Musical Events Beacon by Nicholas Kenyon.

The Talk of the Town Demonstration by Marion Knox Barthelme. Talk story about the Women's Pentagon Action undertaken by a group who want an end to the arms race. It consisted of a day of workshops followed by a day of protest and civil disobedience on the steps of the Pentagon in Washington. A hundred N.Y. women joined 1800 more...

Books Through History with E.L. Doctorow by Whitney Balliett.

The Talk of the Town Copland Gala by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about a 13-hour musical marathon called Wall-to Wall Copland/Americana, held on a recent Saturday in honor of the 80th birthday of composer Aaron Copland. The location of the gala was the Symphony Space, a non-profit performing-arts center at Broadway and Ninety-fifth St...

Fiction Reading "War and Peace" by Georgia A. Brown. Isabelle Outerbridge, a 34-year-old divorcee, starts reading "War and Peace" in April, 1980. Tells about some items in the news that month. She lives in Manhattan. She has been feeling heavy-hearted. Her ex-husband intends to remarry. The man she's been dating is on the West Coast...

Reflections THE CLERIC OF TREASON by George Steiner. REFLECTIONS on the esteemed English art scholar, Anthony Blunt, 74. In Nov., 1979, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publicly revealed that he had been a Soviet spy. Tells about his views on art published in the 30s: he favored govt. intervention as in Russia and Mexico. After 1938 he concentrated on...

The Talk of the Town Novel by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about a luncheon at "21," hosted by Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, for the purpose of promoting her novel, "A Man." The book, based on the life of a former lover of Miss Fallaci, is about a hero of the Greek resistance who uncovers evidence of great corruption and...

Comment by James Stevenson. The tobacco store has moved, said a sign in the window, and an arrow showed which direction. The old building in the West Forties was coming down. On the roof, five stories up, four men in hard hats were working with sledgehammers and crowbars. There was an icy wind. The...

Fiction Ellis Island by Mark Helprin. The narrator is an Eastern European emigrant, a Jew, sailing to America early in the 20th century. The January crossing was a difficult one and the reception at Ellis Island cold and impersonal; he is classified as an anarchist and retained on the island. He doesn't mind, as he has...

The Current Cinema Religious Pulp, or The Incredible Hulk by Pauline Kael. Review of the Martin Scorsese film, "Raging Bull", with Robert De Niro, based on the life of Jack La Motta, the former middleweight boxing champ...

The Theatre DOWNHILL FAST by Brendan Gill.

Poetry Parish by Norman Dubie. God only knows what he'd been doing. Painting or...

Poetry Egypt by Robert Mazzocco. The stars are gathering before the evening...