Musical Events Operetta by Nicholas Kenyon.

The Talk of the Town Book by Daniel Lang. Talk story about Sidney Shiff, the new publisher of the Limited Editions Club, which puts out fine illustrated books for a limited list of subscribers. Their most recent book, which should be in the hands of members in a few weeks, is the late Rachel Carson's "The Sea Around Us...

The Theatre SCIENTISTS WHO PLAY GOD ARE GOING TOO DARNED FAR by Brendan Gill.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Comment about how, without violence, Polish workers successfully defied the totalitarian Polish state and the Soviet Union. They won the right to set up trade unions that are independent of the Communist regime. Another rebellion in recent memory - the one in Iran - was also carried out in the face of...

The Sporting Scene DISTANCE by Roger Angell. SPORTING SCENE about Bob Gibson, a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, who retired in 1975 at the age of 39 after 17 years of baseball. He becomes eligible for the Hall of Fame at the end of the current season, and writer went to Omaha to get to know...

The Talk of the Town by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about an exhibit called "The Phrenology of the Land: How to Read the New York Landscape" now at the New-York Historical Society. The show was put together by Mary Black, curator at the Historical Society. Writer describes some of the items on display: including a series of...

Fiction Lullaby by Dennis McFarland. Story in which the writer's girl friend, Ellen, sleeps a good deal. For complete summary See title card...

Fiction Tamina's Death by Milan Kundera. Writer intertwines tale of Tamina's disappearance and death with description of the slow deterioration and death of his father and what he sees as the political and cultural subjugation of his Czechoslavakia. The current Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, under the guidance of Gustave Husak is dedicated to the obliteration of...

Around City Hall Contention by Andy Logan. Gov. Carey's remark that he had always regarded the U.S. Senate seat that is on the ballot in N.Y. this year as the "Jewish seat" did not endear him to the contenders for the Republican and Democratic senatorial nominations in the Sept. 9th primary. In an interview Carey said the...

The Talk of the Town Pleasure and Palaces by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about the Billboard Magazine Sixth International Talent Forum. The reactions of the people there, who were in the rock and roll business, were morose. Simple excitement left this business some time ago, but the excitement of contrivance remained, so the simple excitement was not much missed. Now, however...

Books The Last of the Barthes by John Updike.

Poetry A Letter Home by Anthony Lombardy. They do not make it all that easy here...

Poetry Tequila by Elizabeth Spires. I live in a stone house high in the mountains...