Fiction Our Last Breakfast on Saint Augustine's Farm by Peter Marsh. The failed hog farm, Saint Augustine's Farm, bought by the Church at auction and worked by convicts, was given to Father Prior and the monks at the Priory as a tax writeoff. When the monks failed to farm success fully and returned to the Priory, Jonathan and seven novitiates stayed...

Reflections Thinking~III by Hannah Arendt. REFLECTIONS about thinking. Writer gives the answer of Greek thinkers to the question: "What makes us think?" They felt that philosophizing transforms mortals into godlike creatures. In pre-philosophic Greece men strove for immortality by means of the great deed which would be recorded by poets. Tells how this changed...

Dancing Concentration by Arlene Croce.

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

Profiles LONG LIVE THE LIVING! by Penelope Gilliatt.

The Talk of the Town Moving In by Fred C. Shapiro. Talk story about a visit to the world headquarters of Avis, the car-rental corporation, now in the new Grace tower at 42 St. & 6th Ave. They had just moved there from Garden City, L.I. Writer spoke with Colin M. Marshall, the company's president and chief executive officer who...

The Talk of the Town by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about backgammon game between George Plimpton and Paul Magriel, a professional player of and writer about backgammon, at "21" in a private dining room. Magriel, who played blindfolded, won the game. Tells about remarks at press conference before the game, and during and after it. Tells about Magriel...

The Talk of the Town Joan Armatrading by James Stevenson. Talk story about Joan Armatrading, a gifted composer-singer from Birmingham, England. She was interviewed in a conference room of A & M Records, at 595 Madison Ave. She had just arrived from a long concert tour of England in connection with her fourth album, "Show Some Emotion" and in...

Comment by Suzannah Lessard. Concerns Pres. Sadat of Egypt's unprecedented visit to Israel: "Anwar Sadat's speech to the Israeli parliament was constructed like a spiral: circuitous loops of 'rhetoric' advanced by small increments toward 'hard substance'.... One of the important lessons that Edmund Wilson taught us is to distinguish between reality and rhetoric... He...

The Talk of the Town Concerned Farm Wives by Ian Frazier. Talk story about the Concerned Farm Wives of South Central Kansas who came to town recently to promote the cause of the family farmer and to tell people about the bad situation he's in. Writer describes the press kit they distributed and tells about a display they set up in...

The Current Cinema The Unjoy of Sex by Pauline Kael. Review of Francois Truffaut's "The Man Who Loved Women". The script is by Truffaut along with Michel Fermaud and Suzanne Schiffman...

Musical Events Letters, Numbers, and Notes by Andrew Porter.

Fiction Gerry Plume Does Her Own Commercials by George W. S. Trow. Narrator watches Gerry Plume, estranged wife of real-estate magnate, Stanley Plume, act in a commercial for Gerry Plume Adult Divans. She and her male friend Sal, and her companion/secretary, Miss Sweedie write the scripts for the commercials. Gerry Plume tells the narrator how she became involved in the...

The Race Track Johnny D.'s Classic by G. F. T. Ryall. Jerry Fishback rode Cafe Prince who won the Colonial Cup International steeplechase over the 17 fences of Mrs. Marion du Pont Scott's Springdale course, at Camden, S.C...

U. S. Journal DIRECT FROM THE FACTORY by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: READING, PA. about factory outlets where tourists flock for bargains. Writer & his wife, who went to Reading from time to time, noticed crowds arriving by chartered buses, on Saturdays, to shop. At one time Reading was dominated by textile manufacturers. Most of the textile companies moved South...

Poetry Green Water Tower by W. S. Merwin. A guest at Thanksgiving said And You've got...

Poetry The Dead by Greg Kuzma. The dead are everywhere...

Poetry The Statues by William Gass. Who shall feed the statues...

Poetry After Iceland, William Morris Dreams of Panama by Debora Greger. This color, outside all theory...