Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover*) In the Bavarian village of Oberammergau, the social register is the Holy Bible. Rising young men aspire to be Peter or John or Joseph, the more self-confident of them have even thought of being Jesus himself-in the hallowed Passion Play, which has been presented in Oberammergau since 1634. In 1633 the inhabitants promised God that thereafter, once every ten years, they would dramatize the last earthly days of Christ, if only Heaven would check the Black Plague whose dark miasma had penetrated even into the Bavarian Alps...
...woodcarvers who combine medieval craftsmanship with modern salesmanship, who ship their whittlings all over the world. Over the town looms the jagged Kofel peak; in the town a bearded newsboy, attired in plus fours, sells his papers from a motorcycle. It is a town of anachronisms but the Passion Play is still its overtone...
Last week Oberammergau was ready to present the Passion Play again, beginning May 11, with 32 regular and 34 supplemental performances planned to accommodate some 300,000 visitors throughout the summer. Most of the small boys were groomed for supernumeraries, had let their hair grow until it tumbled about their shoulders. Almost every house was swept and scoured, its spare rooms prepared for visitors. Everyone who attends the Passion Play (admission $5) has to pay $11 or $12 for two nights' lodging whether he remains or not. During the Play season practically every Oberammergau home is also a pension...
...votes, thereafter understudied Anton Lang. He is elegantly mannered, confident, magnetic. He keeps 40 hives of bees, likes to smoke and drink beer with the Apostles at the Hotel Alte Post. He carves innumerable wooden Christs, and exhibits no false modesty about his exalted position in the Passion Play. No one is happier in Oberammergau than his stout, simple wife, who might easily be mistaken for his mother. Some villagers will tell you that the hair of Alois Lang owes its luxuriant curliness to a permanent wave...
...Moved the Stone?" is a sympathetic and intelligent study of the events of the latter half of Passion Week, and, working on a firm historical and biblical foundation, Mr. Morison proceeds by deductive reasoning to solve the mystery of the stone. At times the story is intensely absorbing, then again it becomes dull because of the slow and pedantic mauncy in which the answer is finally reached. The author is too much of a scholar to keep up the vivid and interesting style of the early chapters...