Word: unlearn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Folklorico's 55 dancers came to the company only after training in the disciplines of classic ballet, whereupon they went on to unlearn many of its basics. Their movements forsake the glide-and-leap patterns of ballet in favor of a staccato stomping in which the heel, rather than the toe, becomes the pivot for the action. Unlike Russia's Moiseyev folk ballet, whose dancers' athletic leaps are relatively close to the virtuoso tradition of formal dance, the Folklorico's characteristic moments find the troupe bouncing in position like so many bright-colored jumping beans...
...still largely geared to the old rhythms: learning slowly the faces of his children, observing the seasons, the habits and kindnesses of one wife at a time. But now, unable to go to school in nature, he must rapidly learn and unlearn technical ways that his father did not know and that may prove useless to his children. Religion fell away, while faith in industrial progress became a form of religion-now itself eroded by creeping pessimism. Less than ever before is Western man sure of his own nature, except that he is so adaptable. That quality is all that...
Atlanta's teen-agers had a lot tougher time. Though untouched by violence, they had to unlearn old fears amid "normal" adolescent strains. One Negro boy worriedly studied karate before entering a white school: another dreamed of himself in Little Rock, holding off whites with a machine gun. Yet integration spurred many to sudden pride and progress. Instead of "always watching and peeking around," as one boy put it, "I feel as if I've been let out of jail and into America...
...Vote. On their side, the old Rhee supporters showed that they had yet to unlearn their old tricks. One wealthy ex-Liberal, running scared as an Independent, "loaned" teams of oxen to the farmers of his district, explaining: "If I am elected, you may keep them. But if I am defeated, I must take them back to pay off my creditors." Other candidates freely bought votes by folding money in campaign literature, and when the money dried up, by opening barrels of makkolli, one of the headiest of the home-brewed Korean rice wines...