The Current Cinema SCHOOLBOYS by Pauline Kael.

Comment by Lawrence Weschler.

Books by Naomi Bliven.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Calvin Tomkins.

Our Footloose Correspondents Pageant by Philip Hamburger. Talk story by Our Special Inauguration Correspondent, back from several frigid days of pomp and circumstance in the nation's capital. Gives day-to-day account of his trip, where the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was played at least forty-seven times. Writer arrived on Friday and settled into a...

Comment Comment-Part 2 by Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Darrell Cabey, 19, paralyzed from the waist down and in a coma, is connected to life by a respirator. Even before he was shot by Bernhard Goetz, Cabey's connections to life were tenuous at best. He was shot with three other boys on the subway. All that one could find...

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

Fiction Another Marvellous Thing by Laurie Colwin. Freddie Delielle was in the hospital because her baby was due in a week and a half, and her blood pressure was too high. Her doctor wanted her constantly monitored. The fact that she was to have a baby filled her with bafflement, dread, and longing. Her husband, Grey, a...

Personal History I-SOUND-SHADOWS OF THE NEW WORLD by Ved Mehta. PERSONAL HISTORY about writer's first year at the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock. The writer was 15, in 1949, when he entered. His trip from New Delhi to N.Y. by plane, took 47 hours. He arrived in August & spent a short time in N.Y. at...

Fiction Do Not Go Gentle by H. F. Ellis. Writer sits at his desk on a gloomy evening. Dylan Thomas's recommended rage is his constant companion as he reads an article in the London Guardian about the threat of alternating electromagnetic fields. There has been a plague of fruit flies this autumn & early winter in his bit...

Poetry Going Under by Howard Moss. Out here the scavengers work the kitchens/Of the sea&the...