He was outspoken and stubborn, a strict disciplinarian and brutally hard taskmaster.
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"He's a very hard taskmaster even as party president," political analyst Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay said.
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"Feldstein was a smart editor, but he was a hard taskmaster," Al Jaffee, the cartoonist who, at 97, still devises Mad's back-page fold-ins, said in a telephone interview.
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"The defense never contested that Don Blankenship could be blunt and a hard taskmaster, but the truth is that he cares deeply about his family, his community and the people who worked for him," his lawyer said in his own sentencing memo.
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The John Barry Seven (JB7) appeared on British TV shows such as Six-Five Special and Oh Boy! during 1957 and 1958, but discontent began spreading through the band. Jack Good proved to be a hard taskmaster on Oh Boy! Rehearsals were lengthy, intense and arduous to perfect what was a fast-paced show.
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Raedler also decided that her company would use American stage diction, rather than British, and attractive actors, to cater to her audiences. Like Gilbert, Raedler was known as a hard taskmaster in rehearsals and an exacting director. For this first tour, Raedler renamed the company American Savoyards. The first shows on tour were The Mikado and Patience.
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Journalist Pat Murphy described McGarry as a "fearsome character when crossed" who was a "hard taskmaster". Murphy and Alan Oliver both noted that McGarry could often give journalists a hard time. Former Wolves player Kenny Hibbitt said that "I didn't necessarily like him, but I respected him." He also instigated rules on players diet, long before the trend became standard practice within the footballing world.
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He worked in New York City as an investment banker. In 1933, Thompson became a financier, co-founding Thompson and Taylor, which took control of a number of steelmakers in the Great Depression, including the Pittsburgh Spring Steel Company and the Pittsburgh Steel Foundry Company. In 1945, he was in charge of four steel companies. David Rockefeller called him, "a hard taskmaster and a tough negotiator".
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He employed a harsh and rigorous style of coaching, saying, "I was a hard taskmaster, and although my advice was always well intentioned, my criticisms were at times severe, and occasionally intemperate." Both of Lenglen's parents often watched her matches and discussed minute errors in her game between themselves throughout the match. They only showed restraint in their criticisms when she was sick, leading to Lenglen becoming comfortable with being ill.
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2011 According to Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz, Ford, a notoriously hard taskmaster, was especially hard on Wayne, who did not serve in the armed forces. During production, Ford fell from a scaffolding and broke his leg. He turned to Montgomery, who had actually commanded a PT boat, to temporarily take over for him as director. Montgomery did so well that within a few years he began directing films.
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He did not conduct opera there again until 1954, with Walton's Troilus and Cressida,The Times obituary notice, 4 October 1967, p. 12 although he did conduct the incidental music for a dramatisation of The Pilgrim's Progress given at the Royal Opera House in 1948."The Pilgrim's Progress", ‘'The Manchester Guardian, 21 July 1948, p. 3 As an orchestra conductor, Sargent had already been known as a hard taskmaster.
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Pritam narrates that she has just lost her family, so he brought her here for maid's job. Nandini finds very hard to get along with Gopichand as he is a hard taskmaster. She tries a lot of things to get closer to him, but everything in vain. Meanwhile, his family members are very worried that Nandini has reached his home & make schemes to get rid of her from his life.
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A Place Called Auschwitz Rayburn Hesse; March 9, 1993 Before and during his stint at the Record, he photographed Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, Tennessee Williams, and Ben Hecht, among others. In 1966, he went to Vietnam to take pictures of hometown soldiers in the war zone. In addition to his photojournalism assignments, he was a patient teacherBedell, Barbara; March 19, 2003; Columnist celebrates 30th anniversary; Times Herald-Record but hard taskmaster.
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Retrieved 19 July 2011. High Hopes was her award-winning breakthrough role. After Another Year she commented on Leigh's preference for improvisation "It's a unique way of working [...] He's quite a hard taskmaster." She played the mother of Jim Sturgess's character, Jamie, in Philip Ridley's 2009 feature film Heartless and appeared in Welcome to the Punch (2013).. She played Elsie in the hit 2016 film adaptation of A Street Cat Named Bob.
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First, An American in Paris (1951) and—probably the most admired of all film musicals—Singin' in the Rain (1952). As co-director, lead star, and choreographer, Kelly was the central driving force in both of these films. Johnny Green, the head of music at MGM at the time, said of him, > Gene is easygoing as long as you know exactly what you are doing when you're > working with him. He's a hard taskmaster and he loves hard work.
