Word: exoduses
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...woods and play hooky from the machine age. In Dubious Battle found him siding with Communist labor organizers, but in Tortilla Flat he sided with an amorally jolly bunch of vagrants and winos. In The Grapes of Wrath he keened over the suffering Okies in their mass exodus, but in The Red Pony he celebrated the vernal innocence of a boy and a colt beyond the reach of civilization's dust bowls. After the '30s, this internal dramatic tension drained out of Steinbeck and his later novels are all rather like Hollywood sets, more to be looked...
...city is a mausoleum--mighty and serene. One could spend hours reciting the mortuary charms of its innumerable cemeteries, with their illustrious dead, which dot the city's main sections as well as its periphery. The flight of industry to the South, the corruption of local politics, and the exodus of the Best People into the suburbs have decisively doomed Boston. But the ashes of a greatness that is gone remain to beguile and delight the summer visitor...
Leon Uris writes Jewish westerns. In Exodus, the good guys were the Zionists, the homesteaders who fought for and founded the new state of Israel. The British and the Arabs were the bad guys, and no cattle rustler could be as sordid as the Arabs, "the dregs of humanity, thieves, murderers, highway robbers, dope runners and white slavers." In Mila 18, there are both good and bad Jews. The bad ones assist the Nazis in the systematic extermination of their fellow Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. The archvillains are the Germans-all cynics, slobs, sycophants and sadists. The hero, Andrei...
...stressed what good friends the Communists were; Economic Czar Che Guevara announced grandly that Cuba has received $245 million in loans from "our socialist friends." and other speakers proclaimed that those same rocket-armed friends could destroy any Western Hemisphere nation with ease. By Ship & by Plane. The great exodus from the unhappy island, momentarily halted by invasion, resumed. In the past two years, some 200,000 frightened, disillusioned or dismayed people have fled into exile. They were Cubans of every class save the clergy, who remained to fight Castro in their own way. Now it was the Roman Catholic...
...great is the exodus that the twice-weekly ferry has been sold out for six weeks ahead. In Havana, the Dutch KLM airline, with an average of 60 seats a week out of Cuba, finally had to lock the doors of its ticket office. Pan American was booked solid into August. As each plane landed in Miami, it was greeted by crowds of anxious exiles, beseeching the new arrivals for word of a brother, a husband, a parent remaining in Cuba...