Word: oberammergau
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...contention of Italian Novelist Carlo Coccioli that both events-Passion and Passion play-had an identical reality for the witnesses. In the modern world, argues Coccioli, an Oberammergau can only be a charade; since the Middle Ages, it is only in a place like Indian Mexico, with its hallucinatory sense of time, where past and present are meaningless, that the supernatural can be accepted as reality and the actual world as an illusion...
Born. To Nancy Oakes, 31, daughter of the late Sir Harry Oakes and ex-wife of Count Alfred de Marigny, who was acquitted in 1943 of the murder of his father-in-law in Nassau, and Baron Ernst Lyssard von Hoyningen Huene, 25, of Oberammergau, Germany: their first child, a son; in Nassau, Bahama...
...chorusing praise for British Star Alec Guinness and Actress Irene Worth, the Canadian cast, and the direction of Tyrone Guthrie, from London's Old Vic. Wrote Author Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat, a guest critic for the Ottawa Citizen: "You can rate [it] with . . . the Passion Play at Oberammergau or with the yearly season of plays at Stratford on Avon." The New York Times's Brooks Atkinson called the festival "a genuine contribution to Shakespeare...
...Southern Germany, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy was among 5,000 visitors who watched the first performance in 16 years of Oberammergau's Passion Play. In some ways it was like old times in the little Bavarian village. Most notable modern touch: the white-helmeted U.S. MPs roaring through the narrow streets on motorcycles...
...Communist sympathizers. Last week, a tenth of them joined in a moving re-enactment of the sufferings of Christ. For the first time since the war, Sezze had decided to revive the passion play that had been its tradition for over 700 years. Unlike the world-famed performance at Oberammergau, Sezze's passion play is performed in the streets of the village by 1,500 of its citizens...