A Wartime Childhood I-630 BUNNYMEDE DRIVE by Anthony Bailey. A WARTIME CHILDHOOD about an English child (the writer) who between the ages of seven and & eleven (at the time of World War II) lived in the U.S. He stayed with the Spaeth family for those four years, at 630 Runnymede Drive in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio...

The Talk of the Town Car Questions by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about a party thrown by the Ford Motor Company at the Palace Hotel for Anne and Charlotte Ford, authors of the new book, "How to Love the Car in Your Life." The book, which includes illustrations only of Ford cars, was written with the assistance of two professional...

The Current Cinema SENSORY DEPRIVATION by Pauline Kael.

The Talk of the Town Berrigan by James Stevenson. Talk story about a New Year's Day visit to Daniel Berrigan the Jesuit. He helped pick up a cold, gloomy day for the writer. Berrigan showed him photographs of and talk about his family, which originally came to this country from Ireland. Both of his parents lived to be 90...

Comment by James Stevenson. A friend who lives in a one-room apartment off Columbus Ave. writes that one of the appealing features of his apartment is a fireplace, although his landlord instructed him never to make a fire in it, lest he ignite the upper West Side. Be has obeyed. One cold day...

The Talk of the Town Visitors by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about a visit of three literati from the People's Republic of China - Ai Qing, Wang Meng and Feng Yidai. Ai Qing, aged 70, is one of China's preeminent poets and the vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association. Wang Meng, 46, is a renowned writer and the vice...

The Theatre Outdoors, Indoors by Edith Oliver.

Fiction The Philosophy Circle by Jeremy Bernstein. The narrator, a professor of Philosophy, will be the host of this week's meeting of the Philosophy Circle this evening. The subject of discussion is to be "Does the Philosophy of Wittgenstein Have a Content?" Old Professor Lash is the first to show up. He is followed by Alice Dodd...

Books A Study of Delight by V. S. Pritchett.

U. S. Journal NUCLEAR THOUGHTS NEXT TO A LARGE ANCHOR by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: NEKOMA, N.D., about the town that was the home to the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, an anti-ballistic missile base that was in full operation, apparently, for only one day in October, 1975. Nekoma is a remote farm town that lies in flat grain-growing country some...

Fiction Greyhound People by Alice Adams. A young woman, recently divorced, lives in San Francisco with an older woman named Hortense. Tells about her ex-husband, who left her for a Japanese nurse. He wanted their apartment, so she moved out. She commutes to Sacramento to work on a Greyhound bus, and Hortense meets her at...

Poetry The Winter after Your Death by Sharon Olds. The long bands of mellow light...

Poetry Looking Ahead by John Hollander. When afternoons appear brighter, making us forget...

Poetry What Voice at Moth-Hour by Robert Penn Warren. What voice at moth-hour did I hear calling...