Comment by Josselyn Simpson. Comment about women voting. Tells about a speech given by Linda Wilson, the president of Radcliffe. Since Wilson announced her goals of increased participation of women in society, she has come to seem more prescient than old fashioned. The idea that things were going OK for women--woat women's position...

The Talk of the Town Famous by Mindy Aloff. A talk story about ESTO '92, an Estonian convention held in New York recently, the Sixth Estonian World Festival. Reet Marten-Sehr is an Estonian-Canadian who met writer in the Lindy's at the Ramada across from Madison Square Garden. She introduced writer to two brothers, Margus and Eero Tae...

The Talk of the Town Normandie by Nancy Franklin. Tells about an exhibit of S.S. Normandie artifacts put together by John Maxtone-Graham. In the late thirties, his aunt Joyce Maxtone-Graham, using the pen name Jan Struther, wrote a series of vignettes for the London "Times" which became a best-selling book and a popular movie, describing the...

The Talk of the Town Blobs by Richard Preston. A talk story about the discovery of microwave traces of the Big Bang. This April, a scientific team led by a physicist named George Smoot made a great discovery about cosmic light. Smoot's team, which had been working with a NASA satellite known as the Cosmic Background Explorer or COBE...

Fiction Change in Louise by Tom Drury. After the failure of her marriage to Charles Darling, Louise decides to marry the local sherrif, Dan Norman. Once they announce their engagement, strange things begin to occur: the pastor, Farina Dorsey, makes a pass at her; at Kinney Shoes, she is persuaded somehow to buy wedding shoes that don't...

Profiles THE HEART, THE HEAD, AND THE PIPES by Whitney Balliett. PROFILE of singer Rosemary Clooney, that traces the peaks and valleys of her personal life and career, from 1945 when she began at an Ohio radio station, up to her more recent successes such as monthlong, soldout engagements at the Rainbow & Stars, with a period of pill addiction inbetween...

Report from Dachau by Timothy W. Ryback. Tells about an attempt to open an encounter center for youth to discuss the Holocaust in the town of Dachau, and about ex-imates of the Dachau prison camp, including Nikolaus Lehner, who lives in the town. Describes the foot-dragging by the local town council in the face of...

Musical Events by Paul Griffiths.

Letter from Washington by Elizabeth Drew. Tells about his role as the current Vice-Presidential nominee for the Democrats... Gore in his Vice-Presidential acceptance speech, went on too much about the trauma of his son's terrible injuries when a car hit him three years ago. Gore's friends say the experience changed him. The choosing of...

Books by Helen Vendler.

Poetry Transatlantic by Joseph Brodsky. The last twenty years were good for practically everybody save the dead...

Poetry Lives of the Painters' Artists' Antidotes by Richard Howard. It was a compilation I should have...

Poetry Sick, Away from Home by Jean Valentine. My head...