Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere. Henry Kissinger is on his way to confer with the Pres about the latest developments in the Paris peace talks Proceedings have been kept secret, but Kissinger & Le Duc Tho spent more than 30 hours together & hopes are raised for peace. One difference bet. Hanoi & Saigon seems...

The Talk of the Town Looking In by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about a visit with Danny Kaye who hosted a couple of Look-Ins at the Metropolitan Opera. Look-Ins are 90 minute programs that introduced 8000 grade school children to grand opera. Invented at the Stockholm Opera by the late Goeran Gentele, Look-Ins have been Americanized by...

Profiles THE KEY OF D IS DAFFODIL YELLOW by Whitney Balliett. PROFILE of jazz pianist Marian McPartland. According to her, becoming a jazz musician in her time with her sex & background was like pulling teeth. Tells about her work teaching in elementary schools on Long Island. Tells about her background. She was born Margaret Marian Turner in Slough near Windsor...

The Talk of the Town Weeds by Jervis Anderson. Talk story about a meeting of some 400 scientists from the Northeast who are weed experts. They spoke of ragweed growing alongside almost every country road & that it was said that the American Indian never had hay fever until the white man came. According to the story, when the...

Musical Events Bouleversement by Andrew Porter.

Annals of Politics II-INCOME BY RIGHT by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. ANNALS OF POLITICS about the Family Assistance Plan, the 1969 welfare-reform proposal, supported by Pres. Nixon & opposed by many. After FAP was announced, public opinion was generally in favor of it, although it was received ambivalently by the press & least favorably by the black press. As originally...

Fiction The Early Essays by Woody Allen. On Seeing a Tree in Summer This is one of a series of essays. He remarks upon the wonder of seeing a tree in the summer. If you were a woodpecker, you'd know all the varieties of trees, but then it would be too late to get the car started...

Fiction Tom by Mary Lavin. A woman recalls her memories of her mother and father, & her life with them, principally in Ireland. Her father, Tom, had black hair and a black temper. He made a late, romantic, but not happy marriage when he was fifty. He met her mother on board the S. S...

The Theatre Gallant Try by Edith Oliver.

Comment by Maeve Brennan. Long-winded lady writes about sitting in Bickford's at five o'clock on a winter morning, as she is having a cup of coffee. Describes how desolate & cold Sixth Avenue is as she walked from her hotel around the corner to Bickford's, which is brightly lit in contrast to the...

Books "Anyone Who Could Write English" by Harold Rosenberg.

The Current Cinema Poetry and Politics by Pauline Kael. Lengthy review of "The First Circle, a film taken from Solzhenitsyn's novel of the same name. Writer discusses both the film and the writer...

Poetry Comfort by Richard Shelton. do not worry...

Poetry Rouault by Van K. Brock. He hangs from a gibbet...