Word: exoduses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans for the annual exodus of Harvard delegates to the American Youth Congress in Washington are in full swing, and thirty-five of a quota of seventy men have already been recruited for the trip this week...
...Ancient Near East was the assertion by Herbert Gordon May of Oberlin that the religion of the Hebrew patriarchs differed widely from that of Moses, and that Moses himself probably changed Gods during the Children of Israel's 40 years of wandering in the wilderness during the Exodus. In Genesis the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is regularly referred to as El, and Professor May thinks he was akin to the Canaanite Ba'al. With Moses the Hebrew Bible begins referring to God as Yahweh (Jehovah) more often than as El, and when the Jews invaded Palestine...
...must reckon with the possibility," said Dr. May, "that the exodus from Egypt was under the aegis of the snake deity of the Levite tribe, Nehushtan." Moses' rod turned into a serpent when God told him to cast it down (a miracle later performed by Aaron before Pharaoh) and the snake rod was later used by Moses to bring the ten plagues on Egypt...
...that seems incapable of being squeezed dry. One of the latest literati to draw blood from this cosmic lemon is Elder Olson, a young, Byronic-looking assistant professor of English at Illinois Institute of Technology. His The Cock of Heaven is a long poem about the irremediable genesis, incorrigible exodus and appalling exeunt of the Goddamned, salvation-proof children of Adam. For purely literary excitement, it should rank as the poetic book-of-the-year...
Streams. The Census showed that certain rivers of migration, begun in the decade before last, still flowed on. The great exodus was from Oklahoma and the other drought-area States in the Great Plains tier (see map). Fastest-growing State was Florida, where sunshine, bathing beauties, vistas of white sand and palm trees, pleasure domes and gambling dens continued to lure the wealthy, the retired and the relaxed. Second in the rate of population growth was New Mexico, where discouraged Okies, who could get no farther, had bogged down. Third fastest-growing State: California, another sun-worshipers' Mecca. Fastest...