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Even the warning that a concert is about to begin isn’t the usual docile bells, but a spreading roar of electronics from “Répons” by Pierre Boulez, a tutelary spirit here for decades.

By systemically violating these criteria, and possibly a fourth — "elected authorities possess real authority to govern, in that they are not subject to the tutelary authority of military or clerical leaders" — competitive authoritarian regimes seek to maintain the general appearance of being democracy-like in order to claim legitimacy, but without practicing actual, substantive democracy.

James, who will show up briefly in “Mangrove,” played by Derek Griffiths as a kind of tutelary theoretical deity.

“It seems clear that the military continues to have this idea of itself as a tutelary force in politics.”

It is an industry presided over by formidable ghosts, maestros and tutelary deities: Krzystof Kieslowski, Andrzej Wajda, Andzrej Żuławski, Andrzej Munk and Walerian Borowczyk.