The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael.

Comment by Richard H. Rovere. From a colleague who has logged many, many miles in the air: I don't know what to make of this. It has just come to my attention that Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, has been given some scratch by the National Endowment for the Humanities for an In-Flight Humanities...

Fiction Captain Blood by Donald Barthelme. Captain Blood commands a pirate ship. There has not been one bit of booty in the last 8 months which is nerve-wracking. When Capt. Blood sails under false colors - that is to say, most of the time - he doesn't really like it. When Capt. Blood celebrates the acquisition of...

The Theatre SHAVIAN ARIAS by Brendan Gill.

Fiction Winter by Marian Thurm. Brian and Harte live in a university town in Florida in a garden apartment near the hospital where Brian does his clinical training in medicine. Harte hates the smallness of the town, and the full, hot days that are easily wasted away. After a half year of marriage she does...

The Talk of the Town Chanel by John Bainbridge. Talk story about Christie's auction of "the personal collection" of couturiere Gabrielle Chanel, who died in 1971 at the age of eighty-seven. The collection, consisting of about forty suits and dresses and forty-four pieces of costume jewelry designed by, and in some cases worn by, Chanel between 1954...

The Talk of the Town Up Here by Stanley Mieses. Talk story about Edward McGuinness, most active member of the Washington Heights Historical Society, in which he discusses the history and mentions landmarks within the Washington Heights-Inwood area. A schoolteacher and longtime resident of Washington Heights, Mr. McGuinness, 33, helped the society to achieve its goal of making Hamilton...

Our Local Correspondents DYNASTY OF THE PEOPLE-UPSET IN BROOKLYN by Susan Lardner. OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about the upset victory over Stanley Steingut in the primaries and election for assemblyman, State Assembly Speaker and district leader in the 41st Assembly District in Brooklyn, positions he had held since 1952. Candidates chosen by an insurgent organization, the New Way Democratic Club-Carl Garritani, district...

Profiles TO HEAR A ROOSTER CROW by Berton Roueche. PROFILE of Corydon (pop. 3, 107), seat of Harrison County, in Southern Indiana. It is situated in a pleasant valley some 20 miles west of Louisville. It is one of the three or four oldest towns in Indiana, founded in 1808 in what was then the Territory of Indiana. In...

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

The Talk of the Town Off to China by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about R. Couri Hay, celebrity columnist for the "National Enquirer" and the star and producer of his own celebrity-interview show on local cable television. Over the telephone he told the writer about his proposed trip to China over the holidays. He was going with Zandra Rhodes who...

Poetry Six Years Later by Joseph Brodsky. So long had life together been that now...

Poetry The Kiss by Laura Jensen. The kiss came to her out of nowhere...

Poetry One for the Rose by Philip Levine. Three weeks ago I went back...