Word: rote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stevens sees things, all that is esthetically ugly or morally wrong in the world proceeds from people's misconceptions of reality. People misconceive reality, according to his diagnosis, because they think about it without imagination or by rote. This distresses Stevens, because such thinking litters up the world with all kinds of rusty cast-iron conceptions...
Parts of a World is a book to quicken people's awareness of the difference between rote and imagination. His 60-odd lyrics are tailored to meet the specifications of his idea of an ordered world. They are all intended to show that the imagination is that faculty in man which enables him to tailor facts after his heart's desire. The tailoring, however, is not to be done by mere wishful thinking, but by the bowing of the skilled workman over his fully apprehended...
Newest piano methods, which can be used even on three-year-olds, combine singing, harmony, composition, teaching by rote. Instead of learning a showpiece by playing it over & over, a student plays many pieces, however sketchily. Most widespread modern system is the Oxford Piano Course, developed at Northwestern University by Osbourne McConathy, Gail and Charles Haake. Many an Oxfordized tot startles his mother by asking how to find the dominant seventh in four sharps-a key which the oldtime piano-marms kept for their star pupils...
...flock were only fair. But to Spiritual-Fancier Worth Kramer, young white program director of WGAR, the colored choir presented a chance to try his hand at arranging Negro music. Adding 16 voices to Settle's original 19, he drummed his arrangements into the musically illiterate group by rote, drilled them for weeks before he put them on the air. Their success was immediate and overwhelming. Broadcasting from 8:30 to 9 C. S. T. every Sunday morning, the choir soon had Cleveland by the ears, quickly graduated to a CBS network. Today, under the program name of Wings...
...World War II. Thanks to his and Secretary Hull's slightly awry foresight, the President had only to reach into the files, pull out and brush up proclamations and orders already prepared to orient the U. S. to World War II's greater scope. As though by rote, Roosevelt & Hull...