The Air (On Television) Politics Inside the Rectangle by Michael J. Arlen.

The Talk of the Town Cooper-Hewitt Transformed by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about the opening show of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, in the Carnegie House on 5th Ave. between 90 and 91 Streets. The show is entitled "Man Transforms: Aspects of Design...

Comment by Jamaica Kincaid. Comment about remarks made by a visitor from Antigua. They have no Col. Sanders there...

The Race Track Man o' War Surprises by G. F. T. Ryall. Trainer Maurice Zilber brought over Nelson Bunker Hunt's Empery, the winner of England's Derby Stakes last June, for the Man o'War Stakes, but the colt had a rough time the three days he spent at the United States quarantine station at Clifton, New Jersey - Zilber says he lost fifty pounds...

The Current Cinema No Id by Pauline Kael. Review of Eric Rohmer's "The Marquise of O....", from the Heinrich von Kleist novella published in 1808. Kleist wrote in German, and the film is acted in German, by German stage actors...

Fiction Secrets And Surprises by Ann Beattie. My husband has gone, and now it is only my house. My friends Corinne and Lenny make the 2-hour drive up to Woodbridge from New York City nearly every weekend. Last year when my husband went on vacation without me, I visited my parents and my brother Raleigh, who...

The Talk of the Town Playwright by John Bainbridge. Talk story about British playwright Ben Travers who will turn 90 in November. He has lately had 3 hits running concurrently in the West End. Two of them"Plunder" and "Banana Ridge"-are revivals of farces that Mr. Travers wrote in 1928 and 1938. The third is a new comedy...

A Reporter in Washington Summer Notes~II by Elizabeth Drew. Diary notes from Aug. 11 to 19 about the Republican National Convention. Ronald Reagan wanted the Presidential nomination. Tells what was done by John Sears, his campaign manager. His principal tactic was a public proposal that the Convention adopt a rule requiring all Presidential candidates to announce their Vice-Presidential...

Musical Events Atlantic Overtures by Andrew Porter.

Fiction The Book Of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges. I live alone in a 4th-floor apartment on Belgrano Street, in Buenos Aires. Late one evening, a few months back, a stranger came to my apartment, selling Bibles and a book he bought from a man on the outskirts of Bikaner. On the spine of the book were the...

The Theatre FAMILY TROUBLES by Brendan Gill.

Profiles by Penelope Gilliatt. PROFILE of film maker Jean-Luc Godard. Writer talks to Godard at his home and studio in Grenoble. Describes both places. Godard talks about making films and about many of the films he has made: "Vivre Sa Vie," "Contempt," and so on. Writer notes the director's philosophical observations. Quotes Godard's...

Poetry The Spies by Ann Stanford. Sun or rain, I am out here, shoes overflowing...

Poetry Naming The Light by Stephen R. Jamison. Dusting the lamp bulb...

Poetry For Julia, In The Deep Water by John N. Morris. The instructor we hire...

Poetry Remembering San Zeno by Charles Wright. After the end, they'll bring you...