Comment by Jonathan Schell. As President Reagan considers deepening the U.S. involvement in Latin America, he might do well to examine a letter from Queen Victoria to her Prime Minister Lord Salisbury in 1898. She said that the new Viceroy of India should try to remind the natives that the British are masters, but...

Musical Events Pastoral-Tragical by Andrew Porter.

Letter from Europe by Jane Kramer. Barbie was a Nazi S.S. commander of Lyons from Nov. 1942 to Nov. 1944, who, in the course of two years, murdered or ordered the murder of 4,342 Maquisards and deported 7,591 French Jews to concentration camps in Germany. LETTER discusses his recent extradition from Bolivia and the French ambivalence...

The Talk of the Town Sunday in Manchester by Lillian Ross. Talk story about a seminar on five New England poets that took place on the first Sunday in May in the Manchester, New Hampshire City Library. The poet of the day was Robert Frost. Jo-Anne Randall worked for seven years as a curator at the Frost farm. She tells...

Fiction Mourning Doves by Judy Troy. Bleu, her stepbrother, Lewis, and her mother, Lorraine, were shopping at the Paradise Valley K-Mart. Lorraine met Wayne Lissel and fell in love. Wayne Lissell was a cowboy/hardware man from Tulsa. Lewis, who was 19 and five feet tall, drove his mother and sister home. Bleu worked as...

Comment by William McKibben. A child born in the U.S. will consume from 30 to 50 times as many goods of all descriptions in his or her lifetime as one born in the highlands of Bolivia. This statistic was in a 1980 book by Penny Lernoux called "Cry of the People". Writer was reading...

Letter from New Delhi by Ved Mehta. In March, 1982, in New Delhi, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ejected her daughter-in-law, Maneka, widow of Sanjay, from her house. Her reason was that Maneka had attended a political convention held by a few of Sanjay's disgruntled followers and Mrs. Gandhi considered the convention subversive to her rule...

Fiction The Interview by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The writer remembers meeting a female rebel for the first time. He was nineteen and a proofreader for a Yiddish literary magazine. The editor sent him to interview a visitor to Warsaw--Dr. Gabriel Levantes. The interview was his first effort at journalism. When he went to the Hotel Bristol...

Books Empire's End by John Updike.

The Theatre SURVIVORS by Brendan Gill.

The Current Cinema GENTS AND HICKS by Pauline Kael.

The Talk of the Town Balanchine by Arlene Croce. Talk story about the events following the death of George Balanchine. Balanchine co-founded the NYC Ballet with Lincoln Kirstein. Kirstein spoke about Mr. B. at the State Theatre on the Saturday that he died, saying, "Mr. B. is with Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky...

Poetry Nerves by Howard Moss. Who doesn't have them--bad as the war news...

Poetry Shadow by David St. John. I am the shadow you once blessed...