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...have written a fable about a skunk who was psychoanalyzed to lose his stench, or about a hare who preached the dictatorship of hares . .. When art begins to ape science it becomes exactly that-an ape. It appears just as ridiculous when it tries with its limited powers to retard or push forward the wheels of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Preacher | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...works for the young, dating back to Zlateh the Goat in 1966. Without the original illustrations, his fictions stand revealed as something more than mere bedtime stories. Many are informed by Freudian insights; tale after tale demonstrates a strong desire to prod the audience-and in some small way retard or push forward the wheels of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Preacher | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...Bauer also promotes the ideal of comparative advantage, the concept that nations should produce what they can make most cheaply. For most poor nations this means exporting raw materials and agricultural products. Bauer deems the idea of Third World industrialization inefficient and declares that it is "more likely to retard economic development than to promote...

Author: By Gilad Y. Ohana, | Title: The Joy of Capitalism | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...will promote further erosion of family values and of the place of the homemaker in society. However, both of these "traditional' concepts have taken such a beating over the last couple of decades that nothing Washington can do, short of totalitarian enforcement of morals, will either accelerate or retard this sad process...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Gender Gaps | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

Deukmejian has also vowed to repeal some measures designed to protect consumers and the environment, contending that they retard business growth. But the legislature will oppose such plans. Another big problem for Deukmejian: five of the six elected officials in his administration are Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Governor, New Style | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

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