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Auxiliary. A guerrilla who has joined the government side, or a black who has been recruited as a counterinsurgent by one of the pro-government nationalist parties. Known in a Shona dialect as a Pfumo reVanhu (spear of the nation...
...would have to file reports to COWPS showing that their price rises were being kept within the prescribed limits. Offenders would first be warned privately by COWPS. If that did not work, they would be publicly denounced-in extreme cases by Alfred Kahn, who is Carter's chief spear carrier against inflation...
Though these programs only affect residential customers, who use 30 per cent of the energy produced by the T.V.A., they presage a turning from nonrenewable, polluting sources of energy. They are a spear in the cyclops...
...which students progress from the study and practice of poetic realism (Chekhov, Ibsen) to Shakespearean verse-speaking with increased physical stylization, to the total vocal and physical stylization demanded by the post-modernists (Brecht, Beckett, Handke). Along the way, students are gradually mixed into Yale Repertory productions, beginning as spear-carriers and moving up to understudy positions and major roles. Another innovation was the creation of two majors: Theater Management and Dramatic Criticism. The latter included courses in "Dramaturgy," the graduate acting as a built-in theater critic, hired by regional companies as a literary and artistic advisor...
Eventually he finds Arthur (Marc Eyraud), who is in a sulk because the Red Knight is trying to seize his land. Perceval puts a spear through the fellow's eye, and Arthur dubs him the new Red Knight. Various adventures follow, with Perceval rescuing maidens, downing oppressors and entering enchanted houses. Invariably, however, he misconstrues good advice. When he does see the Holy Grail, he does not recognize it or ask about it, having been told by a wise old man that a good knight keeps his mouth shut. For that error he is cursed. He has become...