The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Harold Rosenberg.

The Talk of the Town Good Show by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about party at the Market Diner, 11th Ave. and 43rd St., attended by E.M. Frimbo. Frimbo discuses the way the meaning of "diner" has changed since the days of the diners attached to trains, which the Market Diner resembles only remotely. ("Motel" has seen similar changes.) Joe Kipness...

The Sporting Scene VOICES OF SPRING by Roger Angell. THE SPORTING SCENE about spring baseball training camps and the deals players made during the fall free agent market. Discusses whether any team can "buy a pennant" as people say the Yankees have done. Writer goes to many games in Florida and Arizona where he watches and interviews players and...

Fiction The Snow by W. S. Merwin. Writer arrives at night by boat in a cove among cliffs where he sailed with fishermen for a few summers as a boy. An old man and a boy greet him and, with the aid of a lantern, walk with him to the top of the cliff. When he was...

The Talk of the Town Dinosaurs by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about going to the American Museum of Natural History on a Sunday. Tells about attending a lecture given by Sidney Horenstein, a paleontologist on the museum's staff. It was sponsored by the New York Paleontological Society. The talk was on dinosaurs. Tells some of the things that were...

A Reporter at Large II-GETTING THROUGH TO THE OTHERS by Emily Hahn. A REPORTER AT LARGE about animal communication. Discusses many different forms of animal signalling behavior, both in nature and in studies conducted by psychobiologists and other scientists. Bird expert David McKelvey talks about interspecific communication with birds, that is, when birds have become confused in their communication and relations with...

The Art World Space by Calvin Tomkins. Talk story about the big thing in the art world today - alternative space - nonprofit exhibition areas. Mentions several of them and tells about Alanna Heiss & the Institute for Art and Urban Resources, which she conceived in 1971. Its purpose was to find studio space for artists, to put on...

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of Tony Richardson's film "Joseph Andrews", from Henry Fielding's novel...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Books by Susan Lardner.

Fiction Obstruction by George W. S. Trow. Writer enters the office of Morgan Aspair, daughter of the legendary producer Hemming Aspair and herself a film entrepreneur. He is continuing an interview with her. She plays tapes of herself speaking while driving around in a car with the interviewer, pretending he's not there. The tapes are mostly about...

Comment by Veronica Geng. A young woman writes: New Yorkers spend as much time as 19th century pioneers waiting for some things they've sent for to arrive. Right now, I am waiting for my subscription tickets to the New York City Ballet, which opens on May 2nd. I sent away for tickets in February...

Poetry Wish Granted by Rachel Hadas. You said, I will go to another land, I will go to...

Poetry Ode to Landscape by John Hollander. O beautiful for specious skies," you...