Word: reflexively
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...century ago. Sutherland, 35, has brought new life to bel canto. Says she, in her breezy Australian style: "I love all those demented old dames of the old operas." The attraction is understandable, for Sutherland has just the voice to do the old dames justice. Crystalline, open-throated, reflex-quick, her voice can shower feathery trills on an audience or take perilous leaps with agility and astonishing accuracy. It can trace graceful arabesques of passion or float from note to note with liquid ease. Most remarkable, it does not thin out, as do most coloratura voices, into shrill parody...
...visit, Aleksei Adzhubei, 37, a pudgy, fair-haired carbon of Father-in-Law Nikita Khrushchev, was pointedly asked by a U.S. newsman: "As editor of Izvestia, are you responsible for the policies of the paper and its editorial content?" The Red editor's first reaction was a reflex affirmative. His second, delivered in the only English he used during the interview: "Maybe...
...Travers tries manfully to get a tongue-hold on his role, but what comes out is Basic Choctaw compounded with his Wee Geordie burr. A boyhood brush with the Greek constabulary has left Agganis with the disconcerting habit of kayoing any man who lays a hand on him. This reflex comes in handy whenever Playwright Gethers needs to plot-boil a climax...
...Reflex. For some, like India, neutralism is an effort to escape to the sidelines, to get out of the way of the "fighting buffaloes." For others, like the U.A.R. and Afghanistan, neutralism is an attractive and well-paying way to draw economic and military aid from both blocs. For almost all, lambasting the West is an automatic reflex, since nearly all have emerged from fierce nationalist struggles against some form of Western hegemony. What they fail to realize is that they can enjoy the luxury of neutralism only because the West stands between them and Russia's ambitions...
Sick, Sick, Sick Pay. If Western psychiatrists could pity the Russians for being still confined in the straitjacket of Pavlov's physiological, conditioned-reflex theories, they could feel no superiority about the availability and effectiveness of straightforward, pragmatic psychiatry in Russia-at least the way the Russians told it. There seems to be about as much mental illness (certainly the handicapping forms such as schizophrenia) in the U.S.S.R. as in the West. But there are many fewer patients in mental hospitals at any one time. Reason: the Russians are taking psychiatry to the patients at the street-corner level...