Word: reflexively
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Make your own list. This intolerance -- the only form of discrimination designed to protect the discriminator's sanity -- is a natural reflex that can be trained. The individual's list of recusals conforms to his interests and prejudices. Customized recusal is superior to those presumptuous recitals, regularly published by Women's Wear Daily and others...
Like Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities, London Fields should excite the love-it-or-heave-it reflex. Those whose sensibilities were tousled by Wolfe's rough treatment of New York City will be put off by Amis' pitch-black satire about the other sagging capital of the English-speaking world. But those who found Bonfire's incendiary social commentary amusingly accurate should spontaneously combust over Amis' latest export...