The Talk of the Town Lola's Week by Lillian Ross. Talk story about telephone conversation with 48 yr. old Lola Finkelstein. Tells writer plans she made to occupy herself while her husband was in London on business She pretended she was at a spa, by developing a rigorous program for physical fitness for herself. Lola wanted to lose weight inorder...

Profiles A KEEPER OF THE TREASURE by Calvin Tomkins. PROFILE of Betty Parsons, 75, N.Y. art dealer. The Betty Parsons Gallery is at 24 W. 57 St. Describes her 29-year history as an independent art dealer; the gallery's heroic period was in the late 1940's & early 1950's, when Pollock, Rothko, Still, & Newman exhibited there...

The Talk of the Town Collection by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about the new Lehman Wing at the Metropolitan Museum. The structure houses Philip Lehman & son Robert's hundred-million-dollar collection of paintings drawings, bronzes, tapestries, furniture, ceramics, glass, jewelry & textiles. The collection, which was assembled over a period of 70 yrs. has been a cultural hot...

The Talk of the Town Sweet Land of Liberty by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the writer and the old curmudgeon attendingthe kickoff of New York's own Bicentennial celebrations on May 22nd at City Hall Plaza. Politicians, celebrities, religious leaders, policemen, firemen, Girl Scouts, etc., were present. Patriotic music was played; speeches made, by, among others, Mayor Beame, and Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein...

Fiction Baby Blue by Edna O'Brien. Elena, an unmarried London career woman, has an affair with a married man with two children. He lives in the Isle of Man in a large house, on his wife's money, and comes to London on weekends for his halfhearted work as a designer. They are "alike in everything," and...

Fiction Ten by W. S. Merwin. Ten o'clock and nothing here looks like night. Summer: a time past, a time remembered. The writer is staying in a squat shapeless bungalow in the woods, owned by an old woman. She is not from this country; but when her husband died, in the city, she came to this...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. There is a new breed of people in the news these days They are People. In most newspapers you can read about them in little boxes titled say, "People in the News" or "Notes on People"; and now there is the magazine "People". The distinction seems to be between people...

Fiction The Last Bicentennial Minute by Ralph Schoenstein. After Several Televised Glimpses of Our Glorious Past) Writer imagines Thomas Jefferson strolling through Philadelphia in 1776; imagines not only the twistings and turnings of his route but of his "Renaissance mind": all a mixture of the colonial and the modern. At the corner of Chestnut Street Jefferson has a...

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

Reflections THE TIME OF ILLUSION II-DIVISION by Jonathan Schell. REFLECTIONS about Pres. Nixon's 2nd year-1970. By the fall of '69 the President's assault on the press & the TV networks had grown into an elaborate, highly organized overt & covert program of intimidation. In Jan. '70 G. Harrold Carswell was placed, in nomination for the Sup. Court by...

The Race Track Ruffian All the Way by G. F. T. Ryall. There will be racing at Belmont Park this coming Sunday - the first Sunday racing ever for Belmont...

Dancing It's a Wise Child by Arlene Croce.

Musical Events Sangerfest in Cincinnati by Andrew Porter.

The Current Cinema BRESSON'S LEGEND OF A FUGITIVE by Penelope Gilliatt.

Poetry The Dependencies by Howard Nemerov. This morning, between two branches of a tree...

Poetry Sisyphus by David Galler. How many times I've tried...

Poetry Owl by Vickie Karp. There's a roof over me I cannot see...