The Talk of the Town Aspects of Revolution by Lillian Ross. Talk story about the 12th National Fashion and Boutique Show at the Hotel McAlpin and the 65th National Retail Merchants Association convention at the New York Hilton...

Musical Events Java Sparrows by Andrew Porter.

Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere. When he took office a year and a half ago, Gerald Ford profited from a number of negative virtues... Tells how polls report that he currently holds the confidence of only a minority of the people, and perhaps only a minority of Republicans. If he is nominated & wins it...

The Talk of the Town Super Sunday by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the Super Bowl X, a close game in which the Dallas Cowboys lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 21-17. This year's game was more exciting than Super Bowl VIII, in which the ball was actually in play for only seven minutes. Writer watched the game with friends, an...

Cartoon The Mistress of Bedford Mews (A Mini-Gothic) by Arnie Levin. Illustrated scenes, parodying the gothic novel: From her house, Helen watches some men, supposedly from the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, about to cut down a dead, gnarled tree: Helen sees a mysterious stranger kneeling in the road, picking up groceries: the knuckles of her hands turned white as she clutched...

Dancing Changes by Arlene Croce.

U. S. Journal Some Thoughts on Where Lines Are Drawn by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL about a lawsuit challenging the policy of excluding low-cost housing in Mount Laurel, N.J. Mount Laurel is a "developing suburb." The suit that brought Mount Laurel to court alleged that the township used zoning laws to prevent low-income housing. The trial judge decided that Mount Laurel...

A Reporter at Large ENERGY-I by Barry Commoner. REPORTER AT LARGE about the energy crisis. Begins with discussion of the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics and how they can be applied to determine the efficiency of a particular kind of energy used to perform a task, and how they can be used to direct a more rational...

Fiction The Power of Darkness by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The narrator, an 11 year old Polish Jew, living in War saw just before WWI, overhears Tzeitel, the wife of Selig the tailor, tell his mother that Tzeitel's daughter, Henia Dvosha, was making herself die so that her husband, Issur Godel, could marry her sister, Dunia. Henia and Issur live...

The Talk of the Town Found by Mark Singer. Talk story about the children from P.S. 41, on West 11th Street who are collecting the small, round, colored stickers found on pay telephones around the city The writer accompanied the children on a "sticker harvest." None of them knew who put the stickers on the phones, or why. The...

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

The Current Cinema The Artist as a Young Comedian by Pauline Kael. Review of Paul Mazursky film, "Next Stop, Greenwich Village...

The Race Track Winter at Aqueduct by G. F. T. Ryall. Dick Dutrow, the Maryland trainer who saddled a world's-record three hundred and fifty-two winners last year, invaded the Big A for the first time early last week and won the main event of the afternoon, the Cool Reception Purse, with Double Edge Sword. Dutrow then went back to...

Comment by Suzannah Lessard. Mentioned and quotes in Comment about how tribal affiliations lead to war. Burke wrote: "To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to...is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections...

Poetry Mount Rainier Over Seattle by Spencer Brown. At sunset from the Bremerton ferry we watch...

Poetry Splitting Wood At Six Above by Maxine Kumin. I open a tree...

Poetry There Is A Place by John Hall Wheelock. There is a place that yet is not a place...