March 30, 1980

This is the second of a two-part series on office-building development in the metropolitan region.

E. Sheffield Nelson is 39 years old. Finn M.W. Caspersen is 38, Michael J. Collins, 35, Andrew Tisch, 30, and Richard D. Schultz, just 29. Each is a chief executive, running a company at an age when most business people are still groping about in the anonymous ranks of middle management.

DUBLIN Sean O'Casey was born a hundred years ago, on March 30, 1880, in Dublin, a city which at the time had the worst slums and the highest infant mortality rate in Europe: he was the youngest of 13 children, and at the time of his birth eight had already died.

WASHINGTON Joan Miro, who will observe his 87th birthday on April 20 and whose work is currently the subject of exhibitions in Washington and St. Louis, has enjoyed one of the longest and most distin guished careers in the annals of 20th-century art. There can be little question but that he ...

FOR more than a decade Doris Lessing has been energetically breaking the bonds of the realistic novel, which she once regarded as the highest form of prose writing. Repeatedly--in "The Four-Gated City," "Briefing for a Descent Into Hell," "The Memoirs of a Survivor"--she has ventured into eschatological prophecy, into explorations of madness and ESP, into Blakean fantasies of man's fallen state.