Fiction Ceil by Harold Brodkey. Writer imagines Ceil, his mother, who died when he was 2. He tends to feel an almost theatrical fright when he is near a subject that hints of her. He's felt this way since he was six and learned that his real mother was dead, from his adopted mother, Lila...

Comment by William McKibben. What are the sources of fundamental change in our society? From what spring will justice roll down like water? In Martin Luther King's speech delivered at the end of the 1963 march on Washington, he seemed to have located the spring of justice in the hearts of his listeners. Far...

The Talk of the Town To Fly by William McKibben. Talk story about going up in a hot-air balloon on West 77th Street, with Joe Nicelli, a balloon pilot and owner of a firm called "Skyworks." The writer was offered the ride by the folks at the American Museum of Natural History, who were promoting a film called "To...

Fiction Order by George Booth. Eight drawings with captions such as: "Buying one-color socks eliminates pairing." "Baskets of stuff stacked against the walls conserve fuel, and get the stuff out from underfoot". "For small rooms, a table hoist is a must." "Shoes can be strung." "Discipline in the home is the very linchpin of...

Books Wars Ancient and Modern by Naomi Bliven.

Concert Records / Popular Music Exultation by Douglas Watt.

Musical Events High Festival by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Pictures by Natacha Stewart. Talk story about a woman who visits the Frick Museum on a hot Sunday afternoon in August. On other Sundays, she visited the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. With an old friend, she found the Frick grand, with a homey quality. They went into the Fragonard Room...

Our Local Correspondents CONVERSATIONS WITH BALANCHINE OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS by McNeil Lowry. Transcripts from a series of taped interviews between writer and George Balanchine, the late director of the New York City Ballet. Balanchine talks about some of his early experiences in Russia, his coming to America, and his association with Lincoln Kirstein, with whom he started a ballet school in 1933...

Personal History IV-LEARNING by Ved Mehta. PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer's boyhood in India from June '48 to Aug. '49. He was living in Simla with his family. Due to his blindness he had had only about 4 years of schooling. There were not many educational facilities for the blind in India. He desperately wanted more...

Poetry The Lotus Flowers by Ellen Bryant Voigt. The surface of the pond was mostly green...

Poetry Three Horses by Tom Sleigh. Out in the pasture, in the clear twilight...