Fiction Speedboat by Renata Adler. The author writes for a newspaper, writes speeches for a politician, teaches parttime at a city university, and is a member of a committee. We see the politics of the university at a meeting to determine which department-Drama and Cinema or Art- would teach the course on Space on...

Reflections THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS by Mortimer J. Adler. REFLECTIONS on democracy, in particular on the last clause of the Gettysburg Address with its famous triad, of prepositional phrases: "government of the people, by the people, for the people." Lincoln fixed the birth date of the nation as the year of the Declaration of Independence, & his references &...

The Talk of the Town Artpark by Calvin Tomkins. Talk story about an arts center called Artpark, a 12-million-dollar 200-acre development in Lewiston, N.Y. Its program includes both the performing and the visual arts. It opened last year on July 25th. Writer spoke with David Midland over lunch at the Frontier House in Lewiston, who told...

Our Far-Flung Correspondents Island Walk by Anthony Bailey. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about a walk around the Isle of Wight, in England. Writer's father was born on the island and he himself spent childhood summers there and still has relatives living there. Tells about the walk, including childhood memories, topographical and historical notes...

The Talk of the Town ALLEGRO VIVACE by Wallace White. TALK story about WNCN-FM, a radio station with a classical music format, going back on the air as WQIV-FM as a result of the efforts of the WNCN Listeners' Guild. Buckley is chairman of the board of the Starr Broadcasting Group which bought WNCN in May 1973. Buckley...

The Current Cinema JOHN FORD by Penelope Gilliatt.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. It seems worth noting that the regime the U.S. supported in Laos for more than 10 years has fallen to the revolutionary forces. The event was reported last week in a story part way down the front page of the "Times" which began by saying, "The Communist-led Pathet Lao...

The Talk of the Town Edible Decor by Mark Singer. Talk story about a brunch and lecture-demonstration, arranged by the Hospitality Committee for United Nations Delegations, Inc., for about 50 United Nations delegates' wives. The other morning, at the 3rd Ave. restaurant called Daly's Dandelion, George Cothran, professional florist, and Ray Kohn, an associate, gave a lecture-demonstration on...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) History at the Met by Harold Rosenberg.

Books Witches' Brews by George Steiner.

Around City Hall REARRANGING THE DECK CHAIRS by Andy Logan. AROUND CITY HALL about the fiscal crisis. Tells about the Municipal Assistance Corp., set up in June which was to sell bonds & turn over the cash to the city, to which the banks were no longer willing to lend money directly. But mistrust of the city & its present...

Fiction Catching Up With The News by James Stevenson. Items the "Times" follow-up has not yet followed up on) Among four other items: Flying High: Hang-glider enthusiast Glenn Wassfossler, 17, "took off" from the nosepiece of Theodore Roosevelt's pince-nez at Mt. Rushmore on July 11, 1973, and on his 19th birthday, "hung" over his home town...

Obituary Donald Malcolm by William Shawn. Obituary of Donald Malcolm, a New Yorker writer, who died Friday, Aug. 15, 1975...

Poetry The Nocturnes by William Logan. Clear these memories off," he demanded...

Poetry Loss, of Perhaps Love, in Our World of Contingency by Robert Penn Warren. Think! Think hard. Try to remember...