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Mother was a coldly sadistic disciplinarian. Father was a well-intentioned fuddy-dud. Except for the fact that Father was also a judge, the story sounds like the childhood of thousands of people who end up in psychiatrists' offices. But Bill Sands ended up not on a couch but on "the Shelf"-jailbird slang for the solitary-confinement cells at San Quentin prison. Before he was 21, Sands was serving time on three convictions for armed robbery, with sentences in each of from one year to life, and had won a reputation as a con so "solid" that...
...Port Arthur, Texas, of German and Cherokee Indian parentage, Rauschenberg served as a naval corpsman until the end of World War II. A talent for sketching led him to the Kansas City Art Institute, then on to Paris. In 1948 he read in TIME that the greatest art disciplinarian in the U.S. was Josef Albers, and returned to study with him at North Carolina's Black Mountain College. "I consider Albers the most important teacher I've ever had," says Rauschenberg, "and I'm sure he considers me one of his poorest students." Albers says he wasn...
...fight better for his country than any mercenary. One such is Colonel Leonard Mulamba of the government forces, commander of the garrison that fought off the bloody rebel invasion of Bukavu and gave the Congolese army something it could be proud of for a change. Mulamba, a tough disciplinarian who got his training as an adjutant in the Belgian Congo Force Publique, last week tried to turn his victory into a springboard for reform...
Strange Obsession. But eventually Prescott's detractors have their say. On the surface the old man is all assurance and firm faith, but Auchincloss neatly reveals, bit by bit, how forced that faith is. Prescott is a ferocious disciplinarian and moralist in order to cover his own numerous anxieties. He is strangely obsessed, for instance, with homosexuality. He encourages vicious hazing to make the boys "tough." All play is aggressively organized, and Prescott will not let the boys wander off anywhere in pairs. "I did not think a hundred examples of David and Jonathan were worth one of sodomy...
Sure they fight, but all parents do. A sharp comment, considering the source. Elsewhere parents appear with stunning accuracy as the oddly permissive disciplinarian...