The Talk of the Town Festival by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about the Eighth Annual Avant-Garde Festival. Joe Millions, the proprietor of Colossal Cakes was engaged in constructing one of the exhibits at the Festival, a giant birthday cake, marked "Happy Birthday, Charlotte," for Charlotte Moorman, the organizer of the Festival. The cake was 3 layers high, but...

Fiction I Thing by J. B. Handelsman. These lines appear throughout this story parodying I Ching, the Chinese philosophy...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Critical review of "Such Good Friends", directed by Otto Preminger. The script, by Elaine May (under a pseudonym, which is no excuse), is full of that bitchiness which in movies is passed off as Manhattan chic...

The Theatre UNHELPFUL FRIENDS by Brendan Gill.

U. S. Journal U.S. JOURNAL: EAST HAMPTON, L.I. by Calvin Trillin. US JOURNAL about friction between the library board in E. Hampton & the library's director, Joan Ford, ending in her dismissal this fall. The Ladies on the board are members of old E. Hampton families & NY society people who have been going there for the summers since the 1870s...

The Talk of the Town Everywhere's Somewhere by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about John Lennon and his wife and co-worker, Yoko Ono, who for all practical purposes have become New Yorkers. They like the city for many reasons, and present a strong case in favor of living here...

Reflections REFLECTIONS IN THRALL TO FEAR by J. Wiliam Fulbright. Assist. Sec. of Defense for Int'l. Security Affairs John T. McNaughton, as quoted in the Pentagon Papers, measured the American interest in Vietnam & found that "to permit the people of S. Vietnam to enjoy a better, freer way of life" accounted for a mere 10% & "to avoid a...

Fiction II-New Girdle, With Lots of Support by S. J. Perelman. Writer discovered an old copy of Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days" in a tool shed on his farm in Pa. He decides to reread the book. He notices the many details which Verne includes about Fogg's life in London & determines that historically, Verne's research was quite...

Comment by Michael J. Arlen. Comment about the unusual clothes worn today by men. Writer asks: "Do you know Tootie Poindexter, the fun Australian designer who made such a hit on Seventh Ave. last fall with his new line of hand-blocked Paisley earmuffs?" He goes on to say that he saw him on 5th...

The Talk of the Town Totem by Brendan Gill. Talk story about Carl Nesjar, a Norwegian sculptor who has made a huge concrete statue at Princeton U. from an original work of Picasso's. "Tete de Femme" is carved in concrete according to a technique known as Naturbetong, which was developed by an Oslo friend of his, the architect Erling...

Fiction O Lasting Peace by Mavis Gallant. Hilde, who works for the Civic Tourist and Travel Bureau, lives with her mother, Aunt Charlotte and Uncle Theo. Her father left her mother at the age of sixty-three for another woman. Whenever Theo wants to see her at work he lines up with the other tourists. He has...

Poetry The Rain Guitar (England, 1962) by James Dickey. The water-grass under had never waved...

Poetry On Fourteenth Street by Douglas Morea. On Fourteenth Street the power plant pours deadly...

Poetry Nomad by Dabney Stuart. There is no trace I...