The Talk of the Town by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about Bob Dylan and his recent concert at Madison Square Garden. Friends of the writer discuss Dylan's image and music. Gives highlights of the conversation. Concert attended by such notables as Dick Cavett, Shirley Maclaine, Yoko Ono, etc. Dylan is elusive and keeps his audience guessing as to...

The Current Cinema NICHOLSON'S HIGH by Pauline Kael.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Letter from Israel by Joseph Kraft. Israel waged an inconclusive war, held an undecisive election, & after negotiations through Henry Kissinger, began a unilateral withdrawal underwritten by paper guarantees. The mood of the nation is grim, after the 4th Arab-Israeli war, which began when Egypt & Syria attacked on Israeli solemn religious day, Yom Kippur...

The Talk of the Town by Louis P. Forster. Small admonitory sign observed in a small family-owned restaurant on the upper East Side: PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE CHILDREN...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. In the days before the State of the Union Address last week, there was a good deal of curiosity around the country about what the Pres. might say. Ordinarily, the occasion is one in which the Union becomes briefly visible and audible in the form of the officers of all...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Books by L. E. Sissman.

The Talk of the Town Rankians Unbowed by Jervis Anderson. Talk story about a meeting of Rankians, followers of the Austrian psychologist, Dr. Otto Rank(1884-1939). About 400 members of the 450 of the Otto Rank Association attended the gathering at their headquarters in Doylestown, in Bucks Co., Pa. Dr. Rank was trained under Freud and broke away in the...

Musical Events by Shaw Shawe-Taylor.

U. S. Journal U.S. JOURNAL: SUFFOLK COUNTY, LONG ISLAND TRYING "GREEN DOOR" by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL describing court proceedings in the Suffolk County, N.Y. trial of Arthur Strollo, a theatre operator accused of showing an obscene film, "Behind the Green Door," at the Pine Cinema in Coram, N.Y. Joseph Rhine, the defense lawyer, & Ira Simon, the prosecutor, chose a jury of 6: Rhine...

Fiction Crimes You'll Never Read About by F. P. Tullius. Satirical piece about crimes which are so nice that they are more aptly described as good deeds. Enumerates some doers of good deeds: The Shopleaver, who brings into the store and shelves products as opposed to stealing them; The Overkiter, who adds an extra one hundred dollars when writing out...

The Sporting Scene SUPER by Roger Angell. THE SPORTING SCENE about last month's Super Bowl at Houston, the 8th interleague professional football championship game. It was officially desitnated Super Bowl VIII. The game was between the Miami Dolphins & the Minnesota Vikings. The Dolphins won 27-7 playing in a businesslike but dreary contest whose outcome was entirely...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL IN THE SPOTLIGHT by Andy Logan. Reporters were told informally soon after the election that Seymour Terry would be Deputy Mayor for Governmental Relations. Terry, the proprietor of a small insurance business in Long Island City, had as his only apparent qualification for the job the fact that he and Buddy Beame, the Mayor's son, had...

Fiction A Journey by Edna O'Brien. She is a British graphic designer, poised, lovely and sophisticated, who has a short-lived affair with a shy, moody, inarticulate Irish workingman named Boyce. Both being unaccustomed to each other, their relationship is fraught with apprehension and fear. He is already living with a woman, Madge, and their child...

Poetry Peripeteia by Anthony Hecht. Of course, the familiar rustling of programs...