Word: oberammergau
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...medics to feed anti-VD pills to prostitutes. A Roman Catholic, he urged his men to go to church: "I think we all need a lot of divine assistance." He also encouraged them to go, toting cameras, to such uplifting places as the Parthenon, the Holy Land and the Oberammergau Passion Play. Since Anderson hates profanity, his was the Navy's sweetest-talking fleet (at least when he was on the premises...
Passion Play Sir: Hang TIME ! Most obviously you forgot that the people of Oberammergau are devotedly fulfilling a promise to God that their ancestors made centuries back. In the 1600s, when the Black Plague was sweeping the country, killing thousands, the people of this village turned to their only help-they dropped to their knees and promised God that if the plague was spared them, they would present the drama of the Christ's Passion every ten years. This is what they are doing. They aren't striving for the perfection of Hollywood with all its top stars...
...OBERAMMERGAU, MEIN ACHING BACK...
After Intermission. But anti-Semitism was only the beginning of the Passion Play's troubles. As drama "it is a mixture of Lourdes and summer stock," said a perspicacious lady from Philadelphia last week, and at least ten years of rewriting seem required. Oberammergau has just enough time for that, is meanwhile tithing a catch of visitors whose total will have reached half a million when the show closes on the last day of September...
Expecting to take in some $5,000,000, Oberammergau's humble townsfolk are selling everything from machine-carved angels to toilet privileges. Life-sized wooden saints go for $1,000. Beggars, who used to count on the Crucifixion scene to cause spectators to empty their pockets in compassion, have long since been driven away by green-coated police, as if to ensure that every pfennig spent in Oberammergau stays in town. Charges have been established with great ingenuity for nearly every action a visitor makes while he is there, with one exception: no way has been devised to shake...