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He often clashed with Arizona swimming coach Dick Jochums, who was regarded as a hard taskmaster. The pair clashed over the training regime; Jochums insisted that Evans increase his mileage, something that the student strongly resisted. Evans was an All-American for four years, but he struggled in the short-course pools used in the college system. Short- course pools—which are only half the length—place more emphasis on a swimmer's turning ability, which was the Australian's weakness.
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Shortly before the end of the war he was wounded and captured in Yugoslavia, where together with his successor Generalleutant Hans von Hößlin he was sentenced to death in 1947 by a Yugoslav court. He was hanged in Ljubljana on 18 August 1947, like his younger brother, Generalleutnant Josef Kübler, who was hanged in Belgrade on 26 February 1947. Kübler was considered a "superb soldier" but a hard taskmaster. In 1964, the German Army barracks in Mittenwald, Bavaria were named after Kübler.
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While Ksenija attended the Lyceum, she was also influenced by Nada Stoiljković, her philosophy professor. Stoiljković suggested that Ksenija should take up philosophy with her former professor at Belgrade, Branislav Petronijević, and so, in the autumn of 1918, Ksenija Atanasijevic became Petronijevic's pupil at the University of Belgrade. Authoritarian and demanding, Petronijević was exactly what Ksenija needed at that point. A brilliant professor and one of the most famous philosophers of his day in Serbia and elsewhere, he was a hard taskmaster.
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His radio callsign is Snake Doctor which is Southern US slang for a dragonfly (based on the myth that they follow snakes around and heal their injuries). Years of continual combat have left Jonas with numerous injuries including 3 pieces of shrapnel close to the spine that would enable him to retire on full disability benefits should he wish to do so. He refuses to retire however or take up lucrative private security work contrary to his wife's wishes. Jonas' personality is of a hard taskmaster.
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Not yet financially established, Anna Julian continued to live and work in Washington, D.C. while pursuing her PhD in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, while her husband took a position in Chicago. When they began to live together, she found, "Science can be a hard taskmaster. Dinner can be at seven or 11, as far as the true disciple of chemistry is concerned." Both of them were committed to similar goals and values, and were later described by newspapers as a "power couple".
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He would write many programmes and broadcast them, too.Famed broadcaster ZA Bukhari's anniversary today Samaa TV website, Published 12 July 2012, Retrieved 31 March 2018 A hard taskmaster and a man who had been immersed in culture and literature, Bukhari did not tolerate slights in broadcasting and especially emphasized the correct Urdu pronunciation. Some experts were especially hired by him to check and correct the pronunciation of artistes. During Bukhari's tenure, the radio station was a place frequented by intellectuals, writers, musicians, poets and scholars.
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The outside world was very skeptical of MacPherson and DeMille's relationship, as some believed that they might have been having an affair. In 1921, MacPherson told a reporter, "I shall always be grateful for Mr. DeMille's assistance. He is a hard taskmaster and he demands that a thing shall be perfect... It was hard, but it taught me that anything worth doing at all was worth doing perfectly." It was later confirmed by DeMille's niece that MacPherson was in fact one of his three mistresses.
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He later greets Sharpe on his return to Spain and observes his harsh treatment of the corrupt Lieutenant- Colonel Girdwood. He gives his tacit approval of the behaviour but also warns Sharpe that he will arrange for Girdwood's replacement to be a hard taskmaster. By the time of Sharpe's Revenge, Nairn has finally been given command of a brigade after years as a staff officer. He has Sharpe assigned to him as his staff major and also makes Harper, Frederickson and Frederickson's company part of his command.
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Collins, I 177 The concept was extended in 1794 when "bad and suspicious characters" were sent to Toongabbie and were put to work in chains.Collins, I 337 Superintendent Daveney was a hard taskmaster and drove his convicts relentlessly through his overseers, "a set of merciless wretches" often chosen from the toughest and most brutal convicts. Newly arrived male convicts were sent direct to Toongabbie. Those capable of handling a spade or hoe were set to work despite their emaciated condition after the long voyage.
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Florenz Ziegfeld took 48 of the girls under contract for three years for his follies. John Tiller opened a dance school at 226 West 72nd Street with offices and a training studio run by Mary Read; a Head Tiller Girl from England who had been one of the 1916 Sunshine Girls in America, She trained American pupils as well as the girls from the United Kingdom. She was a hard taskmaster, but a good business woman who had John Tiller's full support in everything she did. The girls always called her Miss Read.
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Surya puts his best foot forward and secures a job just to pursue his lady love, in the process fabricating a web of lies. Nandini, who is shown to be a hard taskmaster and a stickler for honesty, is unaware of Surya's fabrications and is all set to marry him. She is confronted with reality on the day of their wedding. Whether Nandini ditches Surya or goes against her principles and marries the man who has told her everything but the truth forms the rest of the plot.
