Word: reflexivity
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What is the aim to be sought in creating a memorial? The feeling which should be sought is one of reflex action on the spirit of the beholder, to awaken a vital, motivating incentive to higher and nobler sacrificial patriotic living. The utilitarian type, with its appeal chiefly to the physical senses, fails completely to touch the realm of the spirit. Is there any more "practical" or more "useful" ambition than to aim to consummate a memorial so designed and so executed as to keep over before the senses of passers-by the devotion to duty of those we seek...
...change the Communist fist into the open hand of simulated friendship, as rapidly as Moscow does it, requires not only political spryness but a kind of unabashed acceptance of duplicity and falsehood, so deeply ingrained that it becomes almost a reflex action, like breathing. In Paris last week the Communists, without visible embarrassment, were showing the fist and the open hand at the same time. Reason: the French satraps had been ordered to help along Moscow's new peace offensive, but their old orders to stir up trouble and sabotage EGA had not been canceled. TIME'S Paris...
...sympathy from physician, family and friends. For long-range treatment, the migraine sufferer should work and plan less, rest and exercise more. Dr. Wolff has another treatment for headaches of the migraine type: standing on the head.* The upside-down position, he believes, causes a "constriction reflex" that eases the swelling in the arteries...
...still extant a few of us anthropomorphic-minded souls who still clasp Uncle Remus and Ernest Thompson Seton to our bosoms? We prefer to believe, since birds do it and bees do it, that they (and the sticklebacks) feel romantic about what Professor Tinbergen insists is merely another dismal reflex...
Died. Maria Kapitonovna Petrova, 72, star pupil and longtime colleague of the late, great Physiologist Ivan Pavlov in his studies of conditioned reflex (by experiments with dogs); in Leningrad. She carried on Pavlov's studies after he died in 1936, published more than 100 works, lived according to Pavlov's precept: happiness is nothing, the dogs mean...