February 27, 1983

It wasn't so long ago that the idea of disposable buildings seemed nearly as acceptable in America as disposable cigarette lighters. Today, however, the movement to preserve old structures and land has taken hold, and the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation believes it is time for a caucus of all the groups of preservationminded people across the Nutmeg State who have been working to save notable structures. A meeting has been scheduled for next Saturday at the Yale University School of Law in New Haven at which representatives of 25 local groups are expected to gather.

METROPOL Literary Almanac. Edited by Vasily Aksyonov, Viktor Yerofeyev, Fazil Iskander, Andrei Bitov and Yevgeny Popov. Foreword by Kevin Klose. Illustrated. 643 pp. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. $24.95. EVERYTHING about this anthology is remarkable: its inception, its fortunes, its contents. ''Metropol'' was first published in 1979 in the original Russian version by Ardis in Michigan and in a French translation by Gallimard in Paris. Its history has been told by Vasily Aksyonov, its instigator and prime mover, by Kevin Klose, a former Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post, in his foreword to the English translation, and in samizdat publications that have been reprinted in The Chronicle of Current Events, published in Russian in New York. This history is an amusing, bracing, tragic, heroic one, and ''fantastic,'' one would like to add, were it not that fantasy implies the unusual, whereas the events in this case are of a type all too commonplace in the Soviet Union.

INTEREST rates have stabilized in the past few months, but t here are faint signs that the rates may be starting to creep up a gain. The change is not dramatic, and many lenders continue to offer their lowest rate in nearly two years. But a few banks, savings and loans and mortgage companies have recently raised their rates by a half a percentage point on conventional fixed-rate loans. Dime Savings Banks of New York, for example, has raised its rate on a 30-year conventional loan from 13 to 13.5 percent.

The confidence of the Knicks in their ability to apply defensive pressure has grown so strong recently that little appears to faze them, not a 12-point deficit nor a 1-for-10 shooting performance in the first five minutes of a game. The Knicks overcame both of those handicaps last night and defeated the Chicago Bulls, 94-79, at Madison Square Garden. It was the Knicks' fourth consecutive victory and their 14th in the last 17 games, a streak that began with a victory over the Denver Nuggets on Jan. 22. The record of the Knicks is now 27-28.

Herschel Walker went to work today. The all-America tailback and Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Georgia reported to the training camp here of the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League and after a half-hour news conference Walker put on a white uniform with the No. 34 on the jersey. Then he went to the practice field with 50 new teammates and began learning how the Generals play this game. One thing that the Generals want to learn is how well Walker, a record-breaking running back in college, can catch passes. In his first practice, he spent much of his time in passing drills.