Musical Events A Contemplative Magnificence of Mind by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Psychoanalysts at the Waldorf by Ian Frazier. Talk story about the recent annual meeting of the American Psychoalytic Association at the Waldorf attended by 2,000 or so psychoanalysts...

Around City Hall AFLOAT by Andy Logan. AROUND CITY HALL about the aftermath of the financial crisis (Pres. Ford finally agreed on federal help for the city albeit with many punitive codicils.) The politician who is closest to developments in NYC is Gov. Hugh Carey, the head of the 7-man Emergency Financial Control Board, set up...

Fiction Letters From The Samantha by Mark Helprin. A story told by means of letters recovered from the sunken Samantha, an iron-hulled sailing ship of 1,000 tons, built in Scotland in 1879 & wrecked during World War I. They were written by SamsonLow, 60, master of the Samantha, & covered the period Aug. 20 to 30, 1909...

Profiles NEW PARADIGMS by Calvin Tomkins. PROFILE of Michael Murphy, who with Richard Price, founded the Esalen-Institute in Big Sur, Calif, in 1962. In 1967 they began a San Francisco office, now directed by Murphy's wife. The Murphys live in Mill Valley and he has a studio in San Francisco, where he is now working...

The Talk of the Town Up the River by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the old curmudgeon going to Hyde Park in a private railroad car to see a screening of an ABC-TV 4-hour special, based on Joseph Lash's book "Eleanor and Franklin." It will be broadcast Jan. 11 and 12. Tells anecdotes about Roosevelt, which were told to...

Books Woman's Hour by George Steiner.

Dancing She Who Plays the Queen by Arlene Croce.

The Current Cinema BROTHERHOOD IS POWERFUL by Pauline Kael.

U. S. Journal CULTURAL DIFFERENCES by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: THE SOUTHWEST about the custody hearing of a three year old Navajo boy, Freddy, in Gallup, New Mexico. (Names used are fictitious.) The suit was brought by Freddy's maternal grandfather, Ralph Harmon, against the boy's adoptive parents, Ned and Mary McMillan, with whom he had been living for...

The Talk of the Town Pigeon Mumblers by Mark Singer. Talk story about the Meeker Pigeon Exchange on Meeker Ave., in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Its proprietor is Patrick Sottile, who retired last year from the presidency of the Allied International Union of Security Guards. He is 45. The store caters to pigeon fanciers, known as pigeon-mumblers. In...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. In the last year or so, the U.S. & the Soviet Union have added the civil war in the former Portuguese colony of Angola to the long list of local conflicts around the world which they have appropriated to their own purposes by supplying arms to the contending forces. In...

Poetry Onionskin: For The New Year by Philip Schultz. Already there is as much behind as ahead...

Poetry Oranges by Ronald Wallace. This morning I eat an orange...

Poetry Trying To Tell You Something by Robert Penn Warren. All things lean at you, and some are...