Musical Events Hill Tunes by Andrew Porter.

The Race Track Back to Aqueduct by G. F. T. Ryall. Red Fenton will be making riding engagements for Braulio Baeza...

The Talk of the Town Out of the Bogs by Brendan Gill. Talk story about a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art called "Treasures of Early Irish Art". Among the 70 or so objects on display are some gold dress ornaments and jewelry dating back to around 2000 B.C. The three most celebrated objects in the show all date from the...

Annals of Crime A PRISON AND A PRISONER II-SAME AS ON THE STREET by Susan Sheehan. ANNALS OF CRIME about one of New York State's maximum-security prisons. Green Haven, in Dutchess County. New York State spends $9,768 a year to keep a man at Gree Haven. Writer reprints a diary which a prisoner, Georg Malinow. kept to show how he spent four ordinary days at...

The Air (On Television) "The News" by Michael J. Arlen.

Fiction Unguided Tour by Susan Sontag. I took a trip to see the beautiful things. Change of scenery. Change of heart. To say goodbye. The more that places, customs, the circumstances of adventures are changed, the more we see that we amidst them are unchanging. I know all the reactions I shall have. Know all the...

On Television Winter- Up Close And Personal by Daniel Menaker. A Pre-Season Television Interview On The "Round World Of Weather" Show) HAROLD PORTENT: What will be here soon is Winter- he of the frigid temperatures and leaden skies and foreshortened daylight hours. He is a genial and thoughtful time of the year, and he has some fascinating stories to...

The Talk of the Town Worldly Goods by Susan Lardner. Talk story about visiting Janet to help her clean her apartment. She took a box of miscellaneous papers, pulling out letters, postcards, business cards, calling cards, palm cards, posters, flyers, handouts, bills, lists, notes, clippings and manuscripts Tells about some of the papers she pulled out: a massage parlor handout...

The Talk of the Town First Landing by Ian Frazier. Talk story about the first landing in New York of the controversial supersonic French-British jetliner, the Concorde. Tells about the crowd that gathered in the Pan American terminal to witness the landing. Many of the four or five hundred people who had come to Kennedy Airport didn't know when...

The Current Cinema Hail, Folly! by Pauline Kael. Lengthy full-column review of Bertolucci's "1900", shown at the N.Y. Film Festival. It will open in a theatre on Nov. 4th...

The Theatre Out of Dublin by Brendan Gill.

Our Local Correspondents LET IT BE CLASSY by Whitney Balliett. OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about talk with Alberta Hunter, 82. Miss Hunter is resuming her career as a singer that she forsook for practical nursing in the mid-fifties. She is appearing at the Cookery and is accompanied by Jimmy Rowles. Writer visits her at the Cookery during a rehearsal with...

Comment by Veronica Geng. These past few weeks, we have turned our attention to the newspapers in a manner not habitual with us - asking the hard question "How are we - all of us - doing? We have not, it seems, done well. We have failed to live up to our advance billing. We have failed...

The Talk of the Town Dave's by James Stevenson. Talk story about a 4 AM breakfast visit to Dave's Corner, a luncheonette on the corner of Canal Street and Broadway. The neighborhood was apparently deserted It turned out that everyone who was ambulatory was inside Dave's Corner. Three horseshoe-shaped lunch counters were lined with customers, and there was...

Around City Hall "Code Word" is a Code Word by Andy Logan. New York political figures have been treating Jimmy Carter's Administration as something resembling an enemy power, whose policies it is to their advantage to oppose and try to confound at every opportunity. There were times during this year's mayoral primary when the candidates seemed to be running against the Pres...

Poetry October by May Swenson. A smudge for the horizon...

Poetry Elegy: For Robert Lowell by Joseph Brodsky. In the autumnal blue...

Poetry The Little Ones by Gary Soto. When fog...