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...constitutional amendments that the Cabinet and the collective presidency will put into operation will drastically alter the relationship between the central government in Belgrade and the republics and provinces. Since its creation in the wake of World War I, Yugoslavia has been an uneasy alliance of six republics with three official languages, three dominant religions and two alphabets...
...constructions of steel pipe, chains and massive timbers had an exhilarating effect on younger New York artists; hosannas rose from critics. "Here," exclaimed Sidney Geist in Arts magazine, "was a body of work so ambitious and intelligent, so raw and clean, so noble and accessible, that it must permanently alter our standards of artistic effort...
...that graces British life-will be endangered by EEC membership. There is a positive dread that chattering Frenchmen would monopolize London's sidewalks, that garlic-eating Italians in careering Alfa Romeos would shatter the tranquillity of the rustic British countryside, and that those too-efficient Germans would brusquely alter the cozy tea-break routine of British workers...
Bold Goal. Beyond all this, Psychologists Klebanoff, Klein and Schleifer have a bold and touching goal: to alter the temper of the nation by influencing normal as well as abnormal children. Explains Klebanoff: "Maybe that's the mission of these disabled kids-if normal schoolkids see a child in braces struggling to overcome his problems, maybe things won't look so bad to them, and maybe they'll be inspired to help. I hope it might make a more gentle America. It sure can't hurt...
...past year was filled with anxiety in its passage. Yet in retrospect it appears to have been a constructive period when attitudes began to alter, and restorative forces have reasserted themselves...