The Talk of the Town Museum by Mark Singer. Talk story about a museum in NJ devoted to the history of the state's penal institutions... As a rule, a visitor to the museum--which doesn't have an official name & consists of a room about 20 x 20, at the end of a corridor in the Correction Officers Training...

Comment by Berton Roueche. A friend writes: I was down in Washington the other day & I was witness to a commonplace of our times. A scream of sirens. A long black limousine or 2, a flanking guard of lesser (probably armored) cars. The cavalcade pulls up at a hotel entrance. Armed guards with...

Annals of Finance THE PRICE OF MONEY III-THE HARDEST CHOICE by William Greider. ANNALS OF FINANCE about the Federal Reserve bank. Ronald Reagan's economic program restored 3 strands of conservative thinking. Monetarism was one-it held that the most important economic variable was the money supply. Second was the supply-side argument for shrinking the progressive income tax. In order to stimulate savings...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Reflections FAMILIES by Harold Brodkey. REFLECTIONS about the writer's granddaughter, Elena, & her family, extended by marriage & divorce for a total of 15 grandparents, from the original 4... The house that I was born in still stands, in Staunton, Illinois... My daughter was born in the town of La Plata, Maryland, not far from...

The Talk of the Town The Scroll by Deborah Garrison. Talk story about the Scroll, a ninety-four-foot drawing that will hang in the Joseph Gallery at Hebrew Union College, on West Fourth Street, until March 31st and is the inspiration for a series of programs there called "A Celebration of Women and Judaism." The day writer saw it...

Fiction Low Rider by Tracy Daugherty. Story about George Palmer, a rich, young Texan who is married to Jean, 15 years his senior. He is having an affair with Kelly who represents the Central American Task Force, a group of citizens, mainly women, concerned about the violence in Central America & U.S. intervention there...

The Talk of the Town Dawn and Tom by Mark Singer. Talk story about Dawn Bryan and Tom Monaghan. Bryan's publisher threw a party to celebrate her book "The Art and Etiquette of Gift Giving"--a book with chapter headings like "Gifts for Left-Handed People" and "Gifts for the Clergy ("Remember that Pope John Paul II likes to ski, kayak...

Books by Susan Lardner.

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Comment Comment, Pt. II by Adam Gopnik. Unsigned comment about the connection between the author's marriage and the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. ...My wife and I have been worrying a lot about the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Martha and I were married just a couple of weeks after the royal...

The Theatre BULLY! by Edith Oliver.

Poetry Above the World by Philip Levine. Up through the miles of twisting pines, past...