The Current Cinema A Cuckoo Clock That Laughs by Pauline Kael. Review of "Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000" directed by Alain Tanner...

The Talk of the Town Conference by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about an international conference in Washington entitled "The United States in the World". The week-long affair was attended by about 300 professors and assorted other intellectuals from more than 40 countries. It was put on by the Smithsonian Institution in conjunction with the American Council of Learned...

Books Orange Juice for One by Alec Wilder.

Comment by Charles Patrick Crow. Writer says in recent days he's been thinking of the passenger pigeon, a bird that no longer exists. His thoughts were stirred by a booklet entitled "A Passing in Cincinnati", sent to him by a friend in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It describes the existence and disappearance of...

On Photography The View from Plato's Cave by Janet Malcolm.

The Talk of the Town Truffaut, Part V by Lillian Ross. Talk story about French film-maker Francois Truffaut. He came to the 14th New York Film Festival, which opened with the showing of his 19th movie "Small Change". It was the writer's 5th talk with him since 1960, when at age 28 he made his first feature-length movie, the...

A Reporter in Washington Summer Notes~I by Elizabeth Drew. Diary notes from July 10 to Aug. 6, chiefly about the Presidential campaign. Writer comments on Mrs. Jimmy Carter. Her face is pleasant but it does not convey warmth. One is told that she is at least as ambitious as her husband. They clearly are close...

The Race Track It Was Revidere's Day by G. F. T. Ryall. Trainer of Ivanjica, who won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in Paris 2 Sundays ago. He bought Ivanjica for $180,000 at Keeneland yearling sales in 1973, for Jacques Wertheimer, for whom he trains...

Profiles YOU'VE SIMPLY GOT TO GO OUT AND RAISE THE SCRATCH by Geoffrey T. Hellman. PROFILE of Robert G. Goelet, the eighth president of the American Museum of Natural History; president of the New-York Historical Society and the French Institute/Alliance Francaise; an ex-president (and continuing trustee) of the New York Zoological Society; and an ex-treasurer (and former director) of the National...

Musical Events Concert Records by Winthrop Sargeant.

Fiction Confessions of a Burglar by Woody Allen. Excerpts from the soon-to-be-published memoirs of Virgil Ives, a burglar. Virgil says he stole because he had a bad upbringing; his father was a bank robber and his mother was a blackmailer and an arsonist. The first thing Virgil stole was a loaf of bread. He was...

The Talk of the Town Spirits by Jervis Anderson. Talk story about Mort Berkowitz, a native New Yorker in his late thirties, who is a single-minded and fanatical advocate of New York City. He is a member of the Citizens Committee for New York City, organized last year to wage a grass-roots struggle for the city's survival...

Fiction The Psychic Journey by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The writer feeds the pigeons on Broadway and meets spiritualist Margaret Fugazy. She convinces him to join her as a guide to a group of women going to Israel. His wife, Dora, was in Israel, & he tried to get in touch with her but was unsuccessful as the Yom...

Poetry The Difference by John Fandel. The stream...

Poetry Death In A Plane by Carlos Drummond De Andrade. I awaken for death...