Word: apocrypha
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...read; in fact a legend." Yet there can be little doubt, especially when page after page of Waugh's sky-blue prose goes purple with emotion, that the author intended his legend to be literature-a lovingly wrought story that would take its place in the Christian Apocrypha...
Then, intense little Dancer Graham, 47, set about pondering "why I should appear on a stage with a symphony orchestra in the background instead of in the pit." She decided to compose herself a solo on the story, from the fourth book of the Apocrypha, of Judith, who delivered the Israelites from the siege of Nebuchadnezzar by charming his chief general, Holofernes, and then lopping off his head. Composer Schuman set to work on a score...