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Besides being vulnerable upon other counts this folksy little essay is hard to surpass as an example of the oversimplification that passes for psychology among so many economists and political scientists. It is an impeccable discussion of the motivation of the donkey, but used in reference to human beings it applies only to those who literally wish to make jackasses of themselves...
...human donkey requires either a carrot in front or a stick behind to goad it into activity. It is fashionable at the moment to argue that the carrot is the more important of the two: "incentive" is the watchword, and all classes of the community are busy arguing that if only they are given a little bit more in the way of incentive (at the expense of the rest of the community) they will respond with more activity. ... But it is probably more realistic (though it has that touch of brutal cynicism that is so much frowned upon these days...
...Donkey Bones. More exciting to French diggers is the art-crammed neolithic cave at Montignac-sur-Vézère. Named after some donkey bones found near the surface, the cave was first explored in 1940 by schoolboys. A few pictures of it leaked out through Vichy (TIME, July 28, 1941), but detailed study had to wait until after the war. Last week scientific investigation was going full speed ahead...
Iturbi mugged with Sinatra in Anchors Aweigh, played The Donkey Serenade and conducted an 18-piano ensemble in a Technicolor thrashing of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. In his fifth picture (Holiday in Mexico) he appears with three other Iturbis-his sister, Amparo Iturbi, and his two grandchildren, Antonia and Teresa...
...recalcitrant generals, whether of diehard Kuomintang or diehard Communist persuasion, he talked with the firmness of a Dutch uncle and the adroitness of a donkey driver who knows the value of both stick and carrot. One burly commander, who said that he could not control his troops, was trapped by the steely Marshall eye. "I have only to look at you," said the Special Envoy, "to know that your people will do just what you tell them. Trouble is, you haven't told them, have you?" The commander beamed with confusion and pleasure, admitted that maybe he hadn...