My Time Is Your Time -- Issues of Beginnings and Endings -- Beginnings of Organic Evolution -- The Beginning of the Beginning in Western Thought -- Death, Literature, and Its Consolations -- On the Beginnings and Endings of Time in Medieval Judaism and Islam -- A Structuralist View of Biological Origins -- The Origins of Time -- The Relationship Between Our New Sense of Time and Our Sense of An Ending in Tragedy -- The Beginning and End of Time in Physical Cosmology -- Beginnings and Endings: Hesse and Kawabata -- Perspectivity and the Principle of Continuity -- Closure and the Shape of Fictions: The Example of "Women in Love" -- Issues of Music and Time -- Hindu-Buddhist Time in Javanese Gamelan Music -- The Zones of Time in Music and Human Activity -- On Musical Continuity -- The Creation of Audible Time -- Miscellaneous Contributions -- The Branch System Hypothesis: A Critique -- Time Proverbs and Social Change in Belgrade, Yugoslavia -- A Report on the Literature of Time 1900-1980 -- 1. A Selected Bibliography of Books -- 2. Periodical Literature-a Statistical Survey -- 3. A Guide to the Time-related Subject Headings of the Library of Congress -- Membership List.