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...overwhelming margins, and he was able to sustain the veto in two cases. The Democrats whom Nixon tried to defeat are now much less likely to work with him, and Republican moderates and liberals are incensed about the elimination of Goodell. "There're going to be fewer Pavlovian responses around here," predicted one senatorial assistant...
...Hutschnecker, who was practicing internal medicine when Richard Nixon went to him for periodic physical checkups in the early 1950s. After-school counseling would be mandatory for young children; older, hard-core youths might be packed off to special camps. To reinforce their better traits, Hutschnecker suggested, "there are Pavlovian methods, which I have seen used effectively in the Soviet Union...
...whole lot of alternatives. When a company shells out $240 million on advertising, they do as much to mold the buyer to the car they're offering as they do molding the car to the buyer. The market-especially the automotive market-has become so much a Pavlovian responder to Detroit-dictated style consciousness, that only the source of the problem can change the public's expectations by offering new safer models...
Most working people, contrary to popular opinion, are not Pavlovian morons who salivate at the word "Communism." Red-baiting is no longer enough to justify a raging inflation that undercuts each paycheck more than the one before it. The domino theory doesn't soften the blow of being laid off, as 12,000 Boeing workers on the west coast were last month, by the routinization of war production...
...stage are human beings having nothing to do with the way they talk. Many old liberals will be so hung up on their knecjerk reactions to dialect that they will fail to deal with these people on the basis of anything but those superficial bases for which they have Pavlovian responses. The audience will be too screwed up-and frightened-by the play's complex inverted humor to listen to the words- or laugh...