Fiction The Occupation by Sylvia Townsend Warner. In Scotland, a group of dissident fairies seceded from the Court of Elfhame in order to have more time for self-improvement. They flew away on a September morning, and found a ruined castle on a hilltop where they stayed. One day a fairy came back from an excursion and...

Musical Events A Famous Victory by Andrew Porter.

The Current Cinema A DREAM OF WOMEN by Pauline Kael. Review of this director's film "Distant Thunder...

The Talk of the Town Ambassador by John Bainbridge. Talk story about interview in London with the Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Elliot Richardson. The writer secured the interview promptly as Richardson has held twenty-three jobs since being graduated from Harvard Law School in 1947. As Ambassador, Richardson has visited British industrial plants, coal mines, and...

The Air (On Television) The Interview by Michael J. Arlen.

U. S. Journal THREE TENANTS OF THE RESTORATION SHOPPING CENTER by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: BROOKLYN about 3 men who own businesses in the new Restoration Shopping Center in the middle of Bedford-Stuyvesant. They are: Dr. Edward Boothe, dentist; Wilbert Connell, newsstand proprietor; and Herbert Nelbett, accountant. Provides biographical data on each one and tells why they opened businesses in the center...

Annals of Law The Liberty of Every Man~II by Richard Harris. ANNALS OF LAW about the Fourth Amendment which assures citizens against illegal search or seizure of property, & the case of Alan & Margaret McSurely whose rights under that Amendment were violated. The amendment was adopted in 1791, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights. Over the years...

The Race Track Those Ladies Again by G. F. T. Ryall. Penna is the trainer for Allez France who finished last in the $350,000 National Thoroughbred Championship last Saturday at Santa Anita. Penna bought a sheep for the horse when they arrived from France. The pet sheep that was in her stall in France was not allowed to travel with her...

Fiction The Chaste Planet by John Updike. In 1999, space explorers discovered life within Jupiter on a planet they dubbed, Minerva. The inhabitants, known as Minervans, were cylindrically shaped and longitudinally ridged, like white pickles. They had no sexual differentiation and reproduction took place by a process called budding. The Minervans could not understand the interest humans...

Jazz New York Notes by Whitney Balliett.

The Theatre STOPPARD'S THEATRE OF WHAT IF by Brendan Gill.

Books Some Possible Doomsday Books by M. F. K. Fisher.

Comment by Roger Angell. Letter from a friend about the misuse of the word "hopefully." In little more than a decade this solecism has wormed its way deep into the national vocabulary. Now one commonly hears President Ford and many others using the word incorrectly. The adverb is used in place of "you hope...

Poetry Driving Home. by Vickie Karp. The birds turn once around...

Poetry Searching. For The Ox by Louis Simpson. In a 5-section poem about looking for the meaning of...