Word: rote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fixed upon issues of weaponry and strategy and turned to the military for support. The virtual assurance that violation would be detected, the right of withdrawal from the agreement, and the reassurances regarding inadvertant recognition of East Germany have made the argument about the scheming Red Russians seem somewhat rote and pointless, even to a few of the treaty's detractors...
...called "hard edge" artists believe that they are reaching for a new classicism. They refer to their work as "high art," as opposed to "pop art." In their self-conscious striving, their purity is strikingly mannerist and overrefined. Colors run contrary to esthetic handbooks, forms repeat until they become rote, composition is twisted out of balance...
...cell. The scene itself is slow and partially irrelevant to the whole play; Genet changed it radically for the second French edition. Nevertheless, William Hart is very repellent (as he should be) as Armand, the Hood. But Marcus Powell (Roger the Plumber) speaks as if he memorized words by rote from a foreign language...
...Christ or the church, but who nonetheless have made a personal and total surrender to the truth of an "unknown God." For Rahner, these truth-wedded men are, in a sense, Christians also-perhaps better Christians than those reared as Catholics who carry on their spiritual life by rote...
...England schoolmaster, whom Dewey himself called "the father of progressive education.'' Colonel Parker-he won the rank as a Union officer in the Civil War-was less a Dewey-style theorist than an artist with children. His talent revealed itself in his famed 1870s reform of the rote-taught schools of Quincy, Mass. Said he: "The primary concern of education is character. A school should be a model home, a complete community, an embryonic democracy...