Word: rote
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before, such liberalism was denigrated as the result of rote belief, now it is said to be the product of a desire to be "correct," fashionable. It is not so much unthinking, as conniving...
Different people learn in different ways. Some minds cannot be inspired in a sterile classroom and cannot learn from lecture or rote memorization. Some people can be better educated through an active process, whether it is an intense discussion, dramtization or hands-on experience...
...Naked Gun turns everything into a gag. Drebin can't park his car or pick up a pen without something calamitous happening. Many of the gags, in fact, are obvious, but that's part of the film's charm; the movie operates on bringing out the silliness of the rote plots and personalities that characterize endless episodes of TV cop shows...
...this is Dallas, and S.M.U., after all, is the house that Doak Walker and Rote helped build. Now Single even wants to move games out of big Texas Stadium and back on campus. Why, the Mustangs haven't played at cramped, old Ownby since Doak's crew mopped up Texas Tech...
...Scrunching into a child's chair in an eighth-grade English class, Bennett speaks softly. "You don't want to scare 'em," he explains later. When the pupils' questions become too rote, Bennett teases. "Some kids asked me if the Secret Service was here. 'See that big guy back there?' " he says, pointing to a hulking bodyguard. "If you guys make a move for me, you're in trouble...