The Talk of the Town Walkman by Elizabeth Morgan. Talk story from a young woman who writes about listening to her Walkman in Manhattan. She begins by saying that she knows how people who don't wear Walkmen feel about those who do by the way they ask her if it's a good idea to wear headphones around the city...

Annals of Diplomacy I-THE ABOLITIONIST by John Newhouse. ANNALS OF DIPLOMACY about nuclear weapons in the Reagan era. Reagan & most of his national-security entourage arrived in power with assumptions that were different from their predecessors, especailly in regard to the Soviet Union. A clear foreign policy did not emerge until the last year of the Reagan...

Comment by Mark Hertsgaard. Comment about the nomination of John Tower as Secretary of Defense. It was a great day for peace & freedom, George Bush suggested, as he brought to an end weeks of speculation by designating his long-time political & personal friend John Tower as his Secretary of Defense. Mr. Bush...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL WILL YOU STILL NEED ME? by Andy Logan. Tells about the visit of Mikhail & Raisa Gorbachev to NYC, where they were invited publicly, by Koch to tour New York with him & visit his favorite Chinese restaurant. Esquire described New York in the year just ending as "the worst place on earth." Koch replied that whoever called...

Fiction Differently by Alice Munro. Georgia lives on a farm in Ontario, Canada with her former creative writing instructor. One fall, on impulse, she decides to take a ferry across to Victoria where she used to live. She visits the stone house where Maya used to live. Raymond(Maya's husband)opens the door. He introduces...

The Talk of the Town Le Grande Orange by Mary Norris. Talk story about Rusty Staub's(the former baseball player) new restaurant called Rusty Staub's on 5th Ave. &47th St. in the building formerly occupied by Korvette's. (This new restaurant shouldn't be confused with the original Rusty's a restaurant-bar at 3rd Ave. &73rd St.) Downstairs in the restaurant...

Books by John Updike.

The Talk of the Town Gold by Gwen Kinkead. Talk story about revisiting the gold hoard of the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, on Liberty St...15 years go, we visited the main gold vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, on Liberty St. & were told that in 20 years the gold might be gone. We went...

Poetry Immortality by Irving Feldman. The tropical, vast, velvet, star-struck dark...

Poetry White Owl Files And Out of the Field by Mary Oliver. Coming down...