Word: rote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professor at Yale and Stanford who was a chief proponent of the "new math"; of emphysema; in Palo Alto, Calif. As head of the School Mathematics Study Group, an organization with nearly $10 million in Government grants, Begle emphasized the theoretical principles of the number system in addition to rote calculation learned in traditional math...
Basketball, however, is a distant third in the sports boredom race behind the Superstars and NHL hockey. The former was once a good idea that Bob Seagren, Kyle Rote Jr., and Reggie Jackson all pitched in to ruin...
...Harvard Educational Review published Arthur Jensen's revival of the doctrine of Black genetic inferiority, thereby initiating a new wave of academic racism. Jensen attacked efforts to improve Black education during the 1960s and called for segregated rote learning for Blacks: educational apartheid. By the next year, Daniel Moynihan was telling Life Magazine that "the winds of Jensen were gusting through the capital at gale force." Then in 1971 Richard Herrnstein extended the assertion of genetic inferiority to the entire working class in his Atlantic Monthly article...
...that her acting ability was on a par with her secretarial skills. Though she seemed in her element on a massage table and got a good laugh when she sat down at a desk and tried to type, she generally spoke in a whiny monotone, delivered her lines by rote, and in one scene answered a door buzzer before it buzzed. "I knew that I wasn't going to walk off with an Academy Award," she confessed later, "but this is a morality play, and I can relate to that so well...
...yeah--on the field, there was a steady parade of the famous and not-too-famous: there were the six remaining original 1925 Giants--one of whom is, somewhat disconcertingly, currently confined to a wheelchair. Then there were the '56 Giants--Katcavage, Gifford, Rote, Grier, Connerly--still on their feet and looking like they could still put on the ol' uniforms in a pinch...