On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

Books A Peripatetic Conscience by V. S. Pritchett.

The Talk of the Town Garland Jeffreys by Jamaica Kincaid. Writer attended a concert of Garland Jeffreys, a thirty-four-year-old New York songwriter and performer, in Alice Tully Hall, at Lincoln Center. A few days after this, Garland Jeffreys invited the writer to drive out with him to Sheepshead Bay, in Brooklyn, where he grew up. He is...

Comment by Sara Spencer. Comment about a colleague who rides a bicycle to sork from her home in Greenwich Village. On the way home she passes the tower of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. A. J. Liebling wrote a reminiscent piece about it a number of years ago. The tower figured in a science...

Musical Events Concert Records by Winthrop Sargeant.

Fiction Okinawa's Wife by Sybil Claiborne. The Colonel is retired but he keeps busy dusting his collections and organizing household tasks. His wife is left with little to do so she sends for a course in testimonials, or rating products. He listens to a radio show, "Tell It Like It Is," on which people, using assumed...

Fiction Avelino Arredondo by Jorge Luis Borges. Tells about how Avelino Arredondo, in Montevido, Uruguay, assassinated the president, Juan Idiarte Borda. He planned it carefully, telling his companions that he was going to the country for a while and bidding them and his fiancee goodbye. He stayed hidden in his house for a period of time. After...

The Talk of the Town The Thracians by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Thracian Treasures from Bulgaria." Mr. Alexander Minchev, archeologist and scholar and travelling curator of the exhibit, tells about Ancient Thrace, which included the southern part of modern Bulgaria, and about several artifacts on view at the museum...

Dancing By Strauss by Arlene Croce.

A Reporter at Large Coming into the Country~IV by John McPhee. REPORTER AT LARGE about the upper Yukon region of Alaska and the bush community of Eagle. It is said to be the best-looking town in Alaska. Describes its beautiful setting on the Yukon River. The city's budget this year is $37000. Eagle was the first incorporated city in interior...

The Talk of the Town Ellis Island by Victor Chen. Talk story about Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay. Once an immigration station, the island is now open to the public for warm-weather visits, under the regulations of the National Park Service...

The Current Cinema A HEAD FOR AN EYE: OR, FASHION FINALS IN "THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT" by Penelope Gilliatt.

Poetry July, Against Hunger by Maxine Kumin. All week the rain holds off. We sweat...

Poetry Still by Daniel Halpern. I hear callers in the trees...

Poetry After Edward Hopper by Lawrence Raab. Usually it is night...