Word: exoduses
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...professors, one from Harvard and one from Boston University, will issue a report next Saturday evaluating the impact of "Operation Exodus" on racial imbalance problems in Boston's schools...
Consultant Hans Blumenfeld: "The pattern of residential distribution by family type is entirely voluntary, deliberate and rational. It is hard to find any sound reason for the fashionable outcry 'to bring the middle-class family back into the city.' " In part, the suburban exodus reflects Americans' deep-seated anti-urban sentiment, the puritanical belief, in Poet William Cowper's words, that "God made the country, man made the town" (to which City Lover Oliver Wendell Holmes memorably retorted: "God made the cavern and man made the house...
...state Board's demands last week were modest and reasonable. It asked the Committee to make clear how and when future school construction will correct present imbalance. It called for direct financial support to private groups like Operation Exodus, which is now busing a few hundred children out of Roxbury. It sought consideration of proposals to bus a few hundred more Negroes to suburban schools...
...drunken schoolmaster, a surrogate father who has fed Gareth's blind yearnings as surely as his true father has starved his spirit. And he must face the vision of what he may become, in the person of a blowsy ginned-up Irish-American aunt who is making his exodus to America possible...
...they adjust their expectations for the summer. The children of the tribe are home for vacation, restless because they miss boarding school in town. For the older teenagers especially the summer in Supai only reaffirms their determination to leave the settlement. Parents and tribal leaders, frightened by the threatened exodus of Havasupai's young blood, welcome the PBH volunteers to Supai because they are often able to convince the children and teenagers that there is something precious about their Canyon. Harvard students often claim that their job for the summer was "building egos" -- showing 10-year-olds who want...