Word: reflex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schwarz means to stir people up, and he does. He arouses an automatic-reflex hostility in the liberal-to-left camp, and an equally instinctive support on the far right. But for those Americans who are themselves less easily classified, Schwarz is a hard man to classify. For his crusade poses a question that is deeper than it looks: What is the role of the individual U.S. citizen in antiCommunism...
...mostly a matter of thinking twice about everything in a time that demands it. "Modern American young people seem to walk on eggs more than any other generation in the 20th century," writes Sociologist Reuel Denney of the University of Chicago in Daedalus. "Their talent for the 'delayed reflex' may prove to be one of our main resources in the coming culture and politics of the nuclear...
...century ago. Sutherland, 35, has brought new life to bel canto. Says she, in her breezy Australian style: "I love all those demented old dames of the old operas." The attraction is understandable, for Sutherland has just the voice to do the old dames justice. Crystalline, open-throated, reflex-quick, her voice can shower feathery trills on an audience or take perilous leaps with agility and astonishing accuracy. It can trace graceful arabesques of passion or float from note to note with liquid ease. Most remarkable, it does not thin out, as do most coloratura voices, into shrill parody...
...visit, Aleksei Adzhubei, 37, a pudgy, fair-haired carbon of Father-in-Law Nikita Khrushchev, was pointedly asked by a U.S. newsman: "As editor of Izvestia, are you responsible for the policies of the paper and its editorial content?" The Red editor's first reaction was a reflex affirmative. His second, delivered in the only English he used during the interview: "Maybe...
...Travers tries manfully to get a tongue-hold on his role, but what comes out is Basic Choctaw compounded with his Wee Geordie burr. A boyhood brush with the Greek constabulary has left Agganis with the disconcerting habit of kayoing any man who lays a hand on him. This reflex comes in handy whenever Playwright Gethers needs to plot-boil a climax...