Musical Events Children of the Light by Andrew Porter.

The Theatre CONSOLATIONS OF MEMORY by Brendan Gill.

Profiles by Calvin Tomkins. PROFILE of Philip Johnson, the most elegant architect of his time, who, with John Burgee, heads the architectural firm Johnson/Burgee, a relatively small firm formed in 1967. With offices in the Seagram Building in New York, the firm has projects all over the world. Johnson and Burgee are now...

Fiction To Yearn Is Subhuman, To Forestall Divine by S. J. Perelman. Roland Portfolio's nephew, a young filmmaker named Strobe Fischbyne, meets with the narrator to discuss his idea for a film. They meet at a coffeehouse, in Greenwich Village, called The Loony Bin. Strobe tells the narrator that he plans to make a film about jeans, the symbol of youth's revolt...

The Talk of the Town Rauschenberg by Calvin Tomkins. Talk story about the artist, Robert Rauschenberg. A retrospective exhibition of his work is at the Museum of Modern Art, and the Manhattan galleries, the Castelli, Sonnabend, Getler-Pall, and the Blum-Helman are also showing his work. The Smithsonian Institution organized the retrospective at MOMA, and named Rauschenberg the...

Fiction Elka and Meir by Isaac Bashevis Singer. In Poland, before WWI, Meir Bontz, a former thief, works at the Warsaw Benevolent Burial Society, which provides shrouds and burial plots for the indigent dead. He is unhappily married, but is having an affair with his co-worker, Red Elka, who always jokes about death and banters with the...

The Current Cinema In Passage by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of his film "Cross of Iron...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. His horse Shy Dawn won the Vagrancy Handicap at Aqueduct...

A Reporter at Large SECOND PHASE by Elizabeth Drew. REPORTER AT LARGE about the second phase of the Carter Administration when it began to come to terms with the complexities of governing. Tells what the President's goals were. But the Carter team had to respond to the initiatives of others & some had to be dropped. Discussion of the...

The Talk of the Town Grocery by Israel Shenker. Talk story about Leibel Bistritzky, a kosher grocery store owner, who hold a daily prayer session, a mincha, in his store every day at 4 PM. The store, at 27 1/2 Essex Street, is closed to customers for the 10 minute service. He started this custom 7 years ago after...

Annals of Higher Education A TIGER BY THE TAIL by E. J. Kahn. ANNALS OF HIGHER EDUCATION about the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, or CAP, a conservative group of Princeton alumni which has conducted a campaign criticizing their old school for nearly five years. CAP has deplored what they see as a dangerous trend toward liberalism at Princeton and away from the affirmation...

Comment by Suzannah Lessard. A visitor from a foreign land might ask why we continue to torture ourselves by listening to and thinking about Richard Nixon, a man whose wrongdoing and lack of moral stature have been so thoroughly exposed One reason is that we have never been able to answer the question of...

The Talk of the Town Eleven Seconds by Calvin Tomkins. Talk story about the first rehearsal for Twyla Tharp's piece for 49 non-dancers and Twyla called "Half the One Hundreds" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in the Lepercq Space, on the second floor, which was the Academy's Grand Ballroom. Celebrities participated in the dance, which consists of 50...

Books Down Under by George Steiner.

Poetry Little Black Heart of the Telephone by Robert Penn Warren. That telephone keeps screaming its little black heart...

Poetry Jade by Phyllis Thompson. For a time...

Poetry Riposte by William Walden. In "Quarante-trois Contes Litteraires...