Word: pavlovian
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...this, it would be necessary both to overcome most Americans' quasi-Pavlovian reluctance to support any movement with substantial Communist elements, and their more justifiable queasiness at identifying themselves with a movement whose accession to power may well be accompanied by large-scale massacres of political opponents...
Beep. Tucked into a smoker's pocket or handbag, the small "Bellboy" paging device sounds. The smoker immediately stops whatever he is doing and lights up, interrupting his meal or stepping from his shower. A Pavlovian response? Posthypnotic suggestion? No. The smoker is so anxious to give up cigarettes that he is strictly following one of the newest and most unusual of the proliferating antismoking regimens...
...fight to meet the original budgetary needs of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Kennedy and other Democrats decided that the time had come to rebel against the Senate's Pavlovian habit of slashing non-defense appropriations while passing military spending bills unscathed. The grim testimony presented to the "hun- ger committee" proved the validity of that position...
...ITEMS in the Journal are not so helpful or insightful. One is a reprint from the Columbia University Forum of Conor Cruise O'Brien's "The Counterrevolutionary Reflex," which wearily argues that the United States should not have such a Pavlovian response to communism and revolution, and stops there. The second in particular is Columbia graduate student Samuel Anderson's prose poem, "Mr. Moynihan in Bedford-Stuyvesant." Certainly there are other ways to assert a black identity than by continuing to put down Monynihan. Moynihan's criticism of the American welfare system may still someday make it easier...
...sound creates a fleeting moment of distraction for the animal. When a dog owner spots his pet doing something wrong-such as chewing on the sofa-he simply tosses the Hi-Fido on the floor. The tuning fork vibrates, the dog is distracted, and eventually, insists Miller, a Pavlovian association is created that makes the sofa itself a distraction. If the animal then proceeds to gnaw on the Hi-Fido, it is clearly psychodogmatic. A cure for that is to give it a belt on the behind with a rolled-up newspaper...