Comment by Suzannah Lessard. Writer tells about a friend now in her nineties. Her house has an independent aliveness which asserts itself amid order - for she is an independent champion of order. One room is different from the rest of the house. It is her bedroom but also a study and a sitting room...

Dancing Footsteps in the Fog by Arlene Croce.

Fiction Pepperoni by Donald Barthelme. A newspaper has found financial success by diversifying its operations. It owns timberlands, mines, pulp and paper operations, and a number of different media, and over-all return on invested capital increases at about 9% a year. But top management is saddened and discouraged, and middle management is drinking too...

A Reporter at Large 1980: THE ELECTION by Elizabeth Drew. REPORTER AT LARGE about the last weeks of the Presidential campaign and the election of Ronald Reagan. Writer uses diary form, beginning with Wed., Oct. 15 and ending with Thurs., Nov. 6th. The public's impression of Carter changed. When the idea hit that he might not be such a nice...

Profiles II-THE IMPOSSIBLE PROFESSION by Janet Malcolm. PROFILE of psychoanalyst Aaron Green (not his real name), a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, who practices classical Freudian analysis in New York. In discussion of transference, writer examines Freud's Dora paper in detail. Called "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria," written in 1905, it...

The Theatre Survivors by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town The Arts by Jane Boutwell. Multi-part talk story about some of the things going on around town last week. Two Cat Events: At the Morgan Library there was an exhibit of cat and other few line images called Nine Lives or More. At the Algonquin Hotel there was a cocktail party in honor of...

Musical Events Exotics by Nicholas Kenyon.

Fiction Change by Larry Woiwode. Narrator lives with his wife, 8-year-old daughter and infant son on first floor of house. He is at work compiling his writings of the past 13 years, work which he believes will offer an indisputable proof of the existence of God. His house has been struck twice by...

Fiction Country Traffic by Saul Steinberg. Six drawings, three of churches, the other three of banks. In the first trucks carrying geometric shapes pass before the First National Bank. The second depicts people, dogs and an airplane in front of American National. The third and fourth depict churches; in the latter the sky is filled with...

Poetry The Roar by Gerald Stern. That was the last time I would walk up those five...