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...Kate Reid gives a stridently able performance, but is too self-assured for an alcoholic, and this throws the play out of emotional kilter. Leighton is poignant as only Leighton can be: her sky-blue eyes hold rain. But Williams plays his mood music of longing and loneliness by rote...
...British Ambassador to The Hague for 600 florins. A surviving letter, signed by the artist, describes the work as "Daniel amidst many lions, which are taken from the life. Original, the whole by my hand." Rubens is often dismissed as a rote fabricator of effulgent flesh, of plump nudes and pillared panoramas of bestial warriors. His Daniel is, otherwise, dramatic proof of the baroque at its turbulent best...
...store owner who dabbled on the side in real estate and a steel products company in Portland, Ore., he inherited from his father a photographic memory and the ability to add or multiply multiple figures rapidly. He was an indifferent student who enjoyed history and arithmetic but disliked the rote of learning. He pointedly read novels during class...
Unlike the Electrical Workers' Carey and the Steelworkers' McDonald, most major union leaders are returned to office almost by rote. Among these is Polish-born David Dubinsky, president of the 440,000-member International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Last week, at 73, Dave Dubinsky was re-elected for a twelfth three-year term and was awarded a $50-a-week raise (to $31,000 a year). As usual, he had only token opposition. Said Dubinsky after 1,000 I.L.G.W.U. convention delegates gave him an ovation: "There is much more to be done. I feel...
Some professors openly encourage ceptsmanship, stress the cept in their lectures, argue that students who retain the cepts acquire an understanding that goes beyond a rote knowledge of who said what. These teachers may also delight in the cept as a handy way of rating the quality of a student's essay in quantitative terms. They merely scan the essay, underline the cepts, assign a numerical value to each, and tot them up. Other teachers never admit they are even aware of cepts-but tacitly use them anyway in grading. Superlative ceptsmanship amounts to a canny duel between teacher...