Word: exodusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visitor," wrote Frankel, "notes the absence of youngsters, at the movies and in the streets, even before he hears a sociological explanation for their exodus: they aspire to assimilation, to opportunity alongside the Russians. They might rebel against Yiddish culture even if it were sanctioned...
FICTION 1. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1 )* 2. Exodus, Uris (2) 3. Lolita, Nabokov (4) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 5. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6) 6. From the Terrace, O'Hara (7) 7. Mountolive, Durrell 8. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence 9. Trumbull Park, Brown 10. Four Stories, Undset NONFICTION 1. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (1) 2. Only in America, Golden (2) 3. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (5) 4. What We Must Know About Com munism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (3) 5. How I Turned $1,000 into...
...Exodus, Uris...
...products. Then, two hours before dusk, the men, in red tarbooshes and starched, white, ankle-length robes, will assemble around a shallow trench. Chanting the Pentateuch and ancient Hebrew prayers, they will wait until dusk, then bring the lambs to the edge of the trench and cut their throats (Exodus 12:6). Fathers will mark the foreheads of their first-born sons with blood. The priests will hand around bitter herbs and unleavened bread. The slaughtered lambs will be cooked. Facing the summit of the mountain, the priests will chant with mounting fervor as the Samaritans squat or kneel...
Jews are commemorating Passover with chanted prayers and symbolic foods-the bitter herbs, the salt, the unleavened bread. But on one high mountain, near Jerusalem, another people keep their Passover just as the Lord commanded Moses in the Book of Exodus, with the blood of lambs "without blemish" which are eaten in haste, loins girded for the sudden flight. These are the Samaritans...