Books by V. S. Pritchett.

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Profiles THE GREAT MOMENT by Kennedy Fraser. PROFILE of Issey Miyake, a Japanese fashion designer, and report on Japanese fashion. Writer went to a fashion show featuring the clothes of Miyake on the U.S.S. Intrepid, and a buffet dinner at the Mr. Chow restaurant afterwards. Writer went to Japan in November of 1982 for the "Best Five...

The Theatre CIVILIZATION ON THE ROCKS by Brendan Gill.

Letter from West Germany by Jane Kramer. Last spring, Willi Schafer, of the town of Schlitz in Oberhessen, drove to the foot of a little mountain called the Eisenberg to check the conditons of the paths. He arranges walks for tourists. He came upon a number of American soldiers examining the terrain, and some Army vehicles. Willi...

The Talk of the Town The World of Birds by Emily Hahn. Talk story about Dr. William Conway's appointment, by Prince Bernhard in absentia, to the position of Commandeur in the Order of the Golden Ark. It was bestowed in recognition of special service rendered to the conservation of flora and fauna. The ceremony took place in the World of Birds at...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Calvin Tomkins.

The Talk of the Town A Belfast Visit by Anthony Bailey. Talk story about a friend who went to Northern Ireland to take in a few events at the annual, fortnight-long Belfast Festival at Queen's, organized by the Queen's University in that city, in cooperation with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. This was the 21st such occasion. Lists the...

Fiction Solace by Linda Grace Hoyer. Ada dropped a match into the heap of Christmas paper at the edge of the wood and watched it burn the red tissue in which one of the gifts from her son, Christopher, had been wrapped. Ada's husband Marty was dead and Christopher wasn't coming home for the holidays. Mr...

Fiction The Bagpiping People by Douglas Dunn. Two or three mornings a week, in summer, a tinker called Robertson bagpiped the Gilchrist family from sleep half an hour before the time set on its alarm clocks. "I thought you liked bagpipes," said Jim Gilchrist, teasing his father's short temper at the breakfast table. Sam and Selma Gilchrist...

Comment by William McKibben. Lengthy Comment on the investigation by Linda Drucker, of the Reuters news service, and five other reporters, of a rumored massacre of peasants in El Salvador. The journalists were reported missing and presumed drowned when a boat they chartered capsized on Lake Suchitlan. Tim Ross, with two assistants from ABC...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Poetry Icicles by Robert Pinsky. A brilliant beard of ice...

Poetry The Restaurant Window by Howard Moss. A time-lapse camera might do it justice...