The Angry Silence. In a grimly impressive critique of the mass mind, a machinist courageously resists the pressure of the union that has "sent him to Coventry."
Tunes of Glory. Alec Guinness is uncannily lifelike as a roaring extravert of a mustang colonel who becomes both hero and villain in a Scottish garrison tragedy.
Exodus. Otto Preminger's superb direction and Dalton Trumbo's superlative script have made the rambling bestseller about Israel into a stirring, four-hour epic.
The Sundowners. When not upstaged by dingoes, wombats, endless flocks of sheep and Peter Ustinov, Stars Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr are appropriately knockabout as a shiftless couple beating the Australian bush.
The Magnificent Seven. An expert, sensitive study of the fateful tie that inevitably binds the strong to the weak, his film may well be the best western of 1960.
Among the other good recent offerings: The Virgin Spring, Village of the Damned, The Love Game, General della Rovere and Weddings and Babies.
TELEVISION
Tues., Jan. 3 Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.).* On the Xingu River in the Brazilian jungle, an exploring party meets the Txukarramae, a tribe of the world's most truculent savages.
The Garry Moore Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Count Basie and his band.
Wed., Jan. 4 Perry Como's Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Among the guests: Broadway's Elizabeth Seal (Irma La Douce). Color.
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Tonight's theme: black market babies.
Thurs., Jan. 5 CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). An examination of U.S. election procedures, titled "Our Election-Day Illusions: The Beat Majority."
Fri., Jan. 6 Playhouse (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Some thing called Amateur Mother kicks off a new situation-comedy series with Wendell Corey and Nanette Fabray.
The Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Jose Iturbi, Renata Tebaldi and Shirley Jones, with Dancers Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn. Color.
Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). A major news story of the week.
With Charles Kuralt.
Sat., Jan. 7 National Football League Playoff Bowl (CBS, starts at 2 p.m.). In the leakiest bowl of all, the second-place clubs of the eastern and western divisions -- the Cleveland Browns and the Detroit Lions -- grunt it out in Miami.
The Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Should public employees have the right to strike? Union Leader Michael J. Quill, who last summer was almost mightier than the Penn, debates with Fred A. Hartley Jr., Taft-Hartley Act coauthor.
Sun., Jan. 8 The Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.).. First of a 13-part series covering offbeat sports. Today: the finals of a national rodeo, from Dallas.
Roundup U.S.A. (ABC, 3:30-4 p.m.).
Major news of the week. Premiere of new series.
The New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). Leonard Bernstein lectures on overtures and preludes.
Celebrity Golf (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Sam Snead v. Maverick's Jim Garner.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "P.O.W.--Part 2: The Road to Resistance" shows how the Air Force trains men in procedures to follow if captured.
General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Sammy Davis Jr. in a Budd Schulberg story about an ex-boxer trying to become a ring announcer.
The Dinah Shore Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). On film, Heavyweight Ingemar Johansson shows Dinah around Copenhagen, which should be an interesting tour, since Ingo is Swedish. Color.
THEATER
Camelot. Suffering from a book paralyzed by internal contradictions, the Lerner-Loewe opus nevertheless has sprightly moments, magnificent sets, and a performance beyond the call of musi-comedy duty by Richard Burton.
All the Way Home. An adaptation of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family, that offers more small coins of pure silver and less stage money than any other U.S. play this season.
Advise and Consent. Although never once cutting below the surface, this political contrivance (based on Allen Drury's bestselling novel) gets behind the scenes often enough to produce brisk theater.
Period of Adjustment. Tennessee Williams' South has become unprecedentedly sunny in a lively, skillful but somehow disappointing comedy about marital adjustment.
An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Whether enacting Mamma and Papa, lover and mistress, or P.T.A. program chairman and Southern playwright, the versatile improvisationists are funny and sharply satirical.
A Taste of Honey. A shabby world of people who are disturbed but vital leaps to life through language that has edge and rings true.
Irma La Douce. Elizabeth Seal emerges as a delightful streetwalker--and street dancer--in a jaunty French musical that fills its Pernod bottles with the milk of human kindness.
BOOKS
Best Reading
To a Young Actress, edited by Peter Tompkins. The actress was Mrs. Molly Tompkins, an American, and the letter writer was G.B.S., who strove, without Pygmalion's success, to improve her mind and pronunciation.
The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill,
by Don Russell. The bearded old bison-bane was a showman, but he was also a notable frontiersman, and this biography does a good job of sorting the facts from the flamdoodle.
Greek Gods and Heroes, by Robert Graves. The only classicist who troubles himself to speak to the upper-middle intellectual class has disarmingly retold the Greek myths for young readers.
Winnie Ille Pu, by A. A. Milne, translated into Latin by Alexander Lenard. Liber virginibus puerisque legendis, si quis adhuc vivit satis impiger qui alienum sermonem a maioribus pantopere excultum non fastiviat.
It Had Been a Mild, Delicate Night, by Tom Kaye. The author writes of a nymph and a satyr in London, of all places; his pagan first novel is in praise of Eros, the deity he believes makes the world go around.
Trumpets from the Steep, by Diana Cooper. Lady Diana has the delightful ability to make real people seem like Waugh characters, but there is a touch of sadness to the third volume of her autobiography, in which the brightest of the Bright Young People of the '20s says goodbye to her generation.
A Zoo in My Luggage, by Gerald Durrell. The author, who must be extremely tired of being described as the brother of Novelist Lawrence Durrell, is crackers about animals, and here he writes very well of the ones he met on an eventful trip to the Cameroons.
Goodbye to a River, by John Graves. An uncommonly well-told account of the author's sentimental journey by canoe down the Brazos River of western Texas, a watercourse that was to be destroyed by a power dam project.
Summoned by Bells, by John Betjeman. Neither major poetry nor the record of an extraordinary life, this autobiography in verse is nevertheless a singing recollection of what it was to live in an older England, and to be a young poet.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1).--
2. Hawaii, Michener (2)
3. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (3)
4. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (10)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (8)
6. The Dean's Watch, Goudge (5)
7. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes (4)
8. The Nylon Pirates, Monsarrat
9. Mistress of Mellyn, Holt (7)
10. The Lovely Ambition, Chase (6)
NONFICTION
1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1)
2. The Waste Makers, Packard (2)
3. The Snake Has All the Lines, Kerr (5)
4. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (3)
5. Vanity Fair, ed. by Amory and Bradlee (6)
6. Born Free, Adamson (4)
7. Baruch: The Public Years (7)
8. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (8)
9. The Politics of Upheaval, Schlesinger (9)
10. The Worlds of Chippy Patterson, Lewis
* All times E.S.T. -- Position on last week's list.
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