Annals of Eugenics II-A SECULAR FAITH by Daniel J. Kevles. ANNALS OF EUGENICS about the rise of the eugenics movement in Britain and the United States in the first decades of the century. Those in the movement were largely middle- to upper-middle class, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, and educated. They celebrated the qualities of the Nordic or Anglo-Saxon...

Books by Whitney Balliett.

Letter from Turkey by Joseph Kraft. In 1983, in the first parliamentary elections after the coup of 1980, a new party in Turkey won a clear majority, and Turgut Ozal became the new Prime Minister. The military had created tame versions of the two original political parties, which left a void for the Anatolian masses, with...

The Talk of the Town Forty by Lillian Ross. Talk story about movie director John Huston, who was in New York to start work on his fortieth movie, "Prizzi's Honor," starring Jack Nicholson. ABC Motion Pictures is putting up fifteen million dollars to make the film. Mr. Huston is now 78, and is working as hard as ever. "Prizzi's...

Comment by Feenie Ziner. Neatly lettered sign observed in a Chicago window facing the "L": "Great Poet on Strike. Not One Word...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Calvin Tomkins.

The Current Cinema MIRRORS by Pauline Kael.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Log by Charles McGrath. Talk story written in the form of a log, about the eighteenth running of the Mayor's Cup schooner race in New York Harbor, an annual event commemorating the days when pilot schooners used to race each other to be the first to meet vessels approaching the harbor and offer guide...

Comment by James Stevenson. Sitting at a counter in the coffee shop near our office in the late afternoon and looking out the big front window at the people as they head home--in a hurry, it seems, to shed the day. One gets a very brief view of the pedestrians. They make an...

The Talk of the Town Etes-Vous Pret? by Stanley Mieses. Talk story about the New York Pret Show, the international women's ready-to-wear expo at the New York Coliseum. Writer listed Oour favoriteO business card: OJUDITH FINE/WHERE FANTASY BECOMES REALITY/NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS.O OOur second-favorite business cardO said: OLULU/WHERE FASHION IS FINE WEARABLE ART/FLUSHING, N.Y.O...

Fiction Farid & Farida by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In their youth, in India, Farid and Farida had been exquisite, small-boned, elegant, quick in mind and body. They fell in love and went to college together in Delhi, where they were friendly with Sunil, who was fat and ungainly. Farid and Farida got married and moved to London...

Fiction Directions by Saul Steinberg. Six diagrams of street signs. They are: Bypass, Overpass, Bear Left, Dead End, Shortcut, and Lost...

Poetry The Cooling Tower by Amy Clampitt. By night a laddered diagram/seen from the windows of a...

Poetry Bathing the New Born by Sharon Olds. I love with a fearful love to remember the/first baths I...