Dancing Baryshnikov Among Sylphs by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Golfer by Brendan Gill. Talk story about the director-playwright George Abbott. He received a standing ovation when he presented an award at the Tony ceremonies held at the newly christened Gershwin Theatre. The 1936 musical comedy "On Your Toes," of whose book Abbott was a co-author, with Rodgers & Hart and whose...

Books Justice and Prosperity by Lincoln Caplan.

Fiction Gandhi at the Bat by Chet Williamson. Parody about Gandhi's 1933 visit to the States which was written by an anonymous press-box denizen of the day. Mayor John J. O'Brien invited M.K. "Mahatma" Gandhi to see the Yanks play Philadelphia up at The House That Ruth Built. Gandhi did not know anything about baseball. He remarked...

Comment by William McKibben. Writer visits the new Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington and then walks to the nearby Lincoln Memorial, pondering their juxtaposition and the very obvious things they say about wars and how our country should undertake them. The wisdom in the eyes of the statue in the Lincoln Memorial is sad...

The Talk of the Town Newport Desks by Faith McNulty. Talk story about desks made in Newport, Rhode Island, more than 200 years ago. 2 were recently auctioned in N.Y. and broke all previous records for prices paid for American furniture. The first was sold at Sotheby's in January for 687,500 dollars. Desk No. 2 was sold in June at...

Musical Events Tumult of Mighty Harmonies by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Futurists by Wallace White. Talk story about a meeting of the New York chapter of the World Future Society in the Governor Lehman Room of the Williams Club, on East Thirty-Ninth Street. There were about forty people. Many members think that by the year 2000 people will be using space travel on a...

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

Jazz Whiz Kid by Whitney Balliett.

A Political Journal by Elizabeth Drew. Congress's recent decision to approve going ahead with the MX missile is the story of well-intentioned people acting out a combination of "responsibility" with their desire to position themselves politically, and political fear. Almost none of those who made the President's victory possible thought the MX was a good...

Fiction In France by Andrea Lee. Sarah, a pretty, light-skinned black girl from Philadelphia, graduated Harvard at 21. When her father died of a stroke, she discarded and loathed everything that made up her past and left to study French in Lausanne. She didn't intend to return. In Montreux, she met Philippe Durier and quit...

Poetry Summer Solstice, New York City by Sharon Olds. By the end of the longest day of the year he could...

Poetry In Passing by Stanley Plumly. On the Canadian side--we're standing far enough away...