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...ever heard of a 30-year-old composer from South Carolina named Carlisle Floyd? The Manhattan premiere of his Susannah seemed chancy, even though the opera was based on the titillating apocryphal story of Susanna and the Elders. And so first-nighters stayed away from the New York City Opera in droves -and missed the discovery of a composer who promises to become the new GianCarlo Menotti...
...Susannah proved to be a relentless but gripping tragedy of man's inhumanity to man. The scene is New Hope Valley, Tenn.; the time, today. An evangelist arrives in town with the intention of saving a passel of souls. Town elders go into the woods to find a suitable baptismal stream, are suddenly thunderstruck to see Susannah bathing in the altogether. This vision is enough to convince them that the girl is possessed of the devil, and that it is everybody's duty to cleanse...
...Radcliffe Volunteer Service Organization, an affiliate of P.B.H., elected Marcia E. McCuaig '57 president and Susannah S. Alden '57 vice president for next year. Both live in Briggs Hall...
...Susannah Martin, the Salem fathers believed, was every inch a witch. She sent the devil into cattle, raised phantom puppies and came into the house dry out of a drenching rainstorm. She was therefore hanged on Gallows Hill in 1692, the year of the great Salem witch trials...
Last week, acting on the petition presented by a descendant of Ann Greenslade Pudeator, another victim of Salem's witch-hunting elders, the Massachusetts House of Representatives approved a bill reversing the convictions of Ann, Susannah and four other women-Bridget Bishop, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott, Wilmot Reed-who were hanged for witchcraft...