Dancing by Arlene Croce.

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. At a vendue held last week at Keeneland, Wallace Gilroy paid $625,000 for a colt-the highest price ever paid...

Books by George Steiner.

The Air Elegy For Teddy Holmes, Dead in a Far Land by Philip Levine. Here the air takes the host...

Onward and Upward with the Arts ON THE FUTURE OF MOVIES by Pauline Kael. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about the commercialization of films. Discusses in detail the warring relationship between artists(directors and performers) and entrepreneurs(producers and movie executives.) The artists care less about profits than what they want to do with a film, while the producers are concerned with making...

Fiction The Park by Arturo Vivante. Story about a park, which was laid out about 1840 at the end of a long cypress drive from the Tuscan villa. The estate was inherited by a religious couple, who died childless in 1950 & left the park to their young niece, who came there seldom. Since the death...

Fiction Splendid Lives by Penelope Gilliatt. Story about the Bishop of Hurlingham, 92, a widower who was a cousin 3 times removed of Queen Victoria. His mind was occupied with books, pigeons, leftist politics & concern for his Derby winner. One evening his dinner guests included his younger sister Biddy, 86, Dr. Spencer, who was trying...

The Talk of the Town Americans 32, Stars 29 by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the N.Y. Stars, a new team which is New York's entry in the new World Football League. Their home opening game was played July 17th at Downing Stadium on Randall's Island. Tells about the stadium, & describes the game, which was played against the Birmingham Americans. The...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Harold Rosenberg.

The Talk of the Town Second Lives by Victor Chen. Talk story about New York firehouses & their re-use value. Old, decommissioned firehouses are ideal homes for the splintery, exotic factions that abound in N.Y. Tells about several firehouses that are being used by different organizations. In architectural circles, the city's old firehouses have a reputation for strong construction...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Last week, in the days leading up to the House Judiciary Committee's votes on impeachment, there seemed to be a change in the American air. It was not that "the tide was moving against the President." He seemed almost a peripheral figure in the proceedings. The White House charges-that...

U. S. Journal THOUGHTS OF A FAIR-TROTTER by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: SPOKANE, WASH., about Expo '74, which has environment as its theme. The fair has introduced to the public the institutionalized mea culpa. Tells about several of the exhibits, all of which have something or another to do with the environment. The Sierra Club does not have a pavilion...

The Talk of the Town Psychic Sail by Ian Frazier. Talk story about New York's first Psychic Sail, held on board a Marine & Aviation ferryboat one night recently. Dr. Thomas Maughan, the Chosen Chief of the Ancient Druid Order, made his first public appearance in the U.S. as a featured guest on the cruise, but he was lost in...

The Talk of the Town Righteousness by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about the Shaker movement, which is the subject of a film, "The Shakers," produced by Tom Davenport, a tall, blond, blue-eyed Virginian. Tells about Shaker history. Davenport became interested in Shakers through his ties to Zen Buddhism, which he formed through 4 years of living in Taiwan...

Poetry Holding Our Own by Ann Stanford. A summer without passion...