Fiction by Saul Bellow. Woody Selbst, a tile contractor in South Chicago, mourns the death of his Jewish father, Morris. When Woody was 14, Morris took off with Halina, a Polish woman, leaving his Christian wife, his converted son, and two daughters. On the Sunday following his father's burial, Woody thinks about the time...

The Talk of the Town Quick by Lillian Ross. Talk story about a flight on the British Airways Concorde from London to New York. The writer had travelled to Europe this summer with her 12-year-old son, missed their plane connection home & decided to fly back via the Concorde. She describes their day of leisure in London...

The Talk of the Town How to Walk by Mark Singer. Talk story about walking tour of Fifth Ave. which began at the Frick Collection and ended at 91 St. before the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. The walk was publicized by C. Carson Conrad, Executive Director of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports(who also attended) and the Kinney Shoe...

A Reporter at Large THE ACCIDENT by Susan Sheehan. A REPORTER AT LARGE about a car accident involving the writer's husband, Neil Sheehan, Sheehan, a writer, was driving to Oakland(Maryland to borrow a friend's jeep stations wagon during a snowstorm on Nov. 25, 1974 in the evening. He was badly hurt when a car driven by Darwin Earl...

Comment by James Stevenson. At six o'clock in the evening on Primary Day, from a bench on the corner of 72nd St. and Central Park West, the prediction is: rain any minute. A Hugh Carey poster quivers in the wind, the flag on the Dakota twirls and leaps. Everyone except the joggers is preoccupied...

The Current Cinema FEAR OF MOVIES by Pauline Kael. CURRENT CINEMA essay about American audiences' fear of movies--especially movie violence. America has developed a new cultural puritanism in the wake of Vietnam "Distinguished viewers" want only the placidity of "nice" art and all violence is abhored self-righteously. They don't want to be swept away or given new...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL SEMIFINAL by Andy Logan. Former State Appellate Court Justice Dolores Denman ran for state attorney general in the Democratic Primary against Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams. She lost by a two-to-one margin. At the Democratic Convention last June, in a maneuver designed to show that the Party had nothing against upstaters or...

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt.

Fiction Metamorphosis by Ruth Domino. The writer tells of an incident in her childhood in North Germany at the time of World War I. She and her sister, who was 8 - a year and a half younger than she - walked to school along a straight, long avenue. A tram went along it but few cars...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Last Thursday, the N.Y. Racing Association asked the Racing and Wagering Board's permission to extend its schedule of meetings next year to 313 days, with racing every Sunday except Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, and races on the Tuesdays of those two weeks to make up for the quiet weekends...

Books by V. S. Pritchett.

The Current Cinema Fear of Movies by Pauline Kael. Interiors" discussed in long essay on American audiences' fear of movies - especially movie violence...

Fiction Alani Beach Now by George W. S. Trow. Short story in the form of an advertising pitch for an ecologically devasted resort at Alani Beach. Tells about the resuscitated Hotel Reine-American...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Poetry Torso by Joseph Brodsky. If suddenly you walk on grass turned to stone...

Poetry At Seven Thousand Feet by Judith Kroll. Every day it is a little nearer...