Word: apocrypha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...premiere last week by the Houston Grand Opera. Floyd, 49, has written successful operas from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, but is best known for Susannah, a retelling of the biblical story of Susanna and the elders from the Apocrypha. Since its first performance by the New York City Opera in 1956, Susannah has become the most frequently performed full-length American opera written since World...
...that preserves the literary strength of the King James, with updated wording and changes based on more authentic texts. It is under continuing revision, with the next likely change to be elimination of "thee" and "thou" when addressing the Deity. Widely accepted (35 million in print) and available with Apocrypha for Catholics and Eastern Orthodox...
...ENGLISH BIBLE (1970). An elegant, churchly, yet readable British version under Anglican-Protestant auspices, drawn from ancient texts without depending on previous translations. Apocrypha available...
...time in believing that a President should set some time aside for sex." On this titillating note, Gossipmonger Earl Wilson proceeds in his forthcoming book Show Business Laid Bare to reveal a "dalliance" between President John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. With details drawn mostly from the deathbed apocrypha that surround the star's suicide in 1962, Wilson constructs a labyrinthine scenario that shuttles Kennedy and Monroe round the country, juggling dark glasses, wigs and stand-ins to cover their trysts. Even Monroe's last words were about Kennedy, claims Wilson. Kennedy's brother-in-law Peter...
...even and soft. "I am St. Joseph," the voice says. "There has been no one like this child [Mrs. K.] except when the son walked the land. I, St. Joseph, will tell you things you have never known." Then, instead of some horrific revelation, comes a homey bit of apocrypha from the saint, telling how the Holy Family rushed away from the dinner table one evening to aid a neighbor in distress, only to find the man unharmed when they arrived. "My son stood behind us with a big smile because he knew when we left the table that...