Musical Events Song in Green by Andrew Porter.

Books Wilid Laughter by George Steiner.

Our Far-Flung Correspondents SETTLING IN by Elizabeth Drew. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about the Carter Administration. The Carter people have brought to Washington & to our govt. a different kind of newness. Many of them are young, and still surprised to actually be in Washington. Tells about Jody Powell's press conference on Jan. 24. He said that Pres...

Comment by George W. S. Trow. We have long been interested in the process of endorsement--the means by which the appeal of a product is enhanced through mercenary association with a figure of commanding authority... But recently we came to sense that reality had begun to seep out of everyday experience and products and collect...

The Sporting Scene On Holmenkollen Hill by Herbert Warren Wind. The Holmenkollen Festival, is a 6-day ski festival, held usually on the second Sunday in March, six miles northwest of Oslo, the capital of Norway. In 1976, it attracted 800 competitors, from 19 countries. The events include cross-country races of various lengths for women and juniors as well...

The Current Cinema Where We Are Now by Pauline Kael. Review of "Thieves", written by Herb Gardner. John Berry is listed as the director, but actually was fired and replaced by Gardner...

The Theatre NO NEWS FROM LAKE MICHIGAN by Brendan Gill.

Profiles SCHONHEIT MUSS LEIDEN by Berton Roueche. PROFILE of Hermann, Missouri (pop. 2,658), an old German town on the Missouri River, 80 miles west of St. Louis. It was founded in 1837 by a group of Pennsylvania German-Americans for the purpose of establishing a settlement that would perpetuate German culture and language on the free American...

Fiction Average Waves in Unprotected Waters by Anne Tyler. Bet prepares her son Arnold in the morning to take him to the Parkins State Hospital. Arnold, 9, is mentally retarded. Bet had married his father, Avery, when they were both very young in order to get away from home. Avery left her when he saw Arnold's condition. Bet takes...

Fiction Vemler's Elm Street Group by James Kaplan. Illustrated fiction about artist Carl Vemler, variously called an "assembler," an "expressionist-collagist...

The Talk of the Town Extensions Downtown by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about the party at Special When Lit, a store that sells new and reconditioned pinball machines(Greenwich Avenue). The party was given by Joe Misiti and his partner, Pinball Patty. The pinball machines range in price from $300 to $1300. Writer met Hillary Richards and Kerry Kollmar, who...

Poetry The End by John Morgan. One gray animal walked to the edge of morning...

Poetry Two Hungarian Poems by Szabolcs Varady. Those two chairs were not really...

Poetry For the Wandering Jews by Philip Schultz. This room is reserved for wandering Jews...