Word: servant
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...existence of a private sphere is one of the sacrosanct tenets of a healthy liberal democracy. Yet while the average American considers his bedroom a sancto sanctorum, he doesn’t hesitate to deny the public servant the same privilege. If we reserved as much moral indignation for serious issues—like our engagement in a senseless and costly war—as we do for our politicians’ sexual peccadilloes, things might not be going so badly...
...spoke of "civilians in suits and silk ties." When he mentioned the military, he spoke of "generals with mud and blood on their boots." He railed against the "Washington-to-Wall Street power axis," and said a President is "not elected to the ruling class but to the servant class." He could weave the story of his son cooking a cake with too much salt into a parable about the perils of gay marriage. He could perfectly capture the struggles of Mitt Romney's campaign with a joke about expensive dog food. The punch line: "The dogs...
...centrality of Fatima to the second, "suffering servant" stage of John Paul II's papacy, and his involvement with the two men who would become the Vatican's numbers one and two after his death, may help explain why Lucia's cause has been fast-tracked for beatification. Of course, there are other reasons: Fatima still receives 5 million pilgrims a year, and there is no real downside in pleasing them. And since the Vatican had already carefully vetted the circumstances of Fatima to beatify Lucia's two companions, how much more work need be done to establish the heroic...
...role,” Williams wrote in the e-mail, “and not one with dialogue, but it is nonetheless crucial. Please let me know if you can help—we would all be extremely grateful.” The role was that of a servant, and the directors wanted him to be black. “It was on a quick, quick time deadline,” Williams says. “I figured the fastest way to get at a pool of actors was to email BlackCAST directly instead of sending indiscriminate mass emails...
...will run at the A.R.T. until March 16, Nauzyciel modernizes the fight for democracy and political power in ancient Rome by allowing the audience to connect the themes of this 400-year-old play to issues facing our community and country today. Most significantly, Nauzyciel elevates Brutus’ servant Lucius from a small role to the focus of the production, transforming him into a deaf-mute boy who sees the play’s characters, already dead, reenacting their lives in his dreams. Lucius remains onstage for the entirety of the performance, sometimes watching passively and occasionally reacting vigorously...