Cover artist: Roxie Munro Publication Date: November 14, 1983 Page Count: 210 pages In this issue:Fiction New Dawn by Robert Penn Warren. 1 EXPLOSION: SEQUENCE AND SIMULTANEITY Greenwich Time 11:16 P.M. August 5 1945... Hiroshima Time 6:16 P.M. " "... 2 GOODBYE TO TINIAN Now that all the"unauthorized items"are cleared from the bomber/... Colonel Tibbets, commander/... Addresses the crew, "just don't/Screw it up..." 3 TAKEOFF: TINIAN ISLAND ...Position taken... 4 MYSTIC... Musical Events Fatal Error of Misguided Love by Andrew Porter. The Talk of the Town Growth by William McKibben. Talk story about the official dedication ceremony of Aqua Farms, an experimental farm at the Queens Charles Poletti Power Project which uses the waste heat from the plant to heat a hydroponic greenhouse. Writer spoke to Stephen Singer. The plants are submerged in a stream of nutrient-rich water, instead... Books by John Updike. Comment by Jonathan Schell. The Talk of the Town The Way by William McKibben. Talk story about Barbara Woodhouse, a dog trainer. She is a 73-year-old resident of Rickmansworth, England. Her discipline, outlined in the best-selling "No Bad Dogs" and in the current hit book "Walkies" and on wildly popular television programs, is the "Woodhouse Way," a technique for exacting obedience... Fiction Love by William Maxwell. Miss Vera Brown was the only pretty teacher at Central School, where she taught 5th grade. A boy in her class had a crush on her, thinking that her voice was as"gentle as the expression in her beautiful dark eyes." Her students loved her and left apples and other... Dancing The Waves by Arlene Croce. Books Baggy Monsters by John Updike. Onward and Upward with Wall Street GORY THEATRE, SOAP-OPERA ANGUISH by John Brooks. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH WALL STREET about "Wall Street Week" a weekly program appearing on national public television. Its appraisal of the world of investments is conducted by Louis Rukeyser, a former newspaperman & network newscaster. It emanates from Owings Mills, where the headquarters and studios of the Maryland... Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL PEREGRINATIONS by Andy Logan. The popular message of song, story, and Convention Bureau press release here is that New York is the town that all enterprising outlanders beat a path to if they want to be among life's winners. Still the city and state have lost population according to the Census Bureau. Quite a... The Talk of the Town Peter Brook by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about Peter Brook's version of Bizet's "Carmen," done as a musical drama called "La Tragedie de Carmen" at the Vivian Beaumont. Choruses and crowd scenes have been dropped, the cast has been trimmed to four singing and two speaking parts, and the libretto has been reworked to give... Reflections ORDER, CHAOS, AND THE NATIONAL INTEREST by William Pfaff. REFLECTIONS about American foreign policy. Writer observes that the Iranians, Lebanese and Syrians are on a different "plane of history," and that we should not react to them as if their motives were purely political. American response to world affairs is to see everything in terms of good and evil... Fiction Edisto by Padgett Powell. Simons Everson Manigault is a 12-year-old boy who lives in Edisto, not far from Charleston, S. Carolina. Simon's parents are separated. His mother is nicknamed the Doctor&the Duchess&his father is called the Progenitor. A black man comes to serve a subpoena& scares away... The Talk of the Town Move by William McKibben. Talk story about the move of the Three Lives and Company Bookshop at 7th Ave. So. and 10 St. to its new location. Because of landlord difficulties, Jill Dunbar, Helene Webb and Jenny Feder, the owners, had to move around the corner. They got help from a battalion of neighbors... The Current Cinema HAIR by Pauline Kael. Poetry Bringing Up Father by John N. Morris. For too long he has followed too much... |