Word: reflex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is pain? Everybody knows because everybody has suffered it, but nobody can tell anybody else. Dictionaries are hopeless.* The late Sir Charles Sherrington, who collected no fewer than 22 honorary doctorates for his brilliant researches in physiology, called pain "the psychical adjunct of an imperative protective reflex." That may be fine for another physiologist, but it is no help to a man with a nail through his foot. Although pain is what drives most patients to a doctor, it is the symptom to which, all too often, doctors pay least attention. One good reason: it is the subject about...
...that is the Middle East. Egyptian mortars opened fire on Israelis patrolling along the Gaza border, as they had on many another routine patrol before. But this time the patrol, pinned down in a gully, lost three men before Israeli artillery counterfire released them, and the bitter reflex of reprisals began. The Israelis shelled an Egyptian village, the Egyptians replied with mortars on four Israeli frontier settlements, the Israelis retaliated by a heavy shelling of the crowded Egyptian city of Gaza. Before the U.N. Commission could get a ceasefire, 55 civilians in Gaza had died under Israeli shells. Israeli losses...
...skill of Boxing is the skill of a highly trained nervous system, capable of instant reflex action; it is the skill of perfect balance and graceful efficient movement . . ." tercollegiate bout, and is not its objective...
...scorn in virtually everything that crossed his irritable eye. He advocated death by artillery fire for Negroes and poor whites. A vociferous agnostic, he roared against the "whooping soul-savers." (One of his favorite letter endings: "I pray for you incessantly.") Religion, he maintained, was simply a "conditioned reflex...
Thus, in free translation by the University of Connecticut's Professor Jaime H. Arjona, runs a story from El Capellán de la Virgen (The Virgin's Chaplain), reprinted in the current American Psychologist. No clearer exposition of the principle of conditioned reflexes has ever been written. As every Russian schoolboy knows, reflex conditioning was unknown until it was discovered by Russian Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936). El Capellán de la Virgen, a play about the life of Saint Ildefonso (606-667), Archbishop of Toledo, was written by the Spanish Dramatist Lope de Vega...