Fiction The Most Extraordinary Ways by Katharine Andres. Helena meets Phillip at a party given by her parents. She is seventeen years old and she falls in love with him. Phillip is twenty five and lives with a man named Ed. Helena knows that Phillip and Ed are lovers, but she can't help loving Phillip anyway. Her infatuation...

Fiction Break by Penelope Gilliatt. Alistair Brown was a Czech child in the nineteen thirties. Wanting to belong, he changed his name to Eli. He was sent to America as a schoolboy, for safety, and when he was old enough he went to England, to Oxford, to become a lawyer. He changes professions in his...

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

Books Escape from England by John Updike.

The Art World by Calvin Tomkins. Entire column about the founding in Los Angeles of the Museum of Contemporary Art, about to be constructed there. The museum, it is hoped, will fulfill the city's need for a showcase for serious new art. The museum's board will include several artists. Its directors are Pontus Eulten and Richard...

A Reporter at Large STEELHEAD by Bill Barich. REPORTER AT LARGE about fishing for the elusive steelhead, a subspecies of rainbow trout. Writer lives on the Russian River in Northern Calif. Most Russian River steelhead are born in fresh water, migrate into the Pacific between their first and third years, reach sexual maturity in from one to three...

The Talk of the Town Roundup by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about a visit to Carnegie Hall where WNET (Channel 13) was taping "Gala of the Stars", a gilt-edged vaudeville show that is scheduled to be broadcast on March 22nd. Tells about the participants and their work, and comments made by some...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) The Camel in the Tent by Harold Rosenberg.

The Talk of the Town Now and Then by Rogers E. M. Whitaker. Talk story about a poet. A New Year's trip by E.M. Frimbo, on a train carrying U.S. Army soldiers to Fort Leonard Wood, 150 miles southwest of St. Louis. The soldiers were returning from Christmas leave. Immediately after arriving at Leonard Wood, which had the bleak, austere look of all...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Only a specialist in federal budgetary matters can hope to weigh the merits of the Reagan Administration's new economic policy but there are two points that stand out as unusual. One is the policy's reliance on sheer theory, and the other is its reliance on faith. The theory is "supply...

Musical Events Incantation by Andrew Porter.

Onward and Upward with the Arts THE ELEVENTH EDITION by Hans Koning. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 29 volumes on Nov. 1, 1910. The word "encyclopedia" is from the Greek meaning 'instruction in the circle of knowledge; the first modern book that had that intention was the Encyclopedie, which had begun...

The Talk of the Town Dynasty by Mark Singer. Talk story about the Monarch Wine Company, of Brooklyn, the exclusive New York importer of Tsingtao Beer from the People's Republic of China. Monarch, whose president is Leo Star, is also the bottler of the Manischwitz brand of kosher wines. The writer spoke with Mr. Star and several other Monarch...

Concert Records / Popular Music Clackety-Clack by Douglas Watt.

Poetry Bernie's Quick-Shave (1968) by Sydney Lea. At dawn three shearsmen...

Poetry A Clock by Elder Olson. What lunatic pastry-cook, what crazed confectioner...