Word: reflexively
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...situations like these students apparently respond to the regulations of Harvard's academic "stars." But applause doesn't seem reserved only for well known faculty personalities and at times students and faculty say, it appears to be nothing but a reflex action. "Everyone else does it appears to be nothing but a reflex action. "Everyone else does it and I'm a conformist," says one student another admits, "I've been drawn into...
...founding editor of PEOPLE. Wrapped around the listings will be up to 32 pages of news, profiles and features "strongly pegged to that week's programs," Burgheim added. "There may be critics or columnists, but the staff will be young, of the TV generation, less snobbish than the reflex print writer reacting to television...
...fiction (five novels and more than 100 short stories) was set in the heat of the year, but his dominant landscape radiated warmth and possibilities. It was filled with earnest people blinking in the glare of sudden and temporary freedom, with winter a chilly reflex of conscience. Seaside houses stimulated the senses: "Lying in bed, you draw on your cigarette and the red glow lights an arm, a breast, and a thigh around which the world seems to revolve. These images are like the embers of our best feelings, and standing on the beach, for that first hour, it seems...
Teran was a pit crewman, just 22. To someone standing a few feet away, the sound of the thud was enough. Teran was dead. But the reflex thought was the irony of betrayal, not the horror of racing. Who would think to look both ways before stepping out into the alltime one-way street? George Bignotti, the famed engine builder, picked up Armando Teran's shoes. After the rest of the debris was picked up, the race resumed...
...only unused fields, including much of United Fruits holdings--were hardly those of a Marxist revolutionary Nor did they pose a lethal threat to United Fruit's interests, its fruit-producing lands remained untouched But America, caught up in the hysteria of McCarthysim and the Cold War, flinched. The reflex to react immediately and decisively against any perceived danger to the capitalist status quo, in the United States or abroad, became highly developed Arbenz, a flawed politician in Schlesinger and Kinzer's eyes was nonetheless a true pluralist and certainly not a Marxist. But in Washington, where...