Word: reflexivity
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Political Reflex...
From socialism's earliest beginnings down through the years to the present, the Roman Catholic Church has branded the Marxist doctrine of socialism with its disapproval. That disapproval became such a political reflex that Catholic parties often seemed to be identified with opposition to social progress itself. The effort to correct this impression, plus the urgent menace of Communism, gave birth, in post-World War II in Europe, to the surprisingly successful Christian Democratic movements in Italy, Western Germany, Belgium and France...
Musical high point of the evening: Bartok's Violin Concerto, with Yehudi Menuhin as soloist. The orchestra played with parade-drilled smoothness and reflex-sharp rhythmic feel. Said Menuhin afterwards: "It's the first time I ever played the whole concerto straight through at rehearsal without stopping and explaining. This music is in their blood; it's like American children dancing rock 'n' roll...
Conditioned Reflex. The late Howard Swiggett (he died last March at 64) was the better author, and The Durable Fire is the livelier, more levelheaded book. Stephen Lowry, a new vice president of Continental Industries Corp., hopes to stockpile enough cash in ten years to get back to his unfinished book Principal Errors of Judgment of Rulers and Peoples Since the Reformation. Steve's principal error, as Author Swiggett sees it, seems to lie in thinking that a few miles of Long Island Railroad track can separate the company's time from his own. While Steve never becomes...
Pavlov's conditioned-reflex theory (a dog regularly fed at the ringing of a bell will eventually salivate at the mere sound, even though no food is offered) was only the beginning. In later work, which got little attention in the West, Pavlov sought to prove that dogs are of four temperamental types, "strong excitatory," "lively," "calm imperturbable, or phlegmatic," and "weak inhibitory."* Further, he developed an elaborate theory of both positive and negative conditioned responses, which appear in varying patterns when a dog is subjected to unendurable stress ("trans-marginally stimulated"). A dog usually breaks down...