Cover artist: Charles E. Martin Publication Date: January 8, 1979 Page Count: 80 pages In this issue:Fiction Frank Grange, Fictionator by Prudence Crowther. An Interview by Roy Dartmouth Holmes) Roy Dartmouth Holmes first became aware of novelist and critic Frank Grange, while taking, a junior, year abroad in the South of France. There he heard Grange present his now classic paper "Toward the Ineffable: A Pronouncing Gazetteer." Holmes interviews Grange at Grange's home... The Talk of the Town The Concertina by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a man buying his wife a concertina, a type of accordion, for a Christmas gift, after she asked for one. In the Yellow Pages he saw two names in bold type under accordions: ACCORDION-O-RAMA and ALAS ACCORDION CO. Both were at the same address - 874... The Current Cinema SIMON & ROSS - THE COMPASSION BOYS by Pauline Kael. Fiction Moving Through Time and Space by Harry L. Mountzoures. Dina, 20 years old, stays in the states to look for a husband when her mother, the writer's cousin, goes back to Greece. Dina has a boyfriend named Andreas who works in a pizza shop. She stays in the writer's apartment with his family for a few days. She is... Books by Helen Vendler. Musical Events by Andrew Porter. The Talk of the Town Gala by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre's 50th-anniversary gala and Sanford Meisner 73, who has been head of the school's Acting Dept. since 1935. Many famous alumni of the entertainment world attended the gala, plus Meisner colleagues and admirers. It took place at the Shubert and... Our Far-Flung Correspondents TENNESSEE SMALL FRY by Eugene Kinkead. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about a small fish called the snail darter. It was discovered in 1973 by ichthyologist, David A. Etnier, who is a professor of zoology at the Univ. of Tennessee, aided by graduate students. It was subsequently declared an endangered species and legal action by environmentalists blocked... Comment by Sara Spencer. Comment about Skylab which is falling sooner than was expected. Heavy sunspot activity has slowed down its orbit and it will probably land next summer, instead of 1983, as was planned. A friend at NASA takes Pegasus I as an example of how the exact time and the exact place... The Talk of the Town Office Workers by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story. Our favorite highlights from "The Steelcase National Study of Office Environments: Do They Work?, "the published report of a survey conducted by Louis Harris & Associates Inc.: Eighty-two per cent of the office workers in this country have positive feelings about their jobs.. During the past five... U. S. Journal ASSEMBLAGE by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. about attempts to assemble, or to buy all property at one time, the 72 houses and other commercial buildings on the Bellevue-Texas block, the only beach block not yet tied up by gambling concerns. Richard Bloom, a real-estate man acting for the H.E.J.J... Poetry The Last Farmer in Queens by Vickie Karp. Forty years ago a saloon stood where the church is... Poetry The Roundhouse Voices by Dave Smith. In the full glare of sunlight I cam here, man-tall but... |