Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This anonymous author, probably a woman, whose almost supernatural gift for intuitive writing was responsible for 'Miss Tiverton Goes Out,' has produced a significant psychological study. The importance of the book dwells in the amazing quality which the author has for under-standing and analyzing human* conflict, subconscious reaction...
...English model, however, is a question which Dean Pound does not attempt to answer. He points out that in taking an independent course we have lost any benefit which might accrue from judicial experience, judicial empiricism, and independent courts. This is preferable, however, to undergoing that strong reaction which invariably follows on the heels of judicial depotism. A few dominating figures on the bench might illustrate very well the advantages of a strong independent judge but, after their passing comes lax criminal law, in the throes of which, according to Dean Pound, the present generation is still laboring...
...Machinery;" a series, now bound together not only in substance but in thought and in purpose, fascinating from beginning to end, and giving in the clearest fashion an explanation of "living machinery", that is, of our own bodies. The interplay of nerve and muscle, and of chemical and electrical reaction that takes place within the living animal is graphically and entertainingly set forth. Curiosity is constantly piqued by such statements as-"Even when a nerve carriers 280 messages in a second, its temperature rises only 1-14,000th part of a degree." Who ever dreamed that a nerve is capable...
Turing to chapter 2, or rather lecture 2, on "Muscles and How They Move," we learn a lot of things which we ought to know; this statement, in fact, being true of the whole book. Are you aware, for example, that muscular activity is effected by chemical reaction; that the efficiency of our muscles is 25 per cent something better that that of a steam engine; that a frog's muscle can lift one thousand times its won weight? Have you a clear conception of what causes the "lubb" and the "dup" of the heart beat? All these question open...
...rash and foolish," said several. Others cried: "Beedy is right!" All agreed that his remarks, as transmitted through many a radio set into many a cozy sitting room, would rouse wide comment of approval or annoyance. Next morning they asked their friends who had been "listening in" what reaction Mr. Beedy's words had aroused. "What did he talk about?" said the friends. Banqueters soon learned that, considering his remarks too controversial for radio consumption, Christopher Bohnsack, director of WNYC, Manhattan municipal radio station, had turned a switch which had effectively prevented Mr. Beedy's controversial words from...