The new "Aida," which will be directed by the Iranian-born artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat, may differ from the parading-elephants-and-spear-carriers spectacles of the past.
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I wanted to do a show called "Spear Carriers," which would actually be set during the events of "Game of Thrones," but it wouldn't be following Dany, Tyrion and Jaime.
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Moreover, if they should stumble, they can fall back on "wingnut welfare," the array of positions at right-wing media organizations, think tanks and so on that are always there for loyal spear carriers.
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"I don't see that these are shrinking violets who are going to be spear carriers for him," said Roger Noriega, the former assistant secretary of State for the western hemisphere, who had criticized Trump during the campaign.
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Last week came the administration's own unsettling proposals, announced by David Bernhardt, the deputy secretary of the Interior Department and one of several spear carriers for the oil and gas industry who have risen to commanding policymaking roles under Interior's boss, Ryan Zinke.
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There was something particularly timely about reading this careful, lawyerly opinion at the moment when the Trump administration's effort to pack the federal courts with young and underqualified ideological spear carriers was put on pause by alarmed members of the president's own party.
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Small opera might sound like an oxymoron to people whose idea of the art form is rooted in stagings of Wagner's "Ring" cycle or Verdi's "Aida" as Cecil B. DeMille-worthy spectacles with huge orchestras, big choruses, legions of spear carriers and even large animals.
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Her moral world has broadened to include the Tinterans as people, rather than faceless spear carriers to be used and discarded. Thus she cannot bring herself to condemn the Tinterans en masse. However, under the leadership of Mia's father, who perceives the Tinterans as beyond re- education, the Assembly votes by an eight-to-five margin to destroy Tintera in the name of 'moral discipline'. Mia and Jimmy, as adults, prepare to settle into their own living quarters on board Ship.
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The setting is Warsaw, Poland, just before the 1939 Nazi Germany invasion. The well-known stars of a Warsaw theater company, "ham" actor Josef Tura (Jack Benny) and his beautiful wife, Maria (Carole Lombard), along with the rest of the company, are rehearsing "Gestapo", a play satirizing the Nazis. One of the actors, Bronski (Tom Dugan), even proves that he can pass for Hitler in the street. That night, when the company is performing Shakespeare's Hamlet, with Tura in the title role, Bronski commiserates with friend and colleague, Greenberg (Felix Bressart), about being limited to being spear carriers.
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By the time William Staniforth took control, the tool trade was moving to machine based manufacture rather than hand smithing, and for the first time an outside partner was brought in to run the company. John Hibbard (1846–1923) of a prominent family from Woodhouse, Sheffield was brought in to partner with William. Shortly following this partnership William died in 1900 after gradually losing control of the company.Sicklesmiths & Spear Carriers by Rosamund Du Cane The Grade II listed Greenside House is located next door to the workshops and was also occupied by the Staniforth family for centuries.
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See the text of the play, available on Wikisource, the description for this scene reads "Priests and Boys around it in the attitude of suppliants." And in Antigone also on Wikisource, "The same as in Oedipus the King." The term has survived verbatim but evolved in meaning from its metaphorical use, and today carries the general meaning of satellite in Modern Greek.www.greek-language.gr definition The 1968 Nebula Award-winning novel Rite of Passage, by Alexei Panshin, mentions the protagonist's observations of the role of spear carriers in real life: > A spear carrier is somebody who stands in the hall when Caesar passes, comes > to attention and thumps his spear.
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Tree was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, the son of theatre critic Alan Parsons and actress Viola Tree, the daughter of renowned Victorian actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. The young performer's first exposure to the stage came at the age of six, when he played a bear in his mother's 1921 revival of The Tempest at the Aldwych Theatre in London and continued through his childhood years, as exemplified by his portrayal, at eleven-and-a-half, of Lieutenant Spicer in a January 1927 juvenile production of Quality Street. Taking as his stage name the famous surname from his mother's side of the family, he spent a year studying drama at the Old Vic where, in his words, he "played spear carriers and said 'Hail Caesar!' a lot", such as in September 1934's production of Antony and Cleopatra.Brownlow, Kevin.
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In the world of opera, the term is sometimes used literally: When a male chorus is required, as in Aida, for example, the onstage "army", armed with spears or swords, usually consists of several singers and as many who remain silent, filling out the group. The silent ones are known as spear carriers, to differentiate them from the male chorus members. The Ancient Greek term for spear carrier (δορυφόρος doryphóros, from δόρυ, "spear," and φέρω, "to carry") originally meant a soldier armed with a spear acting as a bodyguard or ceremonial guard to noblemen. The modern meaning has its roots in classical Greek tragedy; as plays such as Antigone and Oedipus Rex concerned the tragic fate of nobles, several nondescript soldiers or guards were required to appear in the background, and the term was used to describe the guards who just escorted the main characters.
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