Word: disciplinarianism
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...sketched in only with enough completeness to establish them as sympathetic or not, Tanz is fully and compellingly detailed. Looking like "a painting by someone who had tried to capture the essence of heroism," he is nevertheless subject to strange tics and seizures, inexplicable quirks of behavior; a steely disciplinarian, indifferent to the value of individual lives, he displays exemplary courage and single-minded patriotism. Clearly Tanz is meant to be a mythic, archetypal figure--Herr Kirst even goes so far as to suggest that he is "the personification of war"--but he also seems horribly real. Tanz...
...Sixth Fleet (Mediterranean). Bill Ellis is a flyer's flyer, a tough combat pilot who has collected a chestful of ribbons that include the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. The men and officers of the Sixth Fleet can expect a stern disciplinarian and a "hard charger." In fact, says one fellow officer ruefully, "He charges so hard sometimes that he steps on the feet of his subordinates...
...Tanganyika's Tabora Secondary School, he got good grades and was converted to Roman Catholicism, but never made "head boy"-his teachers found him not enough of a disciplinarian. At Uganda's Makerere University, he won first prize in the regional literary competition. His essay: an application of John Stuart Mill's arguments for feminism to the tribal societies of Tanganyika. After three years of teaching biology, he won a scholarship to Edinburgh, and in 1949 became the first Tanganyikan ever to study...
Griffith, for whom she played in Hearts of the World as well as Orphans, was Miss Gish's favorite director. A strict disciplinarian, he was a bad stage actor before he took up directing. "He was marvellous because he exaggerated movements in demonstrating the action. This exaggeration showed the mental attitude he wanted from the actor in every situation...
...father Elliott, a jolly man, a big-game hunter and a younger brother of Teddy Roosevelt. He called her "Little Nell." But he died, with alcoholism as a contributing cause, when she was nine. Eleanor went to live with her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Valentine Hall, a stern disciplinarian. She was horribly unhappy until she went off to a French finishing school in England. There she came to recognize her own mental powers. "More and more," she recalled, "I used the quickness of my mind to pick the minds of other people and use their knowledge...