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Last April, Orchestra Manager John R. Woolford commissioned Martha to compose the dance, with new music by a composer of her own choice. She picked her old collaborator, William Schuman, president of Manhattan's Juilliard School, who wrote the music for her Night Journey three years...
...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...
...program notes explained, for the besieged Israelites whose water supply had been cut off by Holofernes. When she got ready to visit the confident enemy, she stripped off her black "garments of mourning," decked herself with jewels and sidled forth clad in beige "garments of gladness." Composer Schuman's music took on a sinister cast, Dancer Graham a sinuous, Salome-ish look. The final victory dance, after Judith had whacked off the imaginary Holofernean head, was wildly exultant and percussive. So was the 15-minute applause that followed...
...directive, sent to McCloy by the State Department last month, did no more than to codify and sharpen U.S. policy as stated in the Occupation Statute for the West German Republic and the Allied High Commission Charter. It had served as a guide for the recent Acheson-Bevin-Schuman agreements at Paris (TIME, Nov. 21), reiterated the U.S. aim of making West Germany a peaceful, productive and democratic nation, closely "integrated" into the economic fabric of West Europe...
...still largely intact. It was in this category that Germany's main hope of salvage lay. Bevin had grudgingly come around to the view that further dismantling of surplus plants, more than four years after war's end, would serve no useful purpose. France's Robert Schuman hesitantly agreed. If the Allied High Commissioners in their negotiations at Bonn (see above) are satisfied that the Germans will abide by Allied security measures, Western Germany may save most or all of this industrial potential...