The Current Cinema THE WHEEL OF TIME by Brendan Gill.

A Reporter at Large The Great and Terrible Wilderness-III by Burton Bernstein. REPORTER AT LARGE about the writer's continuing 1978 trip through the Sinai with Dr. Clinton Bailey as guide and translator. Tells about the achievement of one of the writer's prime objectives - an early-morning climb to the mines atop Serabit. Tells about the ruins there & discusses inscriptions found there...

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

The Talk of the Town Birding by Robert Bingham. Talk story about Russell W. Peterson, new president of the National Audubon Society. Writer talks to Peterson during an outing for bird-watchers in the Ramble of Central Park. Peterson tells about his background as a politician and his involvement in conservation issues, interrupting himself occasionally to point out certain...

The Talk of the Town Unveiling by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about a gathering of sports personalities, newsmen and women, politicians, and Cardinal Cooke to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Madison Square Garden. A bronze statue of the goddess Diana was unveiled. Gives locations of the 3 other Madison Sq. Gardens before this one. Jack Dempsey and Joe...

The Theatre DEBUT by Brendan Gill.

Comment by Suzannah Lessard. A friend of ours, a woman in her fifties who lives on Long Island and had been to the recent demonstration against a nuclear power plant under construction in Shoreham, stopped by to tell us about it. She said it was pouring rain last Sunday and the demonstration was held...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Cartoon A Bestiary by Douglas Florian. Seven drawings illustrating the characteristics of unusual living creatures...

The Talk of the Town Progress by Mark Singer. Talk story about the Int'l Inventors Expo '79 at the Statler Hilton. The Laminated Fountain Toothbrush with Barrier, designed by Jack Reitknecht, is a toothbrush with a toothbrust container inside the handle of the toothbrush. This invention was exhibited at the Inventors Expo. A patented slide within the boothbrush handle...

Fiction Gypsies by Arturo Vivante. A family lives in a country house in Tuscany. From time to time gypsies stop at the house and beg for food, and this makes the cook and maid fearful. The owners pay little attention to the gypsies' visits. The owner's daughter, in her twenties, affects the appearance and lifestyle...

Fiction Friends by Grace Paley. Three middle-aged, divorced women, friends, visit their friend Selena who is bedridden, dying of cancer. On Selena's table is a photo of her 18 year old daughter who was found dead by the police in another city. The women talk about their lives, their teenage children and about the...

Poetry Icarium Mare by Richard Wilbur. We have heard of the undimmed air...

Poetry Swans by Anthony Lombardy. The swans like wrecks in battle run...