Word: rote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However much the convention antics and dramatics on the Cow Palace floor seemed to be spun out by pro-Goldwater rote, one thing worth watching was the Republican moderates' death battle on the platform issues. Unfortunately, the climax came too late for much of the Eastern U.S. to follow it on television...
Mastering the particular rules of a particular state has habitually been the key of admission to the bar of that state. Yet most U.S. law schools shun rote rule learning in favor of broad theory and legal reasoning. The great schools are the most detached. Bright Harvard-men, steeped though they are in constitutional law, do not necessarily do any better on bar exams than graduates of less prestigious schools that teach more local law. Last summer 73% of Harvard's candidates (and 65% of all candidates) passed the New York exam, as did 73% from Fordham...
...nasal to be winningly melodic, but she uses it like a jazz instrument, improvising a jumping rhetoric of sound. She can bring a song phrase to a growling halt, or let it drift lyrically like a ribbon of smoke. Her lyrics seem not to have been learned by rote, but branded on her heart, and when she sings or dances, some elemental beat of energy and joy sends riffs through her long mandarin fingers, her rocking pelvis, and restless toes...
Saltonstall said that the major problem of the Peace Corps teachers in Nigeria is that the schools are set up on the British pattern. The students, he explained, are accustomed to learning things by rote. "I stand strongly for the American tradition of trying to understand things, rather than memorizing them word by word...
Later we learned by rote how Sen. Joseph McCarthy destroyed some people who had been leftists when they were young, and how the white knight Joseph Welch finally destroyed him. But few of us have any real sense of what the man was like. The stakes in the daily debates of the television spectacle that stretched through the early spring months of 1954, and the tension filling the Senate Caucus Room where the Army-McCarthy hearings transpired are, for us, forgotten...