Word: pavlovian
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...Bara and the silent films: the wildly staring eyes and clawing hands of grief, the shaking fists upraised in righteous anger. At one point, Romeo stands with roses in one hand and a human skull in the other, registering alternate hope and despair with the instantaneous reflexes of a Pavlovian...
Commenting on Communist China's massive effort to herd all China's people into communes. Edward Hunter introduced a new word: insectivization. Said he: "They are insectivizing the whole people, making them into the Soviet man, on the level of the spider, or the ant, the Pavlovian concept, unthinkingly obedient to the master or to instinct...
...wayward among his hearers found the prospect an unbearable stress, says Dr. Sargant. He quotes Wesley as describing meeting after meeting at which the penitent burst into tears, cried aloud, sweated profusely, shook all over, and often fell into stuporous states. This final stage seemed to fit both Pavlovian theory and modern psychiatric observation-that a patient usually collapses exhausted after a soul-wringing catharsis which is achieved by reliving an emotionally damaging experience...
...fellow psychiatrists but by big-name laymen and critics, e.g., Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, Critic V. S. Pritchett, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr ("fascinating and profound"). Actually, plausible though it sounds, Sargant's thesis is based on shaky premises. He accepts uncritically the Pavlovian view that the brain and nervous system are something "which man shares with the dog and other animals." In effect, the human brain, probably because of its greatly enlarged cerebrum and vastly multiplied nerve junctions, is different in quality as well as quantity from that of even the higher apes...
...blow. Before the fourth, Gainford advised Robinson to throw a right to the heart, and then follow with a left hook to the chin. Robinson nodded. He saw no chance in the next round, but midway through the fifth, Robinson drove a right into Fullmer's body. In Pavlovian style, the champion lowered his hands, and for a split second uncovered his chin. It hung there, as naked and as obvious as the Rock of Gibraltar. Robinson planted his dancer's feet and swung his left. The hook landed with precision and power, and Fullmer went down...