Word: rote
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...middle age. She insists, perhaps understandably, on being called Ms. Strong, instead of Mrs. Fidgett. This flusters Headmistress Smale (Beverly May) and the older staff, as do her theories of education, which smack of the bankrupt experiments of the '60s. She has no use for learning by rote. She wants children to play teachers, to make up their own work assignments, and for every one to "have a lot of fun and excitement, the kids and the teachers." The children, who are never seen or heard, challenge her with their own brand of stimulation. They come...
...Thibodeaux brags that the service "taught me how to fight and how to swear"-and then demonstrates just how poorly he learned at least one of those lessons as he expectorates a stream of hilariously garbled obscenities. A Saigon prostitute, blinking and cooing like a neon China doll, whispers rote nothings into our hero's ear; he thinks she's talking politics. A combat photographer boasts of the limbs he has lost in action and lures the reporter into the fray. "These flights are ab-stract!" he exults as the bomber tails into its fatal dive...
...dimension through her relationship with the murderer. Though Rule, like Larson, is unable to get past a snapshot description of the victims to make them stand out as individual sacrifices to the sociopath, one feels it is not because of a deadness of her moral sense. Unlike Larson's rote transcription of the case, The Stranger Beside Me grapples with Ted Bundy on human terms...
...easy to love the Giants. They have the greatest tradition of any team in football. If only today's Giants were the Giants of Ken Strong, or the Giants of Frank Gifford and Kyle Rote, or the Giants of Y.A. Tittle. They were definitely "giants" in those days...
...more students take make-up exams in courses where the final weighs heavily in the semester grade, as reported to the Faculty 18 months ago, de-emphasizing final-exam grades will reverse the epidemic of make-up tests. Thoughtful class participation and short, challenging papers will also obviate the rote memorization and regurgitation that now characterize so many final exams...