The Air (On Television) Three Views of Women by Michael J. Arlen.

The Talk of the Town The Game by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about the Harvard-Yale football game, played at the Yale Bowl, in New Haven...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Comment about recalling the assassination of Pres. Kennedy 12 years ago & the present investigation of the C.I.A. revealing that they attempted to assassinate some foreign heads of state. On the day after the Kennedy assassination James Reston was reflecting a widespread feeling when he wrote, in the first paragraph...

Dancing Momentous by Arlene Croce.

The Race Track Some Two-Year-Olds by G. F. T. Ryall. The best news last week was that Forego is coming back to the races. He is wintering on a farm in Lexington, Ky., and doing so well that Mrs. Edward Gerry has decided to race him again next season. Frank Whitely, Jr. will train him...

Musical Events Orestes in Oregon by Andrew Porter.

The Theatre The Renaissance and After by Brendan Gill.

Fiction The Ship From Costa Rica by W. S. Merwin. The narrator frequents a riverside park bounded by an expressway. Across the river are factories, gas tanks and wharves. In midwinter, the narrator stands at the railing and gazes across the river. Suddenly, his father emerges from an office, and stands, looking down at a ship from Costa Rica, unloading...

The Talk of the Town Uptown by Ian Frazier. Talk story about an interview with Dr. John Moore. He & Kanya KeKumbha are professors at U.C.L.A. (the University at the Corner of Lenox Avenue) up at 125th St. The whole university, known also as the Tree of Life Bookstore or KAOS (Kanya Academy of the Occult Sciences) takes up...

U. S. Journal FOREIGN RELATIONS by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: JEFFERSON CITY, MO. about students from Iran at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo., who held a demonstration on the sidewalks of the city to voice their belief that ShahMohammed Riza Pahlavi of Iran is a corrupt and oppressive puppet of American imperialism. They held placards that called...

Reflections THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT by Bruno Bettelheim. REFELECTIONS about fairy tales. Writer thinks that nothing in children's literature, with rare exceptions, can be as enriching & satisfying to child & adult alike as the folk fairy tale. For a story to enrich a child's life it must stimulate his imagination, help him to develop his intellect &...

The Talk of the Town In Motion by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about Gunther Rennert, 64, one of Germany's "most durable and distinguished theatrical talents." Over the past forty years, he has run two major opera houses (Hamburg and Munich) and has devised productions for more than a hundred plays and operas. He is currently in New York directing the...

The Current Cinema Poses by Pauline Kael. Review of "Rancho Deluxe", from an original script by Thomas McGuane. Also mentions "The Sporting Club", based on a McGuane novel. Directed by Frank Perry...

Books Kipling by V. S. Pritchett.

Poetry Old Nigger on One-Mule Cart Encountered Late at Night When Driving Home From Party in the Back Country by Robert Penn Warren. Flesh, of a sudden, gone nameless in music, flesh...

Poetry Between Zero And One by Mavis Gallant. During World War II, a nineteen year old Canadian girl, Linnet Muir...

Poetry December Day-Maine State Prison by James Lewisohn. The falling snow...