Books by George Steiner.

A Reporter at Large I-THE CASTRO by Frances FitzGerald. REPORTER AT LARGE about the Castro, a large homosexual community in San Francisco...

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

Fiction I Get By by Mary A. Robison. Narrator is greeted by the principal of her deceased husband's school just after the memorial service. He informs her that he's found a replacement for her husband, Kit. She's amazed at his timing. Her 2 kids, Ben and Bibi, help her up from the pew. She is curious about Andrea...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael.

Letter from Argentina by Amos Elon. LETTER FROM ARGENTINA about the military dictatorship there & its genocidal human-rights abuses. The last military dictatorship seized power in 1976. It came after a number of years of terror & disorder unprecedented even in Argentina, with a lunatic left & a lunatic right unleashing upon a helpless, disintegrating...

Comment Comment, by Jonathan Schell. It was reported in the "Times" recently that in 1972, some "law-enforcement officials" in the Nixon Administration proposed the "total and complete immobilization" of Panama's chief intelligence officer, Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Antonio Noriega. The proposal was one of five options presented to John E. Ingersoll, the Director of the...

The Talk of the Town Positions Available by Mark Singer. Talk story about Pudgy Roberts, a flyer-distributor & about the people who dress up as brides, grooms and clowns to distribute flyers on the street. Tells about a bride & groom outside Golden Path Jewelry, Ltd., at the corner of 6th Avenue & 43rd. Tells about meeting Roberts the...

Books by George Steiner.

Fiction The Recluse by Isaac Bashevis Singer. In Poland on a winter night, the beggars slept on benches in the study house. A strange walked in. He was lost, and the beggars offered him food. He wouldn't eat nor would he drink wine. They asked if he was a recluse, and he said, "You can say so...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Poetry Oxford , Thirty Years After by John Updike. The emperors' heads around the Sheldonian...

Poetry Cedar Waxwing on Scarlet Firethorn by Stanley Plumly. To start again with something beautiful...