Fiction The Warm Sand by J. F. Powers. At the seminary, Joe embraced the contemplative life. After ordination, he is appointed assistant to Fr. Van Slaag, the only known contemplative in the diocese. The rectory housekeeper has a dog who hates men and goes for their ankles. Joe changes, becoming more active. One night while he is playing...

The Talk of the Town Two Dinners by Wallace White. Talk story about the Seventh Annual Fiorello H. LaGuardia Award Dinner Dance held at the Hilton in honor of Victor Gotbaum, executive director of District Council 37. Gotbaum was presented with the LaGuardia Award, which is given each year by the New School's Center for New York City Affairs to...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Profiles THE DANGEROUS EDGE by Penelope Gilliatt. PROFILE of writer Graham Greene, 74, interviewed from his flat in Antibes, in the South of France. His life is balanced on a hairbreadth brink between practical jokes and danger. As a boy he was put into psychoanalysis for trying to run away from school and for playing Russian roulette...

Fiction The Iridescence of Mrs. Pulsifer by Peter De Vries. The writer's neighbor, Mrs. Pulsifer, a divorced woman who lives in a house up the road, calls him away from the T.V. set where he was set to watch "The African Queen" and eat Poppycock, to her house one summer evening to watch her night-blooming cereus flower. For Mrs...

Letter from Manila by Robert Shaplen. Ferdinand E. Marcos was elected Pres. in 1965 & again in 1969, & then, since by law two terms were the maximum, imposed martial law in 1972 to keep himself in power. Almost since martial law began, the activist minority of the Catholic Church has been in the forefront of...

Comment by Irena Gross. Comment about a recommendation by Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, for "The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow," in the New York "Times Book Review." The book is drawn from 8 notebooks filled by the chairman of the Warsaw Jewish Council with records of the Warsaw ghetto's...

The Talk of the Town Two Dinners by Mark Singer. Talk story about Past Presidents Night for the New York chapter of Knights of the Grip, wholesalers to supermarket chains. The chapter, which has 300 members, meets once a month for a special dinner. 75 attended this one at the New Hyde Park Inn, in New Hyde Park, on the...

Around City Hall INS AND OUTS by Andy Logan. AROUND CITY HALL about maneuverings, by potential and announced candidates for president in 1980, to gain the support of New York political leaders. Also covers contenders for the U.S. Senate seat, which Jacob Javits is expected to vacate in 1980, including John Lindsay, Henry Kissinger, and Manfred Ohrenstein. Republican leaders...

The Talk of the Town On The Thames by Anthony Bailey. Talk story about imminent flood conditions in London. Narrator of story lives in London, near the Thames River, and recently took a boat trip down the river with a group which included Margaret Thatcher, Leader of the Opposition and Horace Cutler, Leader of the G.L.C., to explore the situation. In...

The Air (On Television) by Michael J. Arlen.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Poetry Snow by David Malouf. A stirring as among...

Poetry Years by Robert Mazzocco. They're past us now...

Poetry Knocking Around by John Ashbery. I really thought that drinking here would...