Word: exoduses
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...like to think the movie's lack of insight is due mainly to the special difficulty of transferring this novel into film. The filmmakers make this difficult to believe. Michael Legrand's score comes on like Muzak's version of the Exodus theme, matching the subtlety of Lehman's own technique. Lehman rivals that other Catskill whizkid, Otto Preminger, and gives us so many establishing shots that he all but draws a map for us. If I little more optimistic about TV situation drama, I'd say that this movie was made...
...Church and Center. The tower was dedicated to TIME'S founder, Henry Robinson Luce, a zealous, lifelong Presbyterian, who was a major driving force behind the center. McCord delivered an address entitled "The Faith of Henry Luce," which characterized Luce as "a Calvinist who understood life as an exodus and pilgrimage." Without specifically mentioning COCU, McCord touched on a key problem facing organized ecumenism. Typical of today, he said, was a "flight away from the unity of man. Wherever you look, man seems to be seeking the smaller tribal group. He is looking for his own roots, for identity...
...York Times talked of low pay and insufficient "time to think." Freelancer Murray Kempton, ex-New York Post columnist, cryptically cited "spiritual reasons," and advised those with families to support to quit by age 40 in order to earn an adequate income elsewhere. Most who talked about the exodus from dailies conveyed the impression that they thought their talents were shackled by conventional newspaper discipline...
...hypothesis. The most important fragment he has studied is a jagged, thumbnail-sized piece of papyrus containing only 17 letters, which cut vertically across five lines of text. His technique for identifying it and other fragments-a standard method that Dead Sea Scroll scholars have used to identify an Exodus fragment, among others-is therefore the rough equivalent of reconstructing prehistoric skeleton from a single thigh bone...
...Feast of History (Simon & Schuster; $12.50). Drawing on a rich selection of illustrations, Raphael traces celebrations of the Seder back through the centuries, all the way to Abraham (rabbinic lore anachronistically had it that he celebrated a Seder with the three angels who visited him centuries before the Exodus...