Comment by Jonathan Schell. There seems to be no end to the amount the world can learn from the Poles. Through the actions of the Solidarity movement, they have refreshed the spirit of freedom everywhere. Although they do not call themselves revolutionaries, what they have accomplished goes far deeper than the accomplishments of most...

A Reporter at Large THREE MILE ISLAND I-CLASS NINE ACCIDENT by Daniel Ford. REPORTER AT LARGE about the accident on Mar. 28, 1979, at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 nuclear power plant, ten miles southeast of Harrisburg, Pa. The accident is regarded as the worst in the history of commercial nuclear power. There is a type of accident that can jeopardize the...

The Theatre POT ROAST AND OTHER MAJOR FEMINIST PROBLEMS by Brendan Gill.

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Review of "Atlantic City", a new comedy film by John Guare. Writer discusses Guare's plays for the theatre, as well as this film...

Dancing Masterpiece Theatre by Arlene Croce.

Letter from Tokyo by Robert Shaplen. In the 35 years since World War II Japan has emerged as an economic superpower. This dominance of the international economy has not been matched by an equal role in the military and political affairs of the world. Japan's military status is still restricted by Article 9 of her constitution...

Books No Medium by Susan Lardner.

The Talk of the Town Equinoctial Triptych by Susan Lardner. Talk story about attending the opening, on the first day of spring, at dusk, at the Metropolitan Museum, of European terra-cotta sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection. It included items from the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Mr. Sackler was present and made a...

The Talk of the Town Survival by John Brooks. Talk story about the Third Money Show at the Coliseum...

The Talk of the Town Protected Trees by James Stevenson. Illustrated Talk story about the various kinds of constructions used locally to preserve, protect, and defend the young trees along the sidewalks of the Upper West Side...

Fiction The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd by John Updike. Why don't they get married? You see them around town, getting older, little spinsters, pedalling bicycles to their petty jobs or walking up the hill beside the rocks with books in their arms. They've come back from college, back from Year Abroad-grown women but not going anywhere. Annie Langhorne...

Conversations Actors and Dancers by Alec Wilkinson. Talk story about conversations overheard during an interval at the actor presentations of the League of Professional Theatre Training Program (held last weekend at Juilliard). This is an annual showcase for students graduating from some of the country's best drama schools. Writer records a number of conversations. One of them...

Fiction The Shetland Pony by Mary D. Kierstead. Kate wakes up in the little summer house and knows immediately what is wrong, why she feels sad. Her cousin and best friend, Blake, is dying of cancer of the esophagus. Blake and his wife Louise, and Kate and her husband Tom, are spending Blake's last summer together at a...

The Current Cinema CHANCE/FATE by Pauline Kael.

Poetry Three Poems by Jean Follain. Without making any big step...

Poetry Brecht Backstage: The Good Master by Elizabeth Macklin. We hold out our paws toward feeling...

Poetry April Hemlocks by Peter Kane Dufault. They stand, each half a bole higher...