Comment by Jonathan Schell. Whatever its outcome, the workers' rebellion in Poland has already won for itself a place of special honor in the annals of revolt. While these members of a closed society were forming their demands for lower meat prices, higher wages, and the like, political freedom sprang up among them. Before...

The Talk of the Town Sagamore Hill by James Stevenson. Illustrated Talk story about Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt's house at Oyster Bay, L.I. The place was built in 1885 and given to the American people by the Theodore Roosevelt Association in 1963. Tells about the house and some of the things in it that belonged to the President and his...

The Talk of the Town The Cup by Charles McGrath. Talk story about a visit to Newport, Rhode Island, to observe the AmericaOs Cup selection trials, which have been going on this summer to determine both a foreign challenger for the Cup and an American boat to defend it. Three yachts are competing for the American slot--Dennis Conner's Freedom...

Fiction Timely Is the Hand that Winds the Clock by Penelope Gilliatt. At the annual conference about Christmas-cracker mottoes and fortune-cookie suggestions, in London on a summer day, Andrew J.J. Dupree, the Chairman, passes a note to Alice, a member of the board, making a date for dinner. They have long been in love, but she has been loyal to...

Musical Events The Britten Legacy by Nicholas Kenyon.

Fiction 44-28 by Sondra Spatt Olsen. Lois is 44, the mother of 2 adolescent children, divorced, a law professor at NYU. She is going to London for 6 months and has to pack, find a tenant for her house in the Village, and say goodbye to Charles, her 28-year-old lover, whom she doesn't plan...

The Talk of the Town Benefit by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about Gary Indiana, the punk poet, holding a benefit for himself at the Mudd Club on White Street. A couple weeks ago, someone broke into his apartment and took his rent money and his video-tape machine and stereo, which weren't even really his. So he gave this...

Books Frontiersmen by John Updike.

Fiction Manifesto of the MX Missilists by Ellis Weiner. All passeist, immobile, fixed-launcher guided-missile systems present such a monstrous spectacle of pathetic backwardness and obsolescence that our MX Missilist eyes turn away with profoundest disgust and contempt! From this day forth, all worm-ridden stationary-launcher missile systems are dead! The MX Era of Mobile Launchers and...

A Reporter at Large 1980: THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION by Elizabeth Drew. REPORTER AT LARGE about the Democratic National Convention, held in N.Y. from Aug. 11 to 14. On the first day, Monday, the delegates were to vote on whether to adopt a new rule binding them to support, on the first ballot for the Presidential nomination, the candidate to whom they...

The Theatre HOOFERS by Brendan Gill.

Poetry Ralegh's Prizes by Robert Pinsky. And summer turns her head with its dark tangle...

Poetry Conjuring Blues in the Surf at Nantucket by Jon Swan. There are no bluefish. Only...