Fiction Where I'd Quit by Janet Kauffman. The narrator, Gordie, has a machine shop where Mrs. Milan would drive past, and even stop in if her husband happened to be there, for a job on his tractor or whatever. Meeting her was no accident. She'd park on the shoulder of the road, and would walk in the...

The Theatre RADICALS REDUX by Edith Oliver.

The Sporting Scene II-RACING THROUGH PARADISE by William F. Buckley. THE SPORTING SCENE about continuging the four-week sail across the Pacific in June, 1985...

Fiction Wedding by Gwyneth Cravens. Marty, the narrator, is a middle-aged divorcee who lives alone in a Manhattan studio, and is a substitute teacher in Manhattan schools. Her mother called to tell her that Amelia, Marty's daughter, was getting married the next day. Marty pretended to know. Later, Amelia called. Marty is deciding what...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Profiles THE ABSOLUTE BEGINNING by E. J. Kahn. PROFILE about Dwayne Orville Andreas, the chief executive officer of the commodities multinational Archer Daniels Midland Company, who is also known, not without good reason, as the Soybean King. ADM in fiscal 1986 had sales of over $5 billion... Tells about the history of soybean farming in the US &...

In the South Bronx 6,000 Hours by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a visit to Special Public School 31, on the Grand Concourse in the South Bronx, which is also known as the William Lloyd Garrison Elementary School--a designation authorized by the local community school board in recognition of the school's innovative programs. The school is now nationally...

Letter from Washington by Elizabeth Drew. The Reagan Adm. is in terrible shape. Of late, it has seemed almost clinically dysfunctional. This does not mean that it cannot take action; in fact, one concern in Washington is that it might take some foreign action for action's sake. At the moment we have a collection of top...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. In the aftermath of the takeover of the Senate by the Democrats & the tangled revelations of the secret foreign policy being run by White House aides, observers are trying to make out the new shape of American politics. Writer goes on to show that the public, tired of "conservatism...

Books by Susan Lardner.

The Talk of the Town Walking by Lillian Ross. A talk story about a rehearsal for a public relations presentation by Reebok International, Ltd., a sports-shoe and apparel company...at the presentation, Keith Williams, an assistant professor of biomechanics at the University of California at Davis, was to show slides & to talk about health research & the...

Poetry Late Love, A Comic Opera by Henri Coulette. We'll have no litany of our aches and pains...

Poetry Partial Accounts by William Meredith. Once a week on Thursday there's a souk...

Poetry The Empire State Building as the Moon by Sharon Olds. I walk the city, my eyes on her so she...

Poetry What We Hear Toward Morning by Deborah Garrison. Aunts and cousins cross the square...