Word: martinets
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Keep It in the Family might have been called Bringing Down Father. Father is a tyrannical martinet who stamps on the egos of his wife and children as if they were vermin. The eeriest sight of the evening was watching Patrick Magee's performance as the domineering parent: apparently no one told him that he was no longer playing the mad marquis in last season's Marat Sade...
Eustace Chisholm and the Works is about Amos Ratcliffe, a beautiful bastard who has bedded down with his own mother, and his Chicago landlord, Daniel Haws, a martinet of Indian blood. Daniel can only give expression to his love for Amos when he is walking in his sleep...
...time. Le coach, therefore, put les skiers through an exhaustive and exhausting daily ritual of deep knee bends with 60-lb. sacks of sand on their shoulders, forced them to climb endless flights of stairs, descend innumerable mountains to strengthen thigh muscles. On the slopes, he was the original martinet: barking orders to assistants through a walkie-talkie, charting every speed-slowing bump or hollow, taking the temperature of the snow with a rectal thermometer to be certain that precisely the right amount of wax was on the skis...
...This Time, Of That Place) pits genius against the academic establishment in a story about a moral crisis in the life of a college professor. That the military is an insensitive institution is made plain by William Styron's story of a long march ordered by a Marine martinet, and it is unconsciously funny when measured by the standards of less car-oriented societies in which marching is not considered an ordeal...
Like Genet, John Osborne is nauseated by society, but he is less ambiguous and symbolic, more direct and realistic. There is more than a trace of Captain Bligh in him, except that he is both martinet and mutineer. He reads the riot act to his times in the accents of self-hatred. Bill Maitland says, "I myself am more packed with spite and twitching with revenge than anyone I know of. I actually often, frequently, daily want to see people die for their errors. I wish to kill them myself, to throw the switch with my own fist." There...