Word: exoduses
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High & Low Life. In the face of a population decline in many central cities, the mayors and city planners are working hard to lure back suburban defectors-and head off any further exodus. "There is a great disenchantment with the suburbs," says New York's Mayor Wagner. "Many people are moving back to town." To attract them, Chicago is planning the construction of 50,000 new dwelling units in the heart of the city by 1980, has already cast at least one spectacular lure: the 65-story, twin-towered Marina City, with pie-wedge apartments and balconies with...
...earlier and more specific Biblical reference to tithing than the Exodus one is Genesis 28:22. After Jacob's dream, in which God offers him prosperity and guidance, Jacob promises that if God be with him, "I will surely give the tenth unto thee...
...Tenth of the Harvest. Historically the tithe meant the first tenth of the harvest that was offered up to God. In Exodus, God tells Moses: "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits." Church councils until early modern times regarded tithing as part of divine...
...member of a less than affluent monas tic community whose school enjoys only a regional reputation, may I voice a quiet demurrer to the notion that monasticism in the 20th century is likely to solve the ancient antinomy, action-contemplation, by the efforts of pressagent monks or by an exodus from our monasteries to search for activity in the world at large...
...produce, the peasants in effect were voting against Ulbricht with their plows, just as the masses of escaping East Germans (3,500,000, or 20% of the population since 1945) had voted against him with their feet. The Berlin Wall has sharply curbed but not entirely halted the exodus from East Germany; about 1,500 a month still manage to flee. Ulbricht publicly admitted last week that the purpose of the Wall had been to halt the flight and its debilitating effects on the East German economy. In a revealing year-end article in Moscow's Pravda, he tried...