Word: reflex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost by reflex to the hostility Wright often aroused with his freewheeling comments, the home life at Taliesin became his own world. At its center were Wright and Olgivanna and their daughter lovanna. Around them were 65 apprentices, who happily farmed the vegetables, waited on table and washed the family laundry for the privilege of having a bench in Wright's drafting room. Draftsmen found themselves singing in the a cappella choir of 30 voices, playing in orchestra and quartet, performing with the dance groups. Wright treated them all as extensions of his hand, told them: "You can stay...
...Food angina can be equally bad: some patients, accustomed to pain after eating, develop a conditioned reflex so that the mere sight of food produces an attack; some, from fear of the pain, starve themselves into another kind of illness. ¶ Physicians can induce angina if, instead of relieving angina worries, they give the patient an exaggerated idea of the gravity of his condition. An electrocardiographic test or the sight of the consulting room may touch off an attack. "Treatment," says Dr. Briggs, loyal to his profession, "is very difficult...
...charted the elements and drew up the periodic scale still found in every high school laboratory. Had Aleksandr Popov worked a bit faster, he might well have wrested from Marconi credit for inventing the radio. In 1904 Ivan Pavlov won a Nobel Prize for his work on the conditioned reflex, and four years later, Ilya Mechnikov won another for his studies of the destruction of bacteria by white blood cells...
Though Frenchmen may not intend it that way, whenever they flout world opinion, German stock tends to go up. This truism was evident in London last week. The 20th century reflex is to think of Britons and Germans as mortal enemies, and Britons and French as fond allies. But before the two World Wars, the opposite was more often the case. As late as the end of the 19th century, Britain's obvious partner in trade, diplomacy and royal bedrooms was Germany. "The natural alliance," said Salisbury's Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain on Nov. 30, 1899, "is between...
...practice is designed so the basic plays and patterns become mechanical. I try to develop a conditioned reflex in the boys so they won't have to take even a split second to think in a given situation. They'll just react automatically." With such a system, Schaus has turned out an extraordinarily well-balanced team, e.g., all five starters regularly score in the double figures. The balance was neatly illustrated at week's end when Coach Schaus's boys had such an easy time drubbing George Washington University, 93-66 (for their 12th straight) that...