The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town ASCAP by James Stevenson. Illustrated talk story about an exhibit a while back in the Amsterdam Gallery of the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, celebrating the American Society of Composers and Publishers, which was founded in 1914. The show was entitled, "ASCAP: 7 Decades of America's Music" and had on display sheet...

The Current Cinema MAN IN A BIND by Pauline Kael.

The Talk of the Town Greeting Miss H. by Lillian Ross. Talk story about the Nordic Film Festival, currently in progress at the Eastside Cinema (Third Ave. & 55th St.), with nine movies from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. It was organized over the past year by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, thanks to the efforts of a small staff headed...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

A Reporter at Large THE CAPTIVITY OF CAMBODIA by Robert Shaplen. REPORTER AT LARGE about Cambodia, present & recent past. 20 years ago Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the politically agile but unpredictable Cambodian chief of state, professed to follow a course of neutrality. Privately he feared a Vietnamese takeover of his small country. Today, despite his elaborate machinations, & largely because of...

Books by Naomi Bliven.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. One often hears that there is nothing rational or moral that can be done about terrorism--that retaliating against terrorism with violent action of our own is not only morally repugnant but also ineffective--yet actually something can be done & terrorism can be defeated. In fact, it's because we...

Fiction Signals by Constance Schraft. Mona and her mother are watching their favorite soap opera together over the phone. Her mother is in Hastings, she's in Englewood. She's using the cordless phone her husband Bob bought her. She met Bob when he was in medical school aspiring to be a heart surgeon. While they talk...

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

Reflections THE CHEERS FOR KEITH by Roger Angell. REFLECTIONS about baseball & drug abuse among the players. Writer says that nothing much is known for certain about cocaine use, and the highly publicized trials of 2 accused drug dealers in Pittsburg last September--when seven players, all but one of them still active in the majors, testified that...

Fiction The Colonel Says I Love You by Sergei Dovlatov. A Russian writer wakes in his apartment to find Lena, a Mongolian woman, who had been there the night before at a party, sleeping on his couch. She moves in with him without asking, doing all the chores a housewife would do. She's absolutely calm, as if she's always belonged...

Obituary by Howard Moss. Obituary of Natacha Stewart, a "New Yorker" staff member, who died Apr. 15, at the age of 57...

Poetry Song by Jane Kenyon. An oriole sings from the hedge...

Poetry Looking Out by Neal Bowers. Think of everyone leaving the city at night...

Poetry Green Animals by Nicholas Christopher. You can glimpse them at twilight...