Comment by Harold Brodkey. Entire Comment & Talk section taken up by another letter from the man enraptured with the seasons, about a subway ride he took one afternoon from 86th & Broadway to midtown ... Writer entered the long platform, where people sat on benches, stood at the edge of the concrete bank of...

Fiction Dede by Mavis Gallant. Pascal Brouet is 14 now. Like his father the magistrate, he will offer neutrality before launching into dissent... At one time his father was said to be the youngest magistrate ever to fall asleep in court: he would black out when he thought he wasn't needed & snap to just...

A Reporter at Large HISTORY IN SHERMAN PARK by Jonathan Schell. REPORTER AT LARGE about visiting a Milwaukee neighborhood which writer calls Sherman Park, in Sept., 1984, to talk with residents about the Presidential election, which had got its start on Labor Day. He wanted to go to some particular place in America where some individual voters were making up their...

Fiction Her Way by Frank Gannon. Parody of the unauthorized biography of Frank Sinatra (titled"His Way") written by Kitty Kelley... We all knew Kitty. She was always asking you questions. Everybody was used to seeing her family's name in the phone book. In that same phone book were the names of many know criminals. A...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL A FINE MESS by Andy Logan. On Nov. 25 a jury in the federal courthouse in New Haven reached a verdict in the case of four men tried under the federal Racketeer-Influenced Corrupt Organizations law. They were found guilty of a series of charges that amounted to their having turned a N.Y.C. agency-the Parking...

Books by V. S. Pritchett.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Poetry From a Journal of the Year of the Ox by Charles Wright. January, --20 January 1985...