The Talk of the Town Love Among the Ruins by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about an interview with E.M. Frimbo, done on board the Brooklyn III, a tug boat belonging to the New York Dock Railway fleet. Frimbo and the writer ride up the Newtown Creek, the narrow estuary that divides Brooklyn and Queens, and while they ride, Frimbo discusses the beauty...

Our Far-Flung Correspondents INDIAN POLITICS: A FAMILY AFFAIR by Ved Mehta. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about Indian politics and Indira Gandhi's return to power. Traces Mrs. Gandhi's career since her appointment as Prime Minister in 1966 She lost power in the elections of 1977 when Jaya Prakash Narayan formed the Janata (People's) Party to put an end to the dictatorship of...

Musical Events Mixed Blessings by Nicholas Kenyon.

A Reporter at Large THE WORLD'S RESOURCES I-THE LEAN YEARS by Richard J. Barnet. REPORTER AT LARGE about the world energy crisis. Writer addresses three questions about energy: Is industrial civilization running out? Who, or what, is responsible? What can be done about it? Various forms of energy are then discussed: oil, coal natural gas, nuclear power. He then discusses non-depletable energy resources...

Comment by William Edgett Smith. In 1979, after 7 years of civil war and heavy international pressure, the whites in what is now called the Republic of Zimbabwe were forced to bring some moderate black politicians into the government. Late last year, there was a London conference that produced a cease fire in the civil...

The Talk of the Town Grosbeaks by Robert Bingham. Talk story about a bird watcher in Dobbs Ferry who tells about observing grosbeaks. He first saw them 5 or 6 years ago on an unseasonably warm November day, For the last couple of years they have hung on into December. In Dec., 1978 he received a call not long...

The Talk of the Town Sara by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about six-year-old Sara Stimson from Helotes, Texas, who will be performing the lead role in a modern remake of the old Shirley Temple movie, "Little Miss Marker." In an interview, her mother Dana describes how she learned that the part was available, took Sara to try...

Books History of Our Time by Naomi Bliven.

Fiction Gold Watch by John McGahern. Every summer, the writer, who lives in Dublin, goes home to his father's farm to help get in the hay. He continues this practice even after his marriage to a woman his father has insulted. One summer, his father, who is a bitter, ungiving man, grudgingly parts with a gold...

The Current Cinema BUTCH HOLLER AND HOLLYWEIRD by Roger Angell.

The Theatre News from the Upper East Side by Brendan Gill. Review of "Save Grand Central", by cartoonist William Hamilton...

Fiction From Sunrise To Daybreak by Mavis Gallant. A Year in the Life of an Emigre Review) Writer parodies a newsletter issued every month by an emigre literary magazine put out by Russians in France The first letter announces the move of Sunrise (the publication's name changes from that to Aurora and finally to Daybreak during the course...

Poetry Cameron's Song: Cloudless Sulphur by Wendy Salinger. The man I work for hums a partial song...

Poetry Tenants of the House by Jiri Wyatt. These are six rooms on the third floor...

Poetry Tepoztlan by Amy Clampitt. The Aztecs, conquering, brought Huitzilopochtli...