Word: reflexivity
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...months ago, Washington's National Gallery of Art faced its approaching 25th birthday with no idea of how to celebrate it. Almost as a matter of reflex, Director John Walker turned to the gallery's president, Paul Mellon. Nothing could be more natural. He is the son of Andrew Mellon, many-time Secretary of the Treasury, whose personal fortune built the gallery. In his own right, Paul Mellon, along with his wife and his sister, Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce (first wife of U.S. Ambassador David K. E. Bruce), is a collector of the first order...
Speaking on "The Cold War as Conditioned Reflex." Galbraith noted that the United Staes had reversed its policy since the India-Pakistan border dispute this year. The reversal, he said, is an example of the contradiction in recent American foreign policy...
Static from Moscow. They were, indeed. The astronauts carried out 17 experiments-ten more than Gemini 4. Five of them involved photography. Clicking away with a modified Hasselblad 70-mm. reflex camera and a 35-mm. camera, Cooper and Conrad photographed the moon, the eye of Hurricane Doreen east of Hawaii, and the zodiacal light above the horizon just after twilight and just before dawn-gaining invaluable information for meteorologists and astronomers. They sighted and photographed the firings of two Minutemen missiles, launched to coincide with Gemini's passover. They took infra-red measurements of volcanoes, land masses...
...Wolf wondered how strong this reflex was in man, and whether it might sometimes go too far. Instead of the heart simply slowing down, Dr. Wolf asked himself, might it not actually stop? To check his reasoning, he talked his wife and three children into joining other volunteers in repeatedly dunking their faces in a wash basin while he took their electrocardiograms. Their heart rates promptly slowed down. One of Wolfs most important findings was that fear intensified the reflex. If a man feels severe pain and suspects he is having a heart attack, Wolf concluded, he may panic, thus...
...Pediatrics, the seven medical researchers suggest that this same reflex may be what causes many premature and some full-term infants to shut down the flow of blood through their lungs. Some unborn infants may have had the reflex activated to compensate for an oxygen shortage caused by low blood pressure in the mother, or a constriction or partial separation of the umbilical cord. As a result, the babies are born with thousands of constricted arterioles that do not carry sufficient blood to the lung's air spaces where oxygen is picked up-a condition that leads...