Word: reflexivity
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Calling for better research and prescription controls the Medical Letter advises: "Cough is a protective reflex; its severity should be diminished, but when there are copious secretions, it should not be suppressed by large doses of an antitussive agent." In most cases, the best remedy is an old-fashioned regimen of warm drinks and steam inhalation. Beyond that, "the familiar throat-tickling irritation can often be relieved by a candy drop...
Certain shows incite conditioned-reflex laughter. A quip rings a bell on stage, or a performer twitches a facial muscle, and the audience laughs, in much the same way that Pavlov's dogs salivated. The playgoer has been given nothing in the way of genuine comic nourishment. He has merely been cajoled into an empty-bellied laugh...
...decisions. One Leningrad doctor, hired by a health insurance company, was aghast when his new boss told him to pick a vacation date. In Jerusalem, a newly arrived photographer from Moscow hesitated when TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin bought him Coca-Cola at an outdoor café. "It was a reflex action," the photographer explained sheepishly. "In the Soviet Union, Coca-Cola is the archsymbol of the imperialist and the aggressor. But here in Israel it's safe to be an aggressor, no?" He drank the Coke...
...demands for a 'square deal.' What counts is that the wrongs and rights are apprehended as those of the class, as opposed to the moments in history where a class desires to escape altogether from its 'apartheid and identifies its rights with those of society as a whole . . . The reflex of class hierarchy was the aggressive consciousness of themselves as an 'estate' almost a separate 'nation' on its own. The very success of the conservative formula made it necessary to turn one's back on all that did not concern one." Should "black nationalists" succeed in imposing such a conservative...
...hydra of revisionism, in the person of Hoederer, but he can only shoot Hoederer after a conflation of damning circumstances have, so to speak, unhinged him. But is he really unhinged since he doesn't actually pull the trigger until jealousy, a bourgeois passion, has set off some passional reflex deep down in his basically bourgeois soul? He sees Hoederer, the ideological enemy, kiss his wife. He shoots Hoederer. Has he acted? Has he validated anything...