Musical Events by Winthrop Sargeant.

Books by Robert Coles.

Jazz JAZZ RECORDS MISS BESSIE by Whitney Balliett. Columbia has undertaken a Bessie Smith reissue project & writer tells about it and also gives a short biography of Bessie Smith. The project, which is now almost finished, has turned out to be profitable as the records are selling very well. Bessie Smith's whole life tended to be an...

Letter from Armenia by Freeman Dyson. Writer attended a scientific meeting in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was the First International Conference on Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence held for 5 days in Sept., 1971. Host was Viktor Ambartsumyan, director of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory. It was a gathering of about 40 learned men, mostly from...

Profiles MOVING WITH THE FLOW by Calvin Tomkins. PROFILE of Henry Geldzahler, curator of the Metropolitan Museum's Dept. of 20th Century Art. Tells about his 1969 show for the Met's centennial celebration, "New York Painting & Sculpture: 1940-1970," & the controversy surrounding it. Tells about the Met's long history of conservatism & reluctance to modern & contemporary art...

The Talk of the Town One Vote by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about Malta and her newly appointed Ambassador to the U.S. and the U.N., Joseph Attard Kingswell. Malta remained uncommitted in the recent U.N. debate on the admission of China until the last moment. Ghana had intended to vote with the United States, but at the last moment switched...

On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

Fiction The Congress by Jorge Luis Borges. An old man in Buenos Aires tells a story about the Congress of the World, an organization he was part of when he was young. The president was don Alejandro Glencoe, a ranch owner. He had read in Carlyle of Anacharsis Clootz, who, at the head of 36 foreigners, had...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Dublin Muslin by Brendan Gill. Talk story about Rosc, international exhibit of modern art held every 4 years in Dublin. It opened a few days ago in the exhibition rooms of the Royal Dublin Society. "Rosc" is said to mean "poetry of vision" in Gaelic. The exhibit is the brainchild of Michael Scott, who is...

The Current Cinema Cheaters by Pauline Kael. Writer deplores, at some length, the way the silent films are run at a faster speed than originally, on the TV program "The Silent Years", on Channel 13, WNET...

U. S. Journal Are You Having Fun? by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL about Disney World, recently opened amusement park in central Fla. Writer and his wife and three-year-old daughter Abigail recently spent a vacation there. Writer's wife had mentioned that Mickey Mouse had a face flatter than those of real mice. In their book "Men and Pandas," Ramona...

Fiction Love: First Lessons by John Updike. Francis lived with his parents & his mother's parents. They all loved him, he suspected, because they had no one else to love. Between his grandfather & him there was a conspiracy of the powerless, a bond of detached amusement. Francis realized that love is comic, & asks no reward...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. When Pres. Nixon announced his trip to China, a number of dramatic shifts in world diplomacy followed almost automatically. One of these was the admission of the People's Republic of China to the U.N. & the expulsion of the Repualic of China. Another was to add a new dimension to...

Comment by E. J. Kahn. Comment about Taiwan. 12 million native Taiwanese have, since 1949, lived under martial law imposed & enforced by Chiang Kai-shek's 2 million emigres from the mainland. Over the years the Taiwanese have become as distinct group & their language now differs from Mandarin Chinese as much as German differs...

The Race Track Shuvee Shoves Off by G. F. T. Ryall. This has been another big year for Paul Mellon. Writer goes over some of his triumphs...

Poetry Strange Formations by Tom McKeown. Not all the sky...

Poetry Crusoe in England by Elizabeth Bishop. A new volcano has erupted...