Fiction A Very Special Fate by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Nancy Tennyson, an Englishwoman, now in her seventies lives in Cooch-Nahin, India. At Cambridge, in the late twenties she met Dr. Mohanty. She was 22 years old. He had attempted a synthesis of all that was best in the Hindu, Buddhist, Judeo-Christian, and Muhammadan religions and called his...

The Current Cinema Retorts to "The Birth of a Nation" by Penelope Gilliatt. Writer gives a brief history of early black films and reviews two shown at the Whitney Museum: "The Scar of Shame (1928) and "Broken Strings" (1940...

The Talk of the Town Off Season by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about the writer's off season visit to Atlantic City, N. J...

Profiles SINGING WITH THE BIG DADS by Winthrop Sargeant. PROFILE of Sherrill Milnes, baritone with the Met. Opera. At forty, Milnes has taken his place among the Met.'s great Verdi baritones. He was born in Hinsdale, a suburb of Chicago, in Jan. 1935. He was raised on a farm and lives now, when not performing elsewhere, in an...

Books Family Ways by John Updike.

Onward and Upward with the Arts NAUGHTY BITS by Hendrik Hertzberg. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about a lawsuit filed by the BBC TV show "Monty Python's Flying Circus" against ABC for showing cut versions of their shows. In the U.S. the program was at first shown only on public television. Last spring Bob Shanks, a vice-president of ABC...

Musical Events Music to Attending Ears by Andrew Porter.

U. S. Journal A Travelling Person Marooned on a Cocktail Island by Calvin Trillin. U.S. Journal: Atlanta about the new hotels in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a city in which the lodging industry has prospered. Writer describes the new Peachtree Plaza Hotel, designed and built by John Portman. Tells how the new hotels are designed to provide indoor sight-seeing. Describes the Peachtree Plaza's cocktail...

The Theatre OLD MEN IN LOVE by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Broke by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about the 1976 Inner Circle show, entitled "That'$ the $pirit, or Red, White, and Broke." The annual show, a political satire, produced by political reporters, was held at the Grand Ballroom of the New York Hilton. The show satirized the city's financial problems, making fun of Mayor Beame...

Fiction Kimberley Solzhenitsyn's Calendar by Ian Frazier. Writer presents an imaginary calendar for the wife of Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who two years ago, left the Soviet Union to take up residence in the West. All sorts of lighthearted diversions are scheduled with the families of well-known writers, artists & musicians. The frivolous tone is not...

The Race Track Bold Forbes Grows Bolder by G. F. T. Ryall. 187 members of the International Union of Operating Engineers - the key men who keep things going at Aqueduct - walked out recently. Their contract had expired weeks before. A new contract was worked out and accepted...

The Talk of the Town Learning by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about the Schimmel Collection of Ancient Art, owned by the collector, Norbert Schimmel, and on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the next four months. Writer viewed the collection with Mr. Schimmel. The collection consists of 280 Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Egyptian, and Near Eastern antiquities. Mr...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. A new salutation has made its appearance hereabouts in recent years. The salutation is "It's nice to see you." This phrase, a close relative of the parting remark "It was nice seeing you", has gone far toward replacing two traditionalgreetings - "It's nice to meet you" and "It's nice to see...

Dancing And Around About We Go by Arlene Croce.

Poetry Indigo, Who Departed Our Spectrum by John Hollander. Was she Madam de Violet...

Poetry Crayola Bear by Stephen R. Jamison. Aron sits in the room...

Poetry Under Pressure by Robert Kaven. Living without you is like living under...