Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes. Tells about events in London celebrating the American Bicentennial. The exhibition, "1776," is a collection of almost six hundred items loaned from museums, libraries, galleries. Included is a painting by Reynolds of Lady Harriet Acland who travelled up the Hudson and pleaded successfully with General Horatio to allow her to...

The Theatre OUT WEST by Brendan Gill.

Dancing Home to Bournonville by Arlene Croce.

Fiction The Disk by Jorge Luis Borges. Woodcutter who lives in a hut at the edge of a huge forest tells about one evening long ago when a stranger came to his hut. He was a very old but noble man and walked with the help of a staff. The woodcutter fed him and he spent the...

The Talk of the Town The Bicentennial Beat by Faith McNulty. Talk story about the Tall Ships. Barclay Warburton III and other sailing enthusiasts formed the American Sail Training Association, based in Newport, Rhode Island, and they arranged that this year the British association's biennial international race would finish there. Barclay Warburton III is president of the American Sail Training Association...

Comment by Richard Harris. With the Democratic nomination for the Presidency now settled, Jimmy Carter's most immediate and pressing problem, beside picking a running mate, is finding a way to persuade as many Democrats, independents and disaffected Republicans as possible to tune in to the proceedings.at the Democratic National Convention next month. Otherwise he...

The Talk of the Town Bicentennial Beat by Mark Singer. Talk story about Jersey City Councilman Morris Pesin who is responsible for the creation of a new state park on the waterfront of Jersey City. The Statue of Liberty is only about 2500' away, and Mr. Pesin, a retired clothing retailer, feels that Jersey City is the "host city of...

Musical Events Only Verdi by Andrew Porter.

Books Flann Again by John Updike.

The Current Cinema Male Patriots by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Male of the Century", from a screenplay by Claude Berri and Jean-Louis Richard. Directed by Berri...

The Talk of the Town Bicentennial Beat by Calvin Tomkins. Talk story about "The Eye of Thomas Jefferson," the major Bicentennial offering of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The exhibition is the biggest ever put on by the National Gallery and is "an aesthetic biography of our most aesthetic President." The exhibition includes over six hundred items...

Fiction The Thistles In Sweden by William Maxwell. In the early 1950's, the narrator lives with his wife, Margaret, on the top floor of a brownstone on 36th St. The apartment is beautifully furnished with heavy, Swedish linen curtains printed with thistles, old furniture from Margaret's family, and antiques they found together in the country where they...

Profiles A Resonance with Something Alive~I by Henry S. F. Cooper. PROFILE of Dr. Carl Sagan, professor of astronomy at Cornell and the most ardent advocate of life on Mars. Dr. Sagan will be on the imaging team, whose function it is to examine photographs sent back from Mars, of the NASA's Viking 1 and 2 missions to Mars this summer...

Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere. Four of the most reputable polls show Ford leading Reagan by just about identical margins-approximately two to one. This forces the conclusion that the primary system is not the expression of direct democracy it was originally intended to be. The primaries have not enriched the democratic ideal, or improved...

Poetry Depression Before The Solstice by Charles Wright. 4 days till the solstice, the moon...

Poetry A Gift For No One by Philip Levine. Far from home...

Poetry Lines Of Sight (Henry James, Caffe Florian, 1869) by John Malcolm Brinnin. The prince, at that hour"-so he might begin...