1968-01-13 The New Yorker Magazine Contents 1968/01/13 — Cover by Charles E. Martin (CEM) Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Children Are There, Trying Not to Laugh” by Maeve Brennan “The Letter Writer” by Isaac Bashevis Singer “No More Elegies” a poem by Jane Cooper “Plane” a poem by W.S. Merwin The Theatre: Many Voices by Brendan Gill Off Broadway: New Troupe in Town by Edith Oliver Musical Events: Profusion and Confusion Reign by Winthrop Sargeant Letter from Cambodia by Robert Shaplen The Current Cinema: Movies as Opera by Pauline Kael Letter from Paris by Genet