Comment by Jonathan Schell. There's a tide in the world running in the direction of democracy. In Portugal, Spain, Greece, and Argentina it has already happened. In the Philippines, the champions of democracy have been winning victories, and the opposition to dictator Ferdinand Marcos may well end up with more than a third of...

The Talk of the Town Symbol by Emily Hahn. Talk story about a lecture by Dr. George Schaller on the giant panda, an endangered species. It was held under the auspices of ARC, the Animal Research and Conservation Center, a branch of the N.Y. Zoological Society. Dr. Schaller has just been named the first William Beebe Fellow of the...

The Talk of the Town Dig by William McKibben. Talk story about Edward Rutsch and the archeological dig he is directing on a vacant lot at 60 Wall Street. Rutsch is looking for the wall Wall street was named for. Tells about some of his excavations. Business has improved in the last few years, as a result of federal...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Profiles MAKING ADJUSTMENT by Calvin Trillin. PROFILE of several of Houston's immigration lawyers...

The Talk of the Town Liftoff by Lincoln Caplan. Talk story about Sam Schoenbaum, Distinguished Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Maryland, and author of "Shakespeare's Lives," "William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life," and two dozen related books and monographs. On Shakespeare's reputed birthday, Schoenbaum showed writer around Washington's Folger Shakespeare Library, which holds the largest Shakespearean collection...

A Political Journal by Elizabeth Drew. It had been thought that Walter Mondale would have the Democratic Presidential nomination for President all but in hand after May 8th, with victories in the primaries in Ohio, Indiana, Maryland, and North Carolina. But the voters in Ohio and Indiana rose up and smote that consensus. Gary Hart's victories...

The Current Cinema THE CANDIDATE by Pauline Kael.

The Sporting Scene THE MASTERS by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about the Masters golf tournament played at the Augusta National Golf Club and won this year, impressively, by Ben Crenshaw. The Masters came into being in 1934. Bobby Jones, retired golf champion, invited his old friends and some of the sportOs rising young stars to a tournament...

Books by George Steiner.

Fiction Oslo by Moira Crone. Writer and her husband Mark, a computer writer, live in Tampa, Florida, though Mark wants to move to San Francisco or Jerusalem. They are close friends with Nadine and Jordan Richards. Both couples were hanging out with a Norwegian lady artist who had just left abruptly for Oslo. Nadine found...

Fiction Constellations by Douglas Florian. Eleven drawings consisting of white lines on black backgrounds. They have titles like: The Blow-Dryer; Jackie O.; Designer Jeans; etc...

Obituary by William Shawn. Obituary of Raymond Charles Guth, Jr. (Chip) who died at nineteen some days ago (Friday, May 4). He was a third-generation member of the staff of The New Yorker, the grandson of the late Gus Lobrano, who was our fiction editor from 1938 to 1956, and the son of...

Fiction The Hinge by Penelope Gilliatt. Wanda and Boleslaw, residents of England, flew into Warsaw. They tried separately to remember where they had known each other before. Boleslaw was a correspondent of the London Times, though he had changed the word "writer" to "waiter" on his passport. She was of Polish-Jewish origin. The plane in...

Poetry Memorial Day by Ellen Bryant Voigt. In Field Guides they are always in repose...