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However attendances were low and the club was losing around £50,000 a year, and had an overdraft of £216,453. He further purchased Lloyd's shares in November 1987, giving himself 60% of the total holding. Vale were bottom of the table on 28 December 1987, and Bell sacked coach Alan Oakes, and promoted 'hard taskmaster' Mike Pejic in his stead. As the team improved to reach safety, Bell then focused his work on improving Vale Park, and announced the start of a 'five-year plan' for the stadium after decades of neglect.
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J. C. MacKenzie (pictured in 2014) portrayed Normal, the manager of Jam Pony Express :Portrayed by J. C. MacKenzie (Seasons 1–2) Reagan "Normal" Ronald runs the Jam Pony Express courier service and is nicknamed Normal because his conservative attitude clashes with his somewhat anarchic surroundings. He is a hard taskmaster, often annoyingly saying "Bip, bip, bip!" to mean "hurry!" In addition to being disliked by most of his workers, he becomes anti-transgenic in the second season after the existence of Manticore's creations becomes public. Normal dotes on Alec and calls him his "golden boy," unaware that he is a transgenic.
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Moore devotes a chapter of his memoirs to Coates. He found the tenor a hard taskmaster, but one who transformed him from a mediocre accompanist to an artist with a full realisation of the duties and possibilities of the accompanist's role, aware of the necessity of being a full participant in every living nuance and accent of the music at hand. Moore considered that Coates had laid the groundwork of whatever was truly excellent in his work. Indeed, Coates had told him that the American tour would 'kill or cure' him, and considered the result a 'cure'.
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In 1913, 1927, and 1930, Grubb was assigned to the Federal District Court in New York City to help reduce the backlog. He gained a reputation for his decisions against price fixing schemes (for example the Wool Institute case in 1930) and for giving out long jail sentences to bootleggers. He was also a hard taskmaster, insisting for court to begin promptly at 9:30 and to continue after lunch until 5:30. In 1929, President Herbert Hoover appointed Grubb to the Wickersham Commission in response to the crime wave and lingering questions about the effectiveness of Prohibition.
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A frequently recounted anecdote is that when inspecting a corvette and its crew, Stephenson suddenly threw his hat on the deck and called it an unexploded bomb. A trainee (variously reported as quartermaster, or a sub-lieutenant) immediately kicked it into the water. After Stephenson commended him for quick action, but wanting his heavily gold- braided hat back, he then suddenly said the hat was now a man overboard and the trainee had to dive in to retrieve it. Stephenson had the reputation of being a very hard taskmaster, with officers being replaced before the ship was allowed to leave (and even commanding officers being dismissed on occasion).
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In November he became the commanding officer, instigated a tough training regime and the battalion's motto – "Live Hard, Fight Hard, and when necessary Die Hard". Always a disciplinarian, he was a hard taskmaster and a totally professional soldier dedicated to hard training, and with his harsher characteristics balanced by integrity, generosity and warmth.Pocock, pp. 62–71 In early 1945 he led the 4/8th Gurkhas, part of IV Corps, across the River Irrawaddy and hard fighting against the main body of the Japanese Army in Burma. In June he was appointed GSO 1 in his division's (7 Indian Division) Headquarters, although circumstances dictated that he had to return part-time to 4/8th Gurkhas as their commanding officer again.
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321–323 he transferred from the CAF to the Permanent Air Force in November. Promoted to flight lieutenant, from July 1935 to November 1937 Balmer was assigned to No. 1 Flying Training School, Point Cook, as an instructor. He gained a reputation as a hard taskmaster, and on one occasion—according to RAAF folklore—parachuted from a training aircraft to give his student the proper motivation to make a solo landing, though at least one newspaper at the time reported that he had in fact fallen out.Coulthard-Clark, The Third Brother, pp. 206–207, 496 On 15 August 1938, Balmer was forced to crash land an Avro Anson near Whitfield, Victoria, after its wings iced up—one of a series of accidents that befell the type following its introduction to Australian service.
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Major General Gerhardt was a hard taskmaster, a strict disciplinarian and considered by many of his men to be a martinet, who often became upset at small things such as a soldier not having the chinstrap of his helmet buckled. One famous story has him admonishing a soldier on the day after D-Day for dropping peels from the orange he was eating on the ground. He was intolerant of any dirt or mud being on the trucks, and would make soldiers stop and clean a truck under almost any circumstance. Major General Gerhardt was, however, a superb and driven trainer of soldiers and expected the same from his subordinates. He led the 29th Infantry Division throughout the fighting in Western Europe, from D-Day (June 6, 1944) until the end of World War II in Europe on Victory in Europe Day (May 8, 1945).
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