A Reporter at Large SANCTIONS AND SURVIVAL by Robert Shaplen. A REPORTER AT LARGE about sanctions, South Africa & the Nonaligned Movement's eighth summit, held in September in Harare, capital of South Africa's northern neighbor. Zimbabwe... US assistance to what are called the front-line nations of southern Africa--Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola and Botswana-is currently in a...

The Talk of the Town Nature, Pt. I-IV by William McKibben. Four-part talk story about nature in which writer tells about (Pt. I) an exhibit about the Ice Age put together at the Albany State Museum by David Steadman; about (Pt. II) a lecture on the night sky at the monthly meeting of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York...

Books by George Steiner.

The Talk of the Town Holiday by Jonathan Schell. Talk story about a visit to P.S. 234, in lower Manhattan, to talk to some second graders, and to hear what they thought about Martin Luther King, Jr., whose life they had heard something about from their teacher, Mrs. Laura Schwartzberg. The holiday celebrating the birthday of Dr. King is...

The Talk of the Town 00501 by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about visiting Holtsville, NY & the Internal Revenue Service facility there... The Brookhaven Service Center is responsible for processing the returns from NYC, L.I., Westchester & Rockland counties & all of NJ & it covers a whopping 1/2 million plus feet of floor space. It was built for...

Fiction The Laugh by Harold Brodkey. Narrator remembers when he was a child being carried on S.L.'s shoulders. S.L. was his adoptive father. The narrator was a three-year-old kid, mute still but not a cripple anymore, odd in mood but able to walk. He remembers all the people in the room, his sister...

Personal History II-THE LIFE IT BRINGS by Jeremy Bernstein. PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer's life in physics from 1957 to 1960. In the fall of 1957 he went to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His appointment was as a one-year visitor. He had received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard 2 years earlier. He arrived in...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Politics and fashion have always had a close resemblance. The political person and the fashionable person would like to start a contagion: neither is interested in originality except insofar as it promises to be popular; neither is interested in the new thing unless it is also going to be the...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Poetry Tics by Phyllis Janowitz. Not as multitudinous as spiders...

Poetry Feedback by Michael Collier. You are down on your knees, but you are not praying...

Poetry After the Death of a Neighbor's Child by Liz Rozenberg. I go to the church of the SLOW CHILDREN again...