Fiction Small Strikes by Jane Mankiewicz. After dropping out of the University of Wisconsin in Madison and getting fired from a job with the State Dept. of Labor, Sarah, 20 years old, decides to work for the United Farm Workers in California. Cesar Chavez and the grape pickers have a cause she can believe in. She...

Profiles I-THE SEARCH by Robert Coles. PROFILE of Walker Percy, 62, philosopher&writer. Percy, a doctor who has never practiced medicine, has made the study of philosophy&related disciplines his life's work. He lives with his wife in Covington, Louisiana. His first novel, "The Moviegoer," published when he was 45, won the 1962 National...

Fiction Momma by Donald Barthelme. Dialogue between two children about Momma. Momma didn't 'low no clarinet played in here, they say. "We didn't care what Momma didn't 'low.--Played that dang thing anyhow..." They were wrong in their studied breaches of Momma's prohibitions. Momma had mauve moods, carried weapons, and wouldn't come when you cried...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Comment on the wonderful news from Camp David which, in our all but newspaperless town, was conveyed mainly on television. During the announcement of agreements by Pres. Carter, Pres. Sadat, and Prime Minister Begin, the world was transformed into a global amphitheatre or a vast church. For all that, we...

Affairs of State by Richard H. Rovere. Analysis of the Camp David summit meeting for which Pres. Carter took the initiative and made contact with Prime Minister Begin of Israel & Pres. Sadat of Egypt for an exchange of valued things - of which the most valued were security for Israel & the repossession by Egypt of territories...

Comment by John Brooks. That durable tragicomedy, "The Stock Market Story; or Boom and Bust in Quick Succession," has been unfolding a new act in Wall St. lately, where gambling-casino stocks have been the rage since legalized gambling began in Atlantic City in May. A Long Island bagel baker named Jerry Steurman walked...

The Theatre OUT OF THE PAST by Brendan Gill.

Foreign Affairs Moment in History by Lola Finkelstein. Talk story about interview with Moshe Dayan, Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs, following the Mideast summit peace conference at Camp David. The meeting was the result of a year of secret meetings. Dayan said President Carter was wonderful, intelligent, and tenacious; he was not going to let anybody leave until...

The Talk of the Town Tut Tickets by Wallace White. Talk story about standing in line for tickets to the "Treasures of Tutankhamun" exhibition on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Dec. 20th through April 15th. A British lady in line talked about the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 by archeologist Howard Carter and George Herbert, Fifth...

The Current Cinema FORTY-EIGHT CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A DIRECTOR by Pauline Kael. CURRENT CINEMA review of Robert Altman's "A Wedding." "Nashville" was a pivotal point for Altman and since then, in "Buffalo Bill and the Indians" and "3 Women," his wanting to make movies has become more a nervous reflex than a creative drive...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Books by Naomi Bliven.

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Jerome M. Torsney's Mac Diarmida won the 86th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes a couple of Sundays ago...

Poetry The Cross by Robert Penn Warren. Once, after storm, I stood at the cliff head...

Poetry Vespers by Alex Stevens. By the light of tall candles...