Word: rote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bureaucratic mind strained, digging, not for an answer, but for the phrase from the statutes learned by rote for situations like this. "Well, if you wanted an abatement, you had to come in before June...
...their senility." Faure concedes the validity of student complaints that the examination system is obsolete and arbitrary and that the facilities are inadequate and overcrowded. He is pushing for exams that would be more frequent but more fair, based on testing working knowledge of a subject rather than on rote memorization. He also has promised to provide space for 20,000 new students in Paris this fall...
...first person who got inside my brain and picked." Otherwise, Weiss was mainly untouched by social concerns or intellectual interests. Brian arrived at U.C.L.A. uncertain of what he wanted to be come. He majored in zoology, barely got passing grades for two years. "They were fact-piling courses, just rote." He turned to the campus paper because "I didn't know anybody." As a freshman, he dashed off a column for the Bruin, patly suggested that although U.S. involvement in Viet Nam was regrettable, the military at least ought to run the war right. So many older students grilled...
...Indianapolis. A chunky, exuberant 20-year-old named Wes Montgomery sits on the bandstand. Inspired by the recordings of the great jazz guitarist Charlie Christian ("they burned my ears"), he has bought a guitar with his day-laborer's wages and learned Christian's solos by rote. Now, in his first professional appearance, he plays them through faultlessly...
...participants in one of the few radical advances in teaching the arts of war made since the days when Julius Caesar's centurions were bawling out greenhorns as they learned the goose-stepping passus Romanus. Replacing hoary drill instructors are cool specialists; no longer mechanical spiels learned by rote and replete with undigested, ill-pronounced jargon, lessons are couched in the G.I.s' everyday language; small items of equipment once invisible to troopers at the back of the class can now be magnified on TV screens...