The Art World (The Art Galleries) The Art Incarnate by Harold Rosenberg.

The Talk of the Town Working Country by Rogers E. M. Whitaker. Talk story in which the railway buff E. M. Frimbo reminisces about a train trip he took last summer in western Canada in order to retrace steps of a similar journey he made during World War II days. Back then, in the early 40s, Frimbo found himself traveling through Peace...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. In the week between Pres. Carter's threat to consider the use of force against Iran and the tragic and abortive mission to rescue the American hostages in Teheran, the country at large seemed to collapse into a mood of inert resignation, in which it reconciled itself to the prospect of...

The Talk of the Town Two Gatherings by Ian Frazier. Talk story about 2 expatriate Soviet conceptual artists named Vitali Komar and Aleksandr Melamid, who recently discussed their collaborative work with a group of college students in Bronxville. With the help of an interpreter and slides, they described such projects as the imaginary Neo-Realist painter and his ubiquitous (in...

The Theatre Passing Losses On by Edith Oliver.

Annals of Industry by Joseph Kraft. ANNALS OF INDUSTRY about how General Motors made the decision to market small cars due to dwindling fuel supplies...

On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

The Sporting Scene RACE TRACK I-LAUGHING IN THE HILLS by Bill Barich. THE SPORTING SCENE about the writer's immersion into the world of horse racing at Golden Gate Fields, near San Francisco, Calif. Visiting his dying mother on Long Island some years ago, writer wandered into an Off-Track Betting parlor. He quickly became hooked. Returning to California, he decided, in 1978...

The Talk of the Town Dramathon by Wallace White. Talk story about a dramatic marathon (Dramathon '80) staged in the Quaigh Theatre, an Off Off Broadway house located in the Hotel Diplomat on West 43rd St...

The Current Cinema A HOUSE OF EXILE by Roger Angell.

Fiction Heroes by Donald Barthelme. Dialogue showing perceptions of two persons about the relationship between politics and the media. The Speakers are informed, so that they can make judgements. They are difficult to make, nonetheless. Take a candidate for something. The only way you really know about him is through the media. To know the...

Books Third Eye Open by Susan Lardner.

Fiction Berkeley House by Alice Adams. Charlotte O'Mara--a young painter living in San Francisco--is distressed to learn that Berkeley House (the beloved house she grew up in) is being sold by her 3rd stepmother Blanche, who inherited it 5 years ago when Charlotte's father died. Charlotte becomes obsessed with this painful prospect, and for...

Musical Events Looking Back by Nicholas Kenyon.

Poetry Return To The Swamp by David Wagoner. To begin again, I come back to the swamp...