Word: disciplinarianism
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...peasant, Park was educated in a rigidly disciplinarian Japanese military academy in the pre-1945 years when Japan was still the colonial ruler of Korea. Profoundly influenced by Japan's passionate prewar brand of patriotism, Park transformed it into a fervent allegiance to Korea. He joined the new Korean army in 1946 and enjoyed a swift rise, interrupted only once, in 1948; ironically, for so militant an antiCommunist, he was tried and acquitted of being a Communist agent...
Bertolt Brecht had a stubborn faith that the task of drama was to prevent history from repeating itself. In the theater, he often seems like a classroom disciplinarian who is chalking out cautionary lessons on a blackboard...
...living in Switzerland made him miserable. He was lonely and he's never played as poorly as he did under Rostal. "I was overwhelmed by his reputation, by his caliber. I wasn't sure if I could face up to his standards. He's a very authoritarian teacher, a disciplinarian, who believes there is only one way to play a piece--his way--whereas Silverstein allows for personal interpretation. It was a bad time for me. I was realizing I didn't know what I was doing...
...night, go to the office early the next morning, send for a change of clothes, and then take off again. He was missing the best part of his children's lives." Two of their four children had reached their teens, and Betty had to act as counselor and disciplinarian. Ford turned up for his sons' football games, but that was about it. He missed the midweek scrimmages, when the boys would break legs and collar bones. Says Betty: "There was a time when the car would automatically find its way to the emergency room of the hospital...
Nancy Foreman, George's mother, supported the family and was a harsh disciplinarian to her seven children. "I didn't spare the rod," she says. "I whipped good. I'd get off at 10 o'clock and sometimes I'd whip the rest of the night. Sometimes I took that long to straighten...