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Extemporize
verb
To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
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Herbart himself warned: We must be familiar with them [the methods], try them out according to circumstances, alter, find new ones, and extemporize; only we must not be swallowed up in them nor seek the salvation of education there.
We must be familiar with them [the methods], try them out according to circumstances, alter, find new ones, and extemporize; only we must not be swallowed up in them nor seek the salvation of education there.
Written percussion parts (in instruction books only) date from the 16th century, as drummers were expected to extemporize their parts.
Although the puppeteer works only from a brief scenario, he is able to extemporize each performance, adding contemporary jokes for the clowns and molding the performance to suit the occasion and the audience.
The next features the playwright Wallace Shawn and his brother, the composer Allen Shawn, who will extemporize on random topics while their words are recorded and replayed.
He recalled the walks they took, during which his grandfather would extemporize about nature and philosophy, as "the only useful education I had".
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His books about these experiences were Foole upon Foole; or, Six Sortes of Sottes, about six household fools, and Quips upon Questions, a collection from his masterly performances where he extemporized verse responses to audience questions; both were published in 1600 under the pseudonym Clonnico de Curtanio Snuffe.
Such songs were spontaneously extemporized by a rabbi or one of his disciples, the entire group of men then repeating the song in unison.
As a kid, he stuttered, and reading aloud is still more awkward for him than extemporizing.
He paces the stage, like a motivational speaker, and he extemporizes but doesn't ramble.
In recent days, as the White House speechwriters were weighing the language and the imagery of Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Bush was extemporizing his way toward war.
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