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Inspired by Gscheidle's revolutionary idea, the finance ministry of Bavaria recently issued a 24-page booklet to its civil servants titled Behörde und Bürger, (Authorities and Citizens). A kind of Emily Post primer for bureaucrats, it offers the provocative thought that bureaucracy is a public service for the benefit of West German citizens. It suggests that civil servants should try to put themselves in their clients' place. Avoid bawling out citizens for making mistakes on application forms, advises the booklet. Try to understand that they do not know all laws...
...public response to this onslaught of civility in the civil service has been mild astonishment-and gratitude. One woman, flabbergasted as a solicitous postal employee repacked a badly parceled piece of mail, could only stammer, "Danke, danke." In Bavaria, a local department store took Behörde und Bürger to heart and started its own courtesy campaign. The wave of Teutonic tact even seems to be paying dividends for the civil servants. Says one graduate of the postal service deportment course: "Somehow, I feel much less insecure...
Despite the Nazi Holocaust, the Oberammergau Passion Play, Bavaria's decennial Catholic folk pageant, has gone on using an 1860 text that portrays Jews as Shylocks and Christ killers. Since the Second Vatican Council's denunciation of antiSemitism, however, a group of townspeople led by Head Woodcarver Hans Schwaighofer has been agitating to dump the lurid script. Last year Schwaighofer's group staged a trial run of a 1750 version that makes Satan the heavy and, like the New Testament, portrays the Jews as divided over Jesus. In February the town council voted to use that version...
...universal redemption. For as long as I live, I shall be thrilled by all those who came to the Promised Land to turn it either into a pastoral paradise of egalitarian Tolstoyan communes, or into a well-educated, middle-class Central European enclave, a replica of Austria and Bavaria...
Seawell insists there will be sufficient money. Heaven knows he is no mad builder like Ludwig II of Bavaria. The center's theater building, now under construction, will almost comply with Moliere's notion that all drama needs is a platform and a passion or two. It will house three theaters, none with a conventional proscenium. Seawell called in Gordon Davidson of Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum as consultant. He has come up with a plan to ally his own successful theater with Denver's troupe to be. "Time is the hardest thing to buy," says...