Word: reflexive
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Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, 24 this week, reported to his three humble tutors on his studies of fish psychology. First, he had trained some salmon, bass and carp to associate their feeding time with the lighting of a red lamp. Having established a conditioned reflex which led the fish to expect food whenever the light was switched on. Akihito then impaired their vision by tinkering with their ophthalmic nerves. His scientific conclusion from the experiment (no surprise): the delicate operation caused the fish to "lose their previous ability to connect the lamp's red glow with food...
Conditioned Reflex. In Halesowen, England, after Albert A. Pastore explained that he fled the scene of an accident involving his car because he spotted his wife on the street and, having another woman with him, his "instinct was to put distance between the two," the judge dismissed the charge...
...found his customarily resonant, mellow notes, plus a larger kind of rollicking, swaggering presence that had about it much of the animal authority Ezio Pinza used to exude in the role. What it lacked was only a tincture of malevolence: Siepi's acting was sometimes reminiscent of the reflex actions of a sleek cat rather than of a man willing to defy Heaven to enjoy earth. Soprano Steber presented a rich, blazing, gusty-voiced Donna Anna and Soprano Delia Casa an elegantly anguished Donna Elvira. And as Leporello, Basso Fernando Corena not only lurched and grimaced about the stage...
...formal address, titled "New Dimensions of American Foreign Policy," the Massachusetts Senator pointed to a failure of Administration leadership in foreign relations. "If initiative falters at the pinnacle," he said, "if Administration action is only reflex action, then foreign policy cannot help but fail...
...perhaps not inappropriate in a nightclub act, but in a movie house-even with Frank Sinatra, an old friend of Joe's, serving up the master's material in showmanly style-it quickly produces an unpleasant sensation known to both medicine and show business as "the gag reflex...