Word: exoduses
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...Exodus...
Last week the biggest English-language library in any non-English-speaking country was aswarm with Parisians back in town from their annual August exodus. Started with the collection set up by the American Library Association for the doughboys of World War I, the library now has some 100,000 books, is largely supported by a paying membership of 3,000 (60% Frenchmen). The library managed to stay open during the German occupation of World War II, is now so efficient that many French graduate students prefer its accessible shelves to the musty stacks of Paris libraries. It recently provided...
...make fire without matches, proclaim that they were trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. An occasional adult scoutmaster complained. "The man in charge of a group of boy hikers," wrote one, "has somewhat the same problems that faced Moses in managing the Exodus. There is a similar effort involved in keeping up morale and discipline. There is the same need to dispel almost universal fear of death from thirst or privation. There are those brave, tragic figures who collapse by the side of the road and gasp: 'Go on without...
...cramped old birthplace (founded 1638) new pride in something more than its elm trees, Yankee traditions and Yale University. Firmly scuttling nostalgia ("Our greatness lies in the future"), Lee has put New Haven foremost among New England cities in striking at the illnesses that plague all U.S. municipalities: the exodus to the suburbs, slum growth, downtown decline...
...libretto prescribed a cast of hundreds, including 70 elders, four "naked virgins," "dancers, supernumeraries of all kinds," and a golden calf. Vienna-born Composer Schoenberg's preoccupation with the Biblical story of Exodus paralleled his indignation at growing Naziism in Germany, his brooding about the Jews' new exodus. The opera's first and third acts are dominated by a philosophical dialogue between Moses and Aaron; Moses only speaks his part-a sign that, unlike the, glib, singing Aaron, the word fails him. Schoenberg etches the contrast between the hard but true faith of Moses and Aaron...