Books Undone by Penelope Gilliatt.

Fiction The Sandy Frazier Dream Team by Ian Frazier. Satirical piece. Writer discusses football players of various teams and their achievements during the season. They are all named Sandy Frazier and they all are "tremendously quick for a big man," or have "great ability for a big man," and so on. The writer discusses the offense first, naming position...

Fiction A Family Man by V. S. Pritchett. Berenice has given up waiting for her lover, William Cork, and has started to work on her jewelry, when the doorbell rings. Florence Cork is at the door. She asks for William's flute and accuses Berenice of having an affair with her husband. Berenice denies this, saying she sees William...

The Talk of the Town F.F. by Philip Hamburger. Talk story about exhibit about Felix Frankfurter at the Harvard Law School. Frankfurter, born in Vienna in 1882, received his law degree from Harvard, was professor of law there from 1914 to 1939, and sat as Associate Justice of th Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 until ill...

Profiles PUTTING SOMETHING OVER SOMETHING ELSE by Calvin Tomkins. PROFILE of Romare Bearden, a heavyset man of sixty-three, who is generally referred to as American's leading black painter. His work is in the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and other museums. He lives with his wife, Nanette, in an apartment on Canal Street. He grew...

Comment by Peter Behr. At midday on October 19th, in Johannesburg, South Africa, plainclothesmen entered the offices of the "World," a daily paper that has the largest circulation among blacks of any paper in the country, and "detained," or arrested, its editor Percy Qoboza, for unspecified violations of the Internal Security Act. The "World...

The Air The Prosecutor by Michael J. Arlen. Entire column consisting of an analysis of two programs on corruption in Wyoming, by Dan Rather, for the show "60 Minutes". Writer tries to demonstrate that Rather made accusations which he hardly ever proved. The first of the reports was largely devoted to the prostitutes of Rock Springs, Wyoming. On...

The Current Cinema The Greening of the Solar System by Pauline Kael. Review of the science fiction film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". The writer-director is Steven Spielberg. The title is from a book by the astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek...

Reflections Thinking~II by Hannah Arendt. REFLECTIONS about thinking. Thinking, willing, and judgment are the three basic mental activities; they cannot be derived from each other and they cannot be reduced to a common denominator. To the question "What makes us think?" there is ultimately no answer other than what Kant called "reason's need". Writer examines...

Musical Events Transformations by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Partygoing by Brendan Gill. Talk story telling about parties attended during a one-week period. The first was cocktails in honor of Lord & Lady Caccia, given by Mrs. John Barry Ryan. Then to the apt. of Kay Meehan, who was giving a dinner in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Robt. Macgowan, of San...

The Theatre THE ODD COUPLE by Brendan Gill.

Poetry Coniagui Women by Audre Lorde. The Coniagui women wear their flesh like war...

Poetry Signs by Carl Dennis. When you go, I hope for a clear sign...

Poetry The Life Ahead by Philip Levine. I awakened, still a child...

Poetry His Tuning Of The Night by Erica Jong. All night he lies awake tuning the sky...

Poetry The Thames at Chelsea by Joseph Brodsky. I November. The sun, having risen on an empty stomach, The heart...