Word: exoduses
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...Holy Ireland." The exodus from Ireland, which Novelist George Moore ironically justified by calling Ireland "a fatal disease" from which "it is the plain duty of every Irishman to dissociate himself," continued after the country won its independence from Britain in 1921. As in most other newly liberated countries, the men who took over were romantic revolutionary heroes, steeped in the Otherworld but ill prepared by experience to meet the practical challenges of building a modern nation...
...evolution into a sort of Insiders' Newsletter for the soft-goods trade traces to the end of World War II, when Advertising Manager Monroe Green, 57, sent his salesmen after the Times's neighbors in the Seventh Avenue Garment District. Even after manufacturers began their exodus to the South and to Montreal in search of cheaper labor, they continued advertising, just to keep up with the competition. Now, says Green, thousands of women who turn to the magazine "read the ads as news...
These days, they blame Britain's cruel winter of 1962-63, its housing shortage (which is little better in Australia) and the recent economic slump (though few who leave are unemployed). But the biggest single reason for the exodus seems simply to be that the young and the talented feel restive and repressed in today's diminished Britain. For them, as for their ancestors who set out to conquer an empire, opportunity is a ship that leaves Southampton...
From the explosion at the University of Mississippi last fall came more fallout last week: an exodus of professors. Chancellor John D. Williams admitted only 16 resignations, but newsmen discovered about 35 in the works-more than one-third of the professors at Ole Miss...
Dean Monro told the Faculty yesterday that the new rules for the cum laude in General Studies degree have not resulted in a mass exodus from regular departmental honors programs. In fact, he presented figures showing that as of April 25, fewer seniors had dropped honors than last year, although the number of honors candidates has increased eight per cent...