The Theatre Tripleheader by Edith Oliver.

Reflections THE FATE OF THE EARTH A REPUBLIC OF INSECTS AND GRASS by Jonathan Schell. REFLECTIONS describing the consequences of a full-scale nuclear war and writer's views about how to avoid the extinction of mankind, which would be the result...

The Talk of the Town Clusters by Lincoln Caplan. Talk story about a visit with Jonathan Robbin, head of the Claritas Corporation, of Virginia, which markets information about "clusters," geo-demographic groupings based on Zip Codes. Each cluster has a rank on the "ZIP Quality" scale, classifications based on the theory that "the demographic variables that define homogeneous neighborhoods...

Books Medieval Voices by V. S. Pritchett.

Dancing Starting Over by Arlene Croce.

Musical Events Close to Home by Nicholas Kenyon.

The Current Cinema MELTED ICE CREAM by Pauline Kael.

Performance Telecast by Joe Wolhandler. Talk story about televising an opera during a performance. It was the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Puccini's "La Boheme," seen by an audience of about twenty million. The telecast was sent live by satellite to Europe and Chile and Venezuela the afternoon of the performance, and shown throughout the...

Comment by Howard Moss. A Friend who lives in the Village writes about how he is worried at the influx of specialty stores and lay analysts into his neighborhood. His street, Tenth St., used to lie like an unopened envelope between Fifth and Sixth avenues; it had an air of seclusion, of mystery. With...

The Talk of the Town Talking by Bruce McCall. Parody of Studs Terkel's book "Working," which was a collection of interviews with Americans about their jobs, in the form of interviews with Americans about talking. Ethel Mattice has a voice like a bagpipe practicing to be a foghorn. She's a professional loud talker, and her speech is a run...

The Talk of the Town The View from Broadway by Katherine Bouton. Talk story about a radio telescope at the Goddard Institue for apace Studies at 112th St. and Broadway. Writer talks with NASA astronomer Dr. Patrick Thaddeus. Dr. Thaddeus tells writer that New York City is a wonderful observatory at short wavelengths, which is what this radio telescope operates on. The...

Fiction Sur by Ursula K. Le Guin. A SUMMARY REPORT OF THE YELCHO EXPEDITION TO THE ANTARCTIC, 1909-10. An unpublished account of an expedition to Antarctica, the first ever to reach the South Pole, mounted in August of 1909. The author helped to organize the all-female effort, which received its funding from a benefactor whose identity...

Poetry His Last Case by Frederick Morgan. To solve the recent brutal bombings...