Anniversary Woodstock by William McKibben. Talk story about a celebration at Grossinger's Catskills resort marking the fifteenth anniversary of the Woodstock festival held in the town of Bethel, New York. Writer describes some events of the weekend at Grossinger's, including a demonstration of tie-dying by the Rit Dye company, a musical performance by David...

The Current Cinema THE CHARISMATIC HALF-AND-HALFS by Pauline Kael.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Flying by Lillian Ross. Talk story from a woman who has been flying for nearly 40 years, as her husband's business requires him to travel all over the world. She always made her arrangements quickly and casually, thinking only of the best way to get there and back. She favored one airline over another...

Fiction Morris Smith: The Myth and the Man by Ian Frazier. A biographical sketch of Dr. Morris Smith, practicing clinical sexologist, who conducts research and product testing as well as devoting four afternoons a week to office consultation with individual patients. Writer spends a day with Dr. Smith (a pseudonym), in which the doctor sees a variety of cases: Andi, a...

Comment by Garrison Keillor. We propose a Copy Carnival on Friday, Sept. 28 in New York City. We got the idea after looking at a brochure for the forty-third Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival to be held the last weekend in Sept., in New Iberia, La. We began imagining all the events... "Keep America...

Profiles THREE DEGREES ABOVE ZERO by Jeremy Bernstein. PROFILE of Robert W. Wilson and Arno A. Penzias, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978. It was for their joint discovery at Bell Labs, made in 1964 and published in 1965, of what has become known as cosmic black-body radiation. This discovery led to the finding...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL BACK IN THE BALLGAME by Andy Logan. Mayor Koch had been invited to attend a rally held for Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro in Queens, but had not been asked to speak. However, he did give a short talk, since the Mondale plane was late in arriving. At the Democratic Convention he was allotted seven minutes on...

Books by V. S. Pritchett.

Fiction Perfect Combinations by Sara E. Lewis. The night Luke met Denise, she slept in his bed because there was no place else to sleep. Now Luke and Denise sleep together every night, and Luke wants to marry her. That first night she had been pregnant, though she hadn't known it. Luke paid for the abortion, which...

Poetry Landscape, Dense With Trees by Ellen Bryant Voigt. When you move away, you see how much depends...

Poetry Late Light by Philip Levine. Rain filled the streets...