Fiction The Together Dude by Charles McGrath. A Guide to the New Etiquette) Social life in America changes so rapidly that etiquette guides quickly go out of date. Authors offer some guidelines to modern manners: You are invited to the country for the weekend. What is expected of you? Stay in bed until noon, get lost in...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. In recent years there's been an important change in the way things happen in American politics. Formerly things were proposed, then considered, then action taker Now action is taken and then revealed. It's much harder to stop something that's going on than to prevent it from starting in the first...

Dancing The Royal Line by Arlene Croce.

Fiction Heat by Jean Rhys. Writer reminisces about the eruption of Mont Pelee on the island of Martinique on May 8, 1902. The day the volcano erupted, the writer watched the ash fall on the streets of Roseau, on the island of Dominica. Her mother woke her at night to see a huge, black cloud...

The Theatre JUGGERNAUT by Brendan Gill.

A Reporter in Washington Winter Notes~I by Elizabeth Drew. Diary notes on national events from Jan. 2 to Feb. 12. On Jan. 11 writer notes that 7 of the 11 declared Democratic candidates are in Iowa, where the first precinct causes will take place in a week. The prevailing opinion is that Jimmy Carter is doing especially well in...

Musical Events By a Route Obscure by Andrew Porter.

Books The Ugly Duckling by V. S. Pritchett.

The Talk of the Town Fanfares by David McClelland. Talk story about watching a taping of a dress rehearsal at 11:30 AM on May 1, of the last of this season's Young People's Concerts. The tape will be shown on a broadcast sometime this October on CBS-TV. The concert was performed by the N.Y. Philharmonic under Michael Tilson...

Profiles MAHATMA GANDHI AND HIS APOSTLES II-IN THE STEPS OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHER AND HIS BIOGRAPHERS by Ved Mehta. PROFILE of Gandhi. Tells about his early life in India; his education as a lawyer in England; his involvement with the vegetarian movement there; his interest in Theosophy which led him to study the Bhagavad Gita of his own religion, Hinduism. Tells about his interpretation of that book. Tells about...

The Talk of the Town The Custodians by Rogers E. M. Whitaker. Talk story about a dinner entertaining the British Bicentennial Heritage Mission at Fraunces Tavern last week. One of the guests was Edward J. B. Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, and among other things, the author of "The Motoring Montagus, president of the British Historic Houses Association, and...

The Talk of the Town New Hall by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about the opening of the Natural History Museum's new Hall of Minerals and Gems. Louis P. Gratacap was, about 100 years ago, a 25-year-old chemist working for the Metropolitan Gas Light Company, while he volunteered his services to the Museum and spent much time sorting the...

Poetry Melodic Trains by John Ashbery. A little girl with scarlet enamelled fingernails...

Poetry Gin by David St. John. There's a mystery...