Word: rote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offices have received many protests about "Roman Catholics from Rote to Reality" [Feb. 17] because it neglects the source of "Come to the Father." The first three years of the series originated in Quebec with a team of French Canadian authors. It was adapted into an English version by a team of English Canadian catechists who have now joined their French brothers in the writing of grades 4, 5 and 6. This is the version used in the U.S. In Canada it is referred to as the Canadian Catechism...
...just a platoon leader. "Those we can turn out in 90 days," says retired Lieut. General James Gavin, an academy graduate. In today's Army, the diplomacy, political savvy and staff skills of a career officer may prove as pivotal as his mastery of firepower; needed are not rote answers but a broad background of educational experience. "The fellow who spent his whole career first as a platoon leader, then company commander, then battalion adjutant just doesn't exist any more," explains Lieut. Colonel William F. Leubbert, Ph.D., one of the Point's professors...
...worse -than what they would receive back home. While U.S. seminaries have all but abandoned Latin for lectures and brought their curriculums closer to those of secular liberal-arts colleges, the courses at Roman universities are still heavy on dogmatic theology and canon law, and the emphasis is on rote learning rather than creative thinking...
Most Communist governments seemingly dusted off the rote anticapitalist, anti-imperialist tirade from the agitprop manual. Indeed, their response was probably the most realistic of all, for they had plainly long accepted the inevitability of U.S. raids on such inviting targets. One Moscow commentator noted that Soviet policymakers had regarded them as "imminent for some time." Peking, preoccupied with its internal "purification" purge, unstoppered the prescription brimstone but pointedly refrained from any specific threat to enter the war or increase its assistance to Hanoi. As for Hanoi, its reaction had a certain surrealistic quality, with broadcasts about "a big victory...
...counsels of Christ. The Brothers of the Christian Schools are constitutionally forbidden to accept girls into their schools or teach in institutions not run by the congregation. They must give absolute obedience to their superiors, and until recently spiritual training in the brotherhoods operated on the principle that rote made right. "They dressed us like women and treated us like little boys," complains Irish Christian Brother Richard Unsworth of Montebello, Calif...