (8) 9. The War Lover, Hersey (7) 10. Fuel for the Flame, Waugh (10) NONFICTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. May This House Be Safe from Tigers...
...Exodus, Uris...