Word: passionately
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Last fortnight was election week in Oberammergau, Germany. But not for a mayor, police chief or sheriff did the citizens vote. Pious and thoughtful, a committee representing all the citizens met to elect a new cast for their world-famed Passion Play in which the entire village takes part...
...Oberammergau Passion Play, first acted in 1634 in gratitude for the cessation of the Black Death, was to be given every ten years. In 1674 the date was changed to fall on decimal years. The World War postponed the 1920 production until...
...last act. Having convinced his fastidious, fortunate descendants that all the family, including Antonon, who is a truck-gardener and Gabriella, who has borne an illegitimate child, should attend his party, having seen his own joy permeate and weld the lot, his last wish is gratified by the budding passion of his great-grandchildren Trino and Currita, which allows him to hope that he will live to fondle his first great-great-grandchild...
Later the wife discovers her husband at close quarters with a lady from next door. Surfeited with his infidelity and his philosophy-"You have all my love, but not all my passion"-she lures the golf champion to her bedroom to expunge her love for her husband from her heart. This rash maneuver is not very convincing, but it does give pith to the advertisement which appeared last week in all Manhattan theatre programs: "What you think of this play may start an interesting discussion. Talk it out over a big plate of HORTON'S ICE CREAM...
...another." Hardened and harsh was King David when he spoke these words to the messenger who told him that Uriah, husband of Bathsheba, had been slain as planned. But from the new Bible is missing the whole chapter that describes the unhappy King's brief interlude of passion with Bathsheba that lush spring when he tarried in Jerusalem although it was "the time when Kings go forth to battle." Without this tale is lost one of the most important psychological links in the evolution of David from the young idealist who befriended Jonathan into the almost fanatical writer...