Books by Helen Vendler.

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Narragansett Park, which has been one of the major racecourses on the Eastern seaboard for nearly half a century, closed its gates on Labor Day. Tells about its history. The track is on the edge of Pawtucket, R.I., 6 miles from Providence...

The Talk of the Town Soap by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about the First International Soap Opera Exposition in the Statler Hilton. "Many stout middle-aged women with cameras and many stout middle-aged women with children" attended. Three actresses and an actor who play leading roles in a soap opera were on a dais. They answered questions posed...

Reflections TERRORISM by William Pfaff. REFLECTIONS about terrorism. Focussing on terrorists in Italy and Germany today, writer finds that they are unprecedented neither in the atrociousness of their acts nor in the fundamental romanticism and irrationality of their avowed aims. Distinguishes between terrorists whose aims are attainable and those whose are not. Anarchists at the...

The Current Cinema THIS PLACE by Penelope Gilliatt.

A Reporter at Large II-SENATOR by Elizabeth Drew. REPORTER AT LARGE about Sen. John C. Culver, Democrat of Iowa. Writer tells of his activities from Fri., July 14 through Wed., July 19. For the first three of these days he was in Iowa on his usual monthly visit to his constituents. Back in Washington writer tells about Culver's...

Fiction Apples by David Updike. The narrator, a young man, is home from college on Sunday. He has breakfast with his mother then goes out for a walk, lacking anything better to do. He picks up apples from the road, small, hard, green apples, good for throwing. His father, who moved out of the house...

The Talk of the Town Alec McCowen by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about Alec McCowen, an English actor who is performing a solo recitation of the Gospel of St. Mark at the Marymount Manhattan Theatre. Writer talks to McCowen at the theatre after McCowen has checked light levels and told the story of Salome on stage to make himself comfortable...

Fiction Parisia by Stanislaw Lem. Short story written as a review of a fictional novel "Gruppenfuhrer Louis XVI" by Alfred Zellermann, literary historian and doctor of anthropology. The novel is the story of Siegfried Taudlitz, a SS officer who flees Germany after Hitler's fall with lots of stolen money and a group of fellow fugitives...

The Theatre IBSEN IN THE ANTIPODES. by Brendan Gill.

Comment by James Stevenson. One recent morning in the country we woke up to a rain storm. We stood in a doorway and watched the high branches of the trees lurching in the wind. Water poured off the edge of the roof. What we saw was its impact: muddy pools responding to the drops...

Books by Helen Vendler.

The Talk of the Town Manning by Fred C. Shapiro. Talk story about the manning issue in current labor disputes. The once predominant pay-scale issue has been subordinated to-or, at least, is being negotiated in close conjunction with-the issue of manning. In the New York newspaper dispute, the strike followed publishers. insistence on reducing press manning. A...

Books by Helen Vendler.

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of the film called "Deal", which is about the TV game show "Let's Make a Deal". It is part of Joseph Papp's series called Film at the Public...

Poetry The Messenger by Dave Smith. It was not kindness, but I was only buckle-high in the...

Poetry Air by W. S. Merwin. Prose-poem about building a boat in a vast room that was once...