Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years No. 8 Schleichstrasse was like any other house on the suburban Bonn hillside called Venusberg. Everything was always spick-and-span, and from the kitchen came the odor of Bavarian stew. No. 8's occupant, a chubby, rumpled man with pink bulging face and bulging briefcase, went to the office each morning, returned each evening, like so many hard-working businessmen of the district...
...Many People." Anton Obermayer, a 75-year-old Bavarian-born brewmaster, plans to take the service, too, but he will use it only on a limited basis. He is proudly self-sufficient. He built his own home, cabinets and furniture, grows his own vegetables. His wife Mary Monica, 74, makes her own soap. "When I came here in 1917," says Obermayer, "it was a wilderness. It is not so good now. There are too many people, and they are making too many roads. They kill all the animals. Oh, well, when electricity comes, we will get an electric stove...
...Rabbit Race, one of three plays featured at the recent Edinburgh Festical of Music and Drama, records the hyprocrisy of a small Bavarian community as they struggle to ride the varying political winds since World War II. With only slight hesitation, they shift course and run before Nazism, fear of Nazism, total pacification, and anti-communist militancy. Serving as a foil to the townspeople is Alois Grubel, a one-time syndicalist, who has been made simple, sterile, and soprano during his stay in a concentration camp. There are two Aloises, one wishing only to breed rabbits and sing...
...life story is obscure. It is not even known for sure whether he was German, Italian or Swiss by birth. One of the few firmly established details of biography is the date of his death: April 18, 1763. In observance of the bicentennial of his death, Munich's Bavarian National Museum is displaying a complete collection of his work-102 figurines...
...advertisements in West German newspapers. "Or why is it that you must stop and rest halfway, with your heart beating in your throat?" The answer, according to the ad, is not to take the elevator but to take the cure at Bad Tölz, a gemütlich Bavarian spa* where "a new, particularly iodine-rich spring gives your blood vessels elasticity, your heart strength, your nerves fresh vigor." Like all the 140 officially recognized watering places in West Germany, Bad Tölz is itself in the pink of condition, thanks to a booming health cult that...