Books December Seventh by Naomi Bliven.

The Talk of the Town Cage by Gardner Botsford. Talk story about spending two hours Saturday before last at the "Wall-to-Wall John Cage and Friends" concert at the Symphony Space on Broadway at 95th St. The admission-free event was billed as "a seventieth-birthday tribute" to Cage, and included many, many works by him and by...

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

Fiction I Loved the Garish Days by Lynn Caraganis. Writer reminisces about the time she went to her first important party, at age seventeen. It was in February, 1936. She was employed, at the time, making hats, at the Irving Hulder Company. After work on Friday, she went to a store on 33rd St. that was undergoing liquidation and...

Holidays Highlights of the Corporate Calendar by Jack Ziegler. Seven drawings of holidays such as "The Blessing of the Boardroom (first Monday in January)"; "Silly Socks Day (Friday before Labor Day)"; "Annual Memo Disclosure Day (Third Wednesday in October)", etc...

Personal History FAMILY MATTERS II-THE KIDS by Burton Bernstein. PERSONAL HISTORY about the children of Jennie and Sam Bernstein. Lenny was their first-born, then Shirley, then Burton, the writer. From the beginning Lenny was special. Asthmatic, sensitive, intelligent, he left a deep impression on everyone. Tells how at age 10 he invented a kingdom and a language called...

Fiction In Constant Flight by Elizabeth Tallent. Jennifer is an oboist who lives alone in a trailer is the mountains outside Boulder. Colorado. Her ex-husband, Gregory, is an astronomer who discovered a hidden moon near Saturn. Gregory called her to invite her to the planetarium where he works to see the pictures of Saturn which would...

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

U. S. Journal THY NEIGHBOR'S ROOF by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: SANTA FE, N.M., about a dispute between Jesse Merlan and Maurice and Gloria Weisberg over the style of the Weisberg'a roof. In Santa Fe's historic east side, houses are required by ordinance to have flat roofs. The Weisberg's roof is vaulted, but they won their appeals before the...

Musical Events Cantate Domino by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town In the Hole by Mark Singer. Talk story about the excavation shaft at Sixty-third Street and Second Avenue and the men who work there, building a subway. Men who work on subway tunnels are called sandhogs. One member of the crew is named Brian Mynes. He used to be a mucker, which is the term...

The Talk of the Town Ninth Avenue by James Stevenson. Talk story about the things the writer saw on Ninth Avenue late one afternoon, between 39th & 40th Streets. Sights included: live carp in a large tank at the Sea Breeze Fish Store; a woman shaking out the doormat at the Centennial Funeral Home; a young man walking by...

The Talk of the Town Shrines by Alastair Reid. Talk story about a desk writer likes to visit three or four times a year, a desk of such magnificence that it can easily bear the weight of being a shrine. Writer recalls a magazine article about the offices of certain men of power. The single thing that the offices...

Comment by John Malcolm Brinnin. A friend of ours who knew Dylan Thomas went to Westminster Abbey for the "unveiling and dedication of a memorial" to the poet on March 1st -- the day on which Wales honors St. David, its patron saint. Gives his report...

Poetry Eclogue IV: Winter by Joseph Brodsky. Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas; magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo...

Poetry Cardinals by John Engels. I see the cardinal from the kitchen window...