Word: disciplinarianism
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...years after college, and weighed down with feelings of hopelessness, Tom heard that therapy was possible for homosexuals and went into treatment with an analyst. His prognosis was good: unlike many homosexuals, he desperately wanted to change. Twice a week for two years he discussed his past: the disciplinarian father who said Tom should have got straight A's when he got only A-minuses; the mother who made Tom her favorite. Gradually, Tom says, "I learned that my homosexuality was a way of handling anxiety. Some men drink. My way was homosexuality...
LOOK up-and anywhere in the U.S. the building, if it is relatively new, and certainly if it is of steel, will bear traces of Mies van der Rohe. In a time of confusion, he was a purist. In an era of innovation, he was a disciplinarian. He found shapes for the new possibilities of glass and steel, and the architecture of the world has never been the same since. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who died in Chicago last week at the age of 83, never realized the extent of his fame. "It is bad to be too famous...
...tend to be chaste and severe rather than fiery or sentimental, with the emphasis on outlining the architectural structure of a work. The sound of the Chicago Symphony was remarkably lustrous and clear under Solti's direction-a tribute, perhaps, to the fact that he is a tough disciplinarian. "The orchestra is already afraid of me," he says, half seriously. "They think I'm some kind of Nazi...
...DISCIPLINARIAN. Violence and rioting have no part in America. They must not be tolerated, and if I am your President they will not be tolerated...
...Markings, Hammarskjold poured out the "true colors" that he was never able to display publicly. Van Dusen finds the explanation in a singularly unhappy childhood. Hammarskjold worshiped his gentle, pious Lutheran mother, from whom he received a conventional religious upbringing. He admired, yet feared, and perhaps hated his stern disciplinarian father, who was Sweden's Prime Minister from 1914 to 1917. As he worked his way through the ranks of his country's civil service, the brooding, lonely man often contemplated suicide. "My life," he wrote darkly, "is worse than death...