Word: exoduses
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...fascinating to see how prototypes from older art were adapted to the artists' ends. Thus the motif of Moses leading the Exodus becomes Bingham's image of Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap toward the promised land; thus the buckskin-clad immigrant and his family are consciously meant to evoke Joseph, Mary and Jesus on the flight into Egypt. The religious imagery sometimes amounts to a suffocating pietism, but that was America too. It still...
...internationalized." The minority leaders are also desperate to bring their people home, down from their squalid border shelters where they are perishing by the hundreds every day. If a shaky truce is the price, so be it. The Kurdish chieftains feel especially responsible for ending the misery of the exodus since they helped cause it by urging their people to rise up against Saddam in March...
...group, dubbed Harvard Against Repression of the Kurds (HARK), began meeting last Wednesday in reaction to recent reports detailing the horrors of the Kurdish exodus from Iraq. Millions of Kurds are streaming into neighboring Iran and Turkey in search of food and shelter and a safe haven from the brutal civil war that is tearing apart the country...
...dead as the protesters surged into the building, burning party files and the portraits of communist Albania's founding father, Enver Hoxha. Another shooting victim died later. The port city of Durres, besieged last month by Albanians seeking any vessel out of their blighted country, braced for a new exodus. While communist leader Ramiz Alia remains the head of both state and party, he could have trouble continuing the concessions that led to free elections. Party hard- liners are in the ascendant, and last week's crackdown could even signal a return to the bad old days of Stalinist-style...
Jews across the world celebrated the Passover Seder, the ritual retelling of the Exodus, this past weekend. This is a joyous holiday, as everyone knows. However, it is not unmitigatedly happy. Integral to the Seder is the spilling of drops of wine in memory of the plagues visited on the Egyptians; we honor their suffering. On the day preceding the first night of Passover, the Fast of the First-Born is observed in mourning for all the Egyptians, innocent youths and guilty taskmakers alike, who perished so that the Jewish people could be liberated. We are not permitted to celebrate...