The Talk of the Town Cab Story by Susan Lardner. Talk story about Janet, who often shares taxis with strangers. Writer shares a cab with Janet, who tells about her various adventures in taxis and with cab drivers. Janet has given her phone number to many cab drivers and her phone is always ringing. Janet worries about getting old and...

Fiction Potter by Mavis Gallant. Piotr, a 41 year old Polish poet, falls in love with Laurie Bennett, a young Canadian who lives in Paris. Piotr, is entranced by her cheerfulness, her carelessness, her sense of freedom. Piotr met Laurie through his cousin, Marek, an emigre bachelor who works in a travel agency. Piotr and...

Dancing Higher and Higher by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Default by Mark Singer. Talk story about the meaning of default and the consequences for New York City, should default accur. The simplest definition of default is that, default would happen if the City of New York failed to satifify its debts as they came due.. Tells what would happen when the city's creditors...

The Talk of the Town The Royal Pavilion by Kennedy Fraser. Talk story about the opeining of the exhibition of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. The exhibition includes furniture, drawings, decorative objects from the Royal Pavilion, built by the Prince of Wales, later George IV. The interior of the Pavilion was designed by the firm of...

The Current Cinema OH, ANOMIE I LOVE YOU by Pauline Kael.

Reflections REMEMBRANCE OF MODERATES PAST by Calvin Trillin. REFLECTIONS on desegregation in the South in the 60's recalled by the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearings for Griffin Bell as Attorney General. Bell has described himself as a moderate and has said that he worked to delay desegregation. As counsel for Governor Vandiver in Georgia, in the late...

Books The Heaven of an Old Home by John Updike.

A Reporter in Europe MADRID by Jane Kramer. A REPORTER IN EUROPE about Spain. "Transicion" is the word used by the government to cover the tensions of preparing for the country's first free elections since the 1930's: elections to be held at the discretion of rulers whose power is still for all practical purposes absolute. Madrid is...

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

Fiction My Mao by Veronica Geng. Parody of reminiscences by women of their love affairs with famous men, ie, "A Loving Gentleman: The Love Story of William Faulkner and Meta Carpenter," and "Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower." Writer reveals her affair with Mao tze-tung, which began in 1966...

Comment by Veronica Geng. Ske?tic: The Magazine of Opposing Views" presents and discusses 20 unpopular ideas. Writer says that the magazine, published in Santa Barbara, Ca., presents ideas which are unpopular because they are"retrograde drivel." Writer suggests using the high-school yearbook model for classifying ideas, i.e., Most Pep, Best Dancer, Best...

Musical Events Catching Up by Andrew Porter.

The Race Track A Hunch that Clicked by G. F. T. Ryall. Mrs. Karen Taylor's three-year-old colt, Seattle Slew, ridden by Cruguet, trained by Billy Turner, at the Hialeah meeting, won his first gallop under colors as a three-year-old...

Poetry The Miracle by Philip Levine. The man staring into the fire...

Poetry The Academey by Alastair Reid. I do not think of the academy...