Word: reflexive
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...well-organized campus rebels cleverly exploited broadly held malaise over the coldness of the "multiversity" to bring the school "to a grinding halt," as Savio put it. Last week the protesters were chaotic and focused on issues that were either trivial or phony-but the students, as though by reflex, were stirred up. "We have an emotional snowball on our hands," conceded Chancellor's Assistant John Searle...
...cities. In New York, as the Rheingold-beer ads say, there are more Italians than in Naples, more Puerto Ricans than in San Juan, more Greeks than in Sparta. Minority sympathies are still considered essential in civic affairs, and the ethnically balanced ticket remains something of a reflex...
...some areas, and Democratic fraternal strife in key states. What Barkan failed to mention-and Meany's investigation will hardly alter-is political history. As time and continuing prosperity erase memories of the great Depression and blunt purely economic issues, the Democrats cannot continue to count on reflex support from rank-and-file union members...
...REFLEX CAMERAS. The single-lens reflex camera, the most popular machine among amateurs, was displayed in many new varieties. Zeiss unveiled its $500 single-lens Contarex Electronic with an electronically controlled shutter, and the $100 Icarex 126 equipped to use easy-loading Kodapak film. Rollei, which made the first twin-lens reflex in 1929, came out with the single-lens SL66 with a tilting lens plane that improves depth of field focusing...
...technique is based on Ivan Pavlov's famed conditional-reflex experiment, in which a dog was trained to salivate at the sound of a bell. But for June, the conditioning was the dog-bell routine in reverse. Called "aversion therapy," it was the same stunt researchers use to train laboratory rats...