Word: martinet
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...antagonist is Colonel Barrow, a nervous and insecure officer of university background who has been gazetted commanding officer of the Highland battalion over his less educated compatriot's head. John Mills, who always adds a superior performance to his acting credits, steals the show from Guinness as this chilly martinet, a man you cannot love, but with whom you feel obliged to sympathize. Neither Sinclair nor Barrow is a particularly pleasant character, but at least the latter has an excuse for being both stubborn and conciliating, commendable and pathetic--he has undergone torture in a World War II prison camp...
...critics were baiting their prodigy traps. After he made his November debut with the Metropolitan Opera they sprang: "hand to mouth" conducting said one, adding that Maazel is a martinet whose merciless, metronomic beat is in fact, a mask that covers weakness and insecurity. Such talk may have momentarily quieted Maazel, but it did not shake his confidence. Last week at Philharmonic Hall, he led a Beethoven Fifth Symphony in which fate really did seem to knock at the door; under Maazel. the horns spoke high German, and the double basses, which before had hidden shyly in the hall...
Such exposes have naturally endeared the Overseas Weekly to enlisted men abroad, and circulation has risen to 50,000. Along with reports on martinet officers go eye-popping pinup pictures of bosom and thigh, twelve pages of colored comics, and a news emphasis on murder, rape and other G.I. crimes. "It depresses me to read that paper." said one jaded subscriber. "Man, everybody in it is either dead or dying or going to Leavenworth...
Sternberg's task was to build Rath's character and then to destroy it. Two brief classroom sequences establish him as an orderly and pompous martinet. In both scenes, Janning strides into the room, sits down and blows his nose into a carefully folded handkerchief as if the whole process were a ritual allowed no deviation from a prescribed pattern...
Tunes of Glory. A superior piece of entertainment, thanks to brilliant performances by Alec Guinness as an up-from-the-ranks Scottish colonel waging the internecine peace of barracks life, and John Mills as a fatally weak martinet...