Musical Events Babbitt on Broadway by Andrew Porter.

Profiles II-TAKING ART TO POINT ZERO by Lawrence Weschler. PROFILE of Southern Calif. artist, Robert Irwin. In Oct., 1970 Irwin completely shut down his operations as a conventionally practicing artist. He found he had to train himself to think in a new way. After sojurns in the desert he picked up the trail once again. Within a couple of...

Fiction Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver. Narrator is at Frank Martin's drying-out facility in California. He is an alcoholic. He saw a fat man have a seizure the day before. Now he is talking to J.P. J.P. is at Frank Martin's for the first time. It is the narrator's second time. J.P. is married to...

Books Getting Your Own Back by V. S. Pritchett.

Our Far-Flung Correspondents NEW MAN AT THE COURT by John Bainbridge. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about John Jeffrey Louis, Jr. the new American Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Writer visited him at Winfield House, the 35-room Ambassadorial residence in Regent's Park, London. Josephine Louis, the Ambassador's wife, showed him the redecorated library, and talked about other changes being...

Reflections LABYRINTH by William Pfaff. REFLECTIONS about Latin America. A qualified pessimism is all that experience permits with respect to El Salvador and the rest of Central America. The United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union contribute to Central American struggles, making them bloodier and adding to the count of victims without changing the essential...

Fiction My Love Vessel by Alan Adelson. Narrator is watching his lover at a cocktail party. He is jealous of her, and mentally gives her a variety of nicknames. The nicknames could almost be terms of endearment, but they are said sarcastically and seem hostile. "You certainly keep life simmering...Spreadlegged Chafing Dish," and, "You promised we'd...

The Talk of the Town Town Meeting by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about attending a town meeting in Cornwall a rural village (pop. 993) in Addison County, Vermont, to hear the reading of an Article which requested the President of the U.S. to propose to the Soviet Union a freeze on nuclear weapons. For more than a hundred years the...

Comment by Suzannah Lessard. The city is our lives together, what we have to offer each other, the offering and receiving that become at times almost indistinguishable, and amount to a third reality. The real stuff of the city is this third reality-the reality that comes of offering and receiving. This reality is...

Poetry In the House of the Judge weight by Dave Smith. All of them asleep, the suspiring everywhere is audible weight...