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William Fierman, Uzbek feelings of ethnicity. A study of attitudes expressed in recent Uzbek literature.
Recent works of fiction, literary criticism and articles on other cultural matters by Soviet Uzbek authors offer an almost untapped source of information about feelings of ethnicity. Evidence in the literature surveyed for this study indicates that Uzbeks are exhibiting renewed pride in their own land, history, customs, language, literature, music and art. During the Stalin period a dominant message to Uzbek readers was that to be modern was to be Russian; today, in contrast, Uzbek readers are also frequently reminded that they are heirs to a tradition (in no way inferior to the European one) which is relevant to the modern world. Uzbeks who have turned their backs on their own culture are portrayed as fools and opportunists. Although no Uzbek authors deny that a multinational Soviet culture is being created, some are particularly insistent that their own contribution to it not be underestimated; moreover, they maintain that Soviet culture's Asian elements are as "international" as the European ones are.

The italian cultural centres abroad, an impossible mission, Sergio Romano.
After the second world war, Italian cultural policy abroad was radically changing by discontinuing to serve political window-dressing purposes while upholding, nevertheless, the general trend towards recuperating the great literary and artistic tradition for determining and upbuilding Italian cultural presence worldwide as inherited from the Unità movement. As the authors States, this policy is dictated both by its past and by parallel endeavours by its rivais, in particular the French and German Cultural Centres whose performance is taken as a yardstick for self-evaluation purposes.

On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Thérèse Martin many historical documents relating to her as important works have been published. The question of the psychological or sociological factors which influenced her personality is at the centre of heated controversies.
One of the main subjects of discussion among authors of recent works on Thérèse Martin is the relevancy of appealing to psychoanalytical interpretations. However certain essential elements of the dossier have been overlooked, notably two major articles of the British psychoanalyst I.F. Grant Duff on Thérèse Martin which were published respectively in the British Journal of Medical Psychology (1925) and in Imago (1930).

University Management in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Various factors tend to progressively centralize university self-management with a growing encroachment by public administration upon German universities. Most factors have lasting effects and are irreversible. The scientific freedom granted under the constitution certainly affords an efficient protection of the autonomy of the body corporate representfed by universities. Yet this autonomy needs and has to be supported by an efficient, loyal, and reliable university management. Finally, the scientific autonomy should be recognized and conceived as an important field of research, advanced studies and clarification.

A recent survey of the civil service in the USSR
The Civil Service in the USSR at present shows a certain number of specific characteristics of which Mr Lazarev compiles a complete list. First he presents a consensus of the numerous educational centers founded since 1965 and of their education or specialization programs. He next studies the functions of control and selection exercised by the local soviets by the people's board of Controls. In keeping within the same lines, he points out the most recent aspects of the obligations imposed on civil servants to account for their actions to the people. His study then deals with the extension of the principle of collegiality and participation of social organizations concerning the nomination of civil servants ; furthermore, he studies the methods of objective evaluation of their activities. In the end, Mr Lazarev treats the responsabilities of the State's employees thus concluding a study of an undoubtable informative interest.

Some methodological problems raised by studies on infants - This articles analyzes, in a cognitive perspective, some of the methodological problems raised by recent studies on infants.
It attempts to characterized the nature of the interactions between the organism and the environment, by specifying the significance of the indices that are gathered.
When comparing psychological theories, there appears a breach between cognitive orientations and relational orientations.
Ours conclusions lead us to consider development as an instrumentation of biological as well as social properties of the human environment, which unifies in this way, our representations of the development of the infant.

SUMMARY
This paper is a review of recent researches on speech adaptations to the interlocutor's age observed in children. It was possible to find a wide convergence in the results of the different studies on the subject. The results showed that, from the age of 4, the young speakers are able to display such adjustments. The authors hypothesize that the interlocutor's linguistic level is a more accurate variable in the determinism of the adaptative behaviors than the chronologic age.