Fiction The Curfew by Peter Gordon. Story about a man who visits Lima, Peru with his wife, a Peruvian, during a period of civil unrest & about his wife's brother, who may be engaged in criminal activity... The curfew was from 1 a.m. until 5 a.m... His wife's mother lived in the Miraflores district. They arrived...

Books by George Steiner.

Profiles FRITILLARIES AND HAIRY VIOLETS by Kennedy Fraser. PROFILE of the Honourable Dr. Miriam Rothschild, who writer visits one weekend at her estate, Ashton Wold, in Northamptonshire, England. She is Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, and, in private life, Mrs. Miriam Lane. She lives in the house she was born...

The Talk of the Town Essay by Mark Singer. Talk story about the National College Fair, which was held the other Sunday in the exposition rotunda at Madison Square Garden. Inside, a huge room had representatives of the admissions departments of multitudinous educational institutions, among them Stetson University. Northwestern College of Chiropractic, and New York School of Interior Design...

The Talk of the Town Pygmalion by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about a photo opportunity the writer attended with an unnamed photographer from A.P. for a sculpture of Kate Smith commissioned by the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team... He wanted to get the whole thing done in 45 minutes --drive out to the foundry in Brooklyn, take pictures of the...

A Reporter at Large II-THE VIEW FROM THE MUSTANSIRIYAH by Milton Viorst. REPORTER AT LARGE about Iraq. Writer visited Karbala & Najaf-the sacred cities of the Shiites. In Baghdad he learned about the measures taken to give Iraqis control over the country's archeological excavations, which had been worked on by foreign archeologists. In the late 70s the govt. reached a decision...

Television The Best Me Possible by Mitchell Kriegman. Short story about a man who apparently is the next-door neighbor character in a television situation comedy... Today I walked next door to the Donnigans'to borrow a measuring cup. Don't ask me why I don't own one, but it seems I don't have a lot of the basics. I've...

The Current Cinema THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE by Pauline Kael.

Comment Comment, Pt. II by Daniel Menaker. Writer is a born & bred New Yorker who is working this fall in Los Angeles: He came out to L.A. 2 weeks ago with his wife & 4-year-old son & 1-year-old daughter absolutely determined to be urbane & cosmopolitan--to soak up new experience without...

Comment Comment, Pt. I by Charles Patrick Crow. Comment about the blizzard of Oct. 4th in diary form: The 1st communication is from a Manhattanite who spends his weekends in Dutchess County: Oct. 3, arrive from city around noon. Trees, though already scarlet, orange, yellow, still 10 days away from full autumn palette... Sunday, 4:30 a.m.: Rain --sleet...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town 83 Plus 17 by Mark Singer. Talk story about a luncheon in honor of 6 finalists in a contest to hatch an ad campaign based on the new Hebrew National salami campaign theme: "Hebrew National salami is 83% fat free." This isn't the 1st time Hebrew National has sponsored an advertising campaign competition. Back in 1954...

Poetry The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me by Eavan Boland. It was the first gift he ever gave her...

Poetry Airport by W. S. Merwin. None of the computers can say...

Poetry The Whelk by Sherod Santos. Turned up by our son's...