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...from it," she says. "It is my idea that God is available and loves everybody, and we might as well get in tune and let him help." Some ministers and rabbis wonder whether this apparent ocean of national prayer is more than ankle-deep. "Prayer is often a conditioned reflex," worries Dr. Edgar S. Brown Jr., executive director of the Commission of Worship for the Lutheran Church in America. "It's a handy thing to have around in time of trouble." Other clerical skeptics argue that their congregations have lost the art of praying; worship, they say, has become...
...reflex action, an Atlantic City convention of the 447,000-member International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union unanimously elected diminutive David Dubinsky, 70, to his eleventh three-year term as president. Having brought the union from threadbare poverty (32,000 members, a $1,500,000 debt just before he became president) to silken opulence (assets of $425 million) in 30 years, the pudgy potentate of the cloak-and-suiters saw no reason why he shouldn't keep going. "Some people are old in their young days; some people are young in their old days," said he. "I feel...
...McConnell, 36, turned to flatworms (Planaria), regarded as the most primitive creatures capable of true "learning." In 150 to 250 lessons, the worms learned that the flashing on of an electric light meant that they should contract and brace themselves for an electric shock. With this Pavlovian conditional reflex, high-IQ flatworms heeded the light warning and contracted 23 times...
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...