Word: exoduses
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...Boston jazz scenedoes not suffer from a lack of musicians. Still, it continues to be plagued by an onagain/off-again audience, a diminishing number of clubs and steady exodus of young players to New York...
...exodus into the basements of newly-renovated Yard dormitories has already begun. Student organizations--including the Perspective and Salient magazines--will have finished moving out of their old homes in the Memorial Hall basement by this weekend...
...Future: An Exodus to Europe...
...song and be moved," Reagon says in one episode. "But within the African-American tradition there is a high value put on being caught up in the singing." Listening to Aretha Franklin's graceful flight through the softly powerful hymn Never Grow Old, or the Barrett Sisters' vocal exodus through the redemptive gospel song I Don't Feel Noways Tired, one cannot help being caught up, regardless of one's personal faith. Wade in the Water is a deluge of joy that sweeps the listener away...
Relatively few emigrants found the paradise promised by the ads and the letters home. The early arrivals were, by and large, poor, ill-schooled and young (two-thirds were between 15 and 39 years old). In Europe's principal ports of exodus -- Liverpool and Cork, Bremen and Rotterdam -- they were beset by thieves and hucksters, cheated by ship's captains (there was no set fee for tickets to America) and, until the age of steam, often even ignorant of where they would eventually land. If they survived the journey -- and as many as one-third died aboard ship or within...