Cover artist: Charles Saxon Publication Date: June 15, 1981 Page Count: 152 pages In this issue:A Reporter at Large THE PATIENT IV - THE AIR IS TOO STILL by Susan Sheehan. REPORTER AT LARGE about Sylvia Frumkin (pseud.), a 33-year old patient at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens. Writer chronicles her medical history from 1972 to date, a period in which she was admitted to Creedmoor alone 7 times. In July, 1972, the day before she was to graduate from... The Talk of the Town Solidarity in New York by Jonathan Schell. Talk story about the visit to New York by the first official delegation of Solidarity -- the National Polish Labor Union. Mieczyslaw Gil was one of four people in the delegation; he is the president of the Solidarity branch of the Lenin Steel Works, in Krakow, and regional president of Krakow... Dancing Grand Pas Petipa by Arlene Croce. Books Unastonished Eye by Susan Lardner. Fiction Boss by George W. S. Trow. Boss has a secretary, Marian. She loves Boss, and goes to his house one night. Boss's children, Haley and Tim, won't let her in; then they tell her Boss doesn't live there anymore. Pressures at work cause Boss stress. (Many executives have disappeared although their names on doors remain.) Boss... Comment by Whitney Balliett. When the pianist Mary Lou Williams died, at the end of May, she was an artist-in-residence at Duke University. Teaching her beloved music to the young was a fitting way for her to end her life (she was 71), but then she had always had the knack of... Musical Events Strike the Viol, Touch the Lute by Nicholas Kenyon. The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver. Fiction Echoes by Elizabeth Cullinan. Connie, a middle-aged single woman, is invited to dinner at Daisy and Frank Lorch's house in Nassau County. Daisy has set Connie up with a dance teacher, David Amato. Connie, despite many bad love affairs, looks forward to the evening. The Naylors (Laurie and Barry) and the Grants (Nina... Poetry The Corpse of the Insensitive by Daniel Halpern. The mountainside or pasture hills... Poetry Bar Ledge by Joseph Moses. You lend your summer... |