Word: reforms
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Second fact was that De Gaulle's proposal of an "Algerian Algeria" linked to France had neither appeased nor diverted the Moslems in their drive for independence. By liberalizing voting laws and by massive social reform, De Gaulle had hoped to win over the vast noncombatant Moslem majority, separate them from the F.L.N. rebels, eventually produce a new moderate leadership that would negotiate a new relationship with France as between friends. That hope dwindled when the F.L.N. flags bloomed on every minaret, when the shouts of the demonstrators in Algiers and Oran, in Bone and Constantine, changed from "Vive...
Apostolic Simplicity. This liturgical reform rejects the medieval practice that made the church service an awesome mystery and spectacle seen in deep perspective and culminating in the moment when, to the tinkling of bells, the Host and chalice are raised on high. As clergy and congregation have begun to draw closer together, it was almost inevitable that architects would sooner or later rediscover the church-in-the-round...
CAPTAIN CAT, by Robert Holles. An English novel, rich with lowest-class slang, in which two rebels at a military-cum-reform school discover that boyish idealism is no match for The System and the venom of original sin in which their regimented mates are steeped...
...Legislature will probably neither initiate reform nor call a referendum to vote on a convention. A petition of 75,000 names would then force the question onto the ballot in 1962 and the body would meet in the summer of 1963. In the end it might give the governor and other top executive officers co-terminous 4-year terms and shift the counties' few duties to the state agencies; it might cut the size of the General Court and require it no longer to play town council for every hamlet, passing petitions for dog wardens' tenure and the like...
...rightful authority over taxation that the constitution now restricts very tightly. Like the counties and the Governor's Council, archaic limitations on taxation resemble, in the words of a commission several years ago, "a building with a Renaissance frame and a Elizabethan facade." They will require comprehensive, not patchwork reform, and probably only a constitutional Convention could erect such a structure suitable for the 20th century...