Word: reflex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conditioned Reflex. In Melbourne, Australia, Thomas Joseph O'Shea was freed on a charge of insulting a policeman after he told the judge that his cough, and not the passing cop, had made him stick out his tongue...
What about his initiation of Point Four, NATO, and his support of the Schuman Plan? The Marshall Plan, which you designate as a "healthy Truman reflex" to an emergency, indicates more than a little ability to look ahead . . . The record shows that again & again Truman acted in the interests of the long-range welfare of his country even when it meant obvious political disadvantage to himself...
Among the foes of Freudian psychoanalysis, few are bitterer than psychologists of rival schools. A savagely outhitting example is Andrew Salter, Manhattan behaviorist and hypnotist, splenetic disciple of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Psychologist Salter paid his disrespects to the Freudians and set out his own pet creed in Conditioned Reflex Therapy (TIME, Oct. 10, 1949). Now older (37) but no mellower, Salter makes another attack in The Case Against Psychoanalysis (Holt...
...Truman stood up under successive blows. When cornered by disaster, as in the European crisis or the Red attack on South Korea, he reacted out of deeply rooted American principles. The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the decision to defend South Korea are examples of the healthy Truman reflex. If any problem was close enough, desperate enough and clear enough, he knew what to do. He did not possess and he did not develop the ability to look ahead, to avoid the crises, to build...
...rehearsal seat, Rudolf Bing blinked at the unscheduled little scene on the Metropolitan Opera stage. An impromptu chorus of stagehands was standing among the singers, bellowing Happy Birthday to You, and looking at him. Bing recalled that it was indeed his birthday, his soth. He rose with a reflex smile. "Thank you, thank you," he said. "Those," he added wryly, "were the first words this afternoon that I could understand...