U. S. Journal THREE RESTAURANTS by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS about 3 restaurants in the town. Good Eats-Cafe is where Junction City businessmen gather for their morning coffee. Loyal customers never eat there; they just drink coffee. One regular at the Good Eats says that the group meeting there for coffee is the "shadow...

The Theatre A PAINFUL CASE by Brendan Gill.

Fiction The Conversationalist by Arturo Vivante. The writer doubts that he can reproduce his mother's conversations. The people who took part in them are no more, the house they took place in is sold. Their immediacy would be lost. He asks how one could "conjure up the many things they depended on." His family lived there...

The Talk of the Town Three Musical Situations by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about the opening concert of the Rolling Stones' 6-night stand at Madison Square Garden. Writer says Filippo Tommaso Marinetti would have loved them. The author of "The Futurist Manifesto," which burst on the world in 1909, was nuts about action, speed, aggressiveness, "dynamic sensation," artistic excess of...

The Talk of the Town Three Musical Situations by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about a visit to the Metropolitan Opera House to see the Bolshoi Opera rehearse "Boris Godunov." Hemsley is the Hurok production supervisor, and explained to writer various of the technical difficulties of the production...

Jazz New York Notes by Whitney Balliett.

The Talk of the Town Three Musical Situations by Lillian Ross. Talk story about the retirement of Goddard Lieberson, former president of CBS Records Group, and also as a director and a vice-president of CBS. For thirty-five years or so, he was an executive with Columbia Records and other CBS departments. A composer and musician himself, he produced dozens...

Fiction Old Love by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Harry Bendiner is an 82-yr.-old millionaire who lives in a condominium in Miami Beach. He came to the U.S. as a young man from Poland; has had 3 American wives & 2 children, all dead now. His days are routine; he speaks to almost no one. He Has...

The Current Cinema SKATES, BIKES, SHARKS by Penelope Gilliatt.

The Race Track You Pays Your Money. . . by G. F. T. Ryall. Honorable Miss won the Gravesend Handicap for fillies & mares at Belmont. She is owned by William and Thomas Bancroft, who race the Pen-Y-Bryn Farm...

Musical Events Opportunities by Andrew Porter.

Reflections THE TIME OF ILLUSION VI-CREDIBILITY by Jonathan Schell. REFLECTIONS about the distortion of national politics in the Vietnam years. Tells how, due to the existence of nurclear weapons, a theory of "limited-war" was developed. The theory was abstract, but Vietnam was a particular country with a particular history & a particular society, & these particularities turned out...

Comment by Ved Mehta. At the time of this writing the news from India is sketchy, but it seems that "the world's greatest democracy," home of some 600 million people, has abruptly come to an end after 28 yrs. On June 26, in a police action shockingly reminiscent of totalitarian tactics, Prime Minister Indira...

Dancing Personal Appearance by Arlene Croce.

The Art World (The Art Galleries) Lyric Steel by Harold Rosenberg.

Poetry Kin by Michael S. Harper. When news came that your mother'd...

Poetry Ask Me by William Stafford. Some time when the river is ice ask me...

Poetry Drawing Lessons by Howard Nemerov. Your pencil will do particles and waves...