Musical Events Close and Effectual Don by Andrew Porter.

The Theatre ALL IN THE FAMILY by Brendan Gill.

The Air (On Television) Tourists in Teheran; or, Cameras in Command by Michael J. Arlen.

Books Wise as Serpents and Harmless as Doves by Naomi Bliven.

Fiction The Scent of Lime Trees by Karen Satran. Annie Goldner is obsessed with the details of the dinner party she is planning. The party is for Prof. Vukevitch, in order that he might meet people. Annie's husband Franklin, a psychoanalyst who has recently become interested in literature, had taken Prof. Vukevitch's course in Russian literature at the New...

Profiles THE ENORMOUS MIND by Mollie Panter-Downes. PROFILE of the British Museum...

U. S. Journal THOUGHTS ON THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL about the annual meeting of the American Historical Association at the New York Hilton. Fewer graduate students and more women attended this conference. One panel dealt with basic information about academic employment. A survival manual had been prepared by the A.H.A.'s Committee on Women Historians. Writer tells...

Comment by John Newhouse. The movement of Soviet troops into Afghanistan will produce harmony in the foreign-policy rhetoric of our political campaign. The question is, What is our policy toward our adversary? The measures announced by the President constitute, in the main, reprisal. There is a notion that this deplorable action by the...

The Talk of the Town Island Report by Susan Stevenson. Talk story in the form of a letter from a young woman, the daughter of a friend, who went with her friend Jim to the Virgin Islands to find work, after spending the last 2 winters on desolate Cape Cod working as masons. Jim got a job with a big...

The Current Cinema Women at Work by Roger Angell. Review of "Windows,O directed by Gordon Willis, the accomplished cinematographer: his maiden effort as a director...

The Talk of the Town Repertory by Wallace White. Talk story about the Brooklyn Academy of Music's first season of repertory theatre, a rare project in New York. The company totals 32 actors and actresses, 5 directors, 8 designers, and about 12 staff members. Writer talks to artistic director David Jones on the day he addresses the assembled company...

Fiction Report from your Congressman by Veronica Geng. Dear Constituent: As 1980 is evidently under way, I am completing nearly a decade of striving-packed years as your full-time Representative in Washington, D.C. Some highlights from last year's Legislative Session: outlawed lethal incentives, mandated pending evaluation, simulated energy. Not only have unemployment figures belied employment but also...

The Talk of the Town Dairy by Wallace White. Talk story about the dedication of a visitor's information center placed in the Dairy, a building in Central Park, just west of the Zoo. The original Dairy, a place for milk and refreshments, was designed by Calvert Vaux, who, with Frederick Law Olmsted, designed and laid out Central Park. In...

Poetry January: First Light by Ira Sadoff. It's the path...

Poetry The Delicate, Plummeting Bodies by Stephen Dobyns. A great cry went up from the stockyards and...