Wednesday, July 5
THE LOYAL OPPOSITION (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*Frank McGee analyzes the Republican Party one year before the 1968 nominating convention.
Thursday, July 6
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Southern Accents in Northern Ghettos" compares Negro family life on Chicago's West Side with that in the rural South.
Friday, July 7
CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). The film version of James Gould Cozzens' bestselling novel, By Love Possessed (1961), starring Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Jason Robards Jr.
Saturday, July 8
THE LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL GAMES (CBS, 4-6 p.m.). The U.S. track and field team meets the British Commonwealth team at the Los Angeles Colisseum. Continued Sunday from 4-6 p.m.
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Prince Philip wields a mallet in the Queen's Cup polo match from London; plus the Firecracker "400" automobile race from Daytona Beach, Fla.
COACHES ALL AMERICA GAME (ABC, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). Top collegiate football players of 1966 clash when East meets West at Atlanta Stadium.
Sunday, July 9
THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Mars and Beyond" takes a look at what is likely to be discovered by man in outer space. Repeat.
Monday, July 10
CORONET BLUE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Not playing Mark Twain for once, Hal Holbrook stars as a newspaper editor who helps amnesiac Michael Alden search for his past.
NBC NEWS SPECIAL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Khrushchev in Exile--His Opinions and Revelations Today," produced by a special NBC team, features the first full-length interview since the downfall of the Russian leader in 1964. The recent study includes Khrushchev's recollections of his career and his remarks about world figures he has known.
NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The Victorians: Society. British Character Actress Lally Bowers is featured in a Victorian version of the eternal triangle.
NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "A Few Castles in Spain" focuses on the current Duchess of Alba, her husband, her children and her castles. Along the way, she also mounts a defense of her notorious ancestor, the "Naked Maya" of Goya.
THEATER On Broadway YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson writes of men in pursuit of love who are, in turn, pursued by it. Sometimes sharply incisive in social comment, sometimes poignant in perception, most often baldly amusing, these four playlets demonstrate that in matters of sex, the line between the sublime and ridiculous is thin indeed.
BLACK COMEDY, by Peter Shaffer, looks at the light side of a dark evening in the flat of a London sculptor (Jordan Christopher) when neighbors, customers, fiancee and mistress collide during a power blackout.
THE HOMECOMING, winner of this season's Drama Critics' Circle and Tony awards, is the latest of British Playwright Harold Pinter's laconic, spare dramas. Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company give a nightly lesson in precision and grace in ensemble acting.
Off Broadway
AMERICA HURRAH. Jean-Claude van Itallie peels the surface from some of the fruits of life in contemporary U.S.A. and finds there's something rotting at its core.
RECORDS
The San Francisco Sound
What storms out of Western dance palaces these days is mostly thunder and lightning: hard rock, heavy with electronics and accompanied by flashing lights. But there are some 300 groups playing in the San Francisco area, and the only thing they actually have in common is their address. Their recordings, although frenzied in spots, are varied and even sometimes gentle and folklike:
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE TAKES OFF was the first album of San Francisco's best-known group, but their current bestseller is their second, Surrealistic Pillow (RCA Victor). The lyrics are often explicitly about drugs, but the Airplane's popularity comes not from what they say but how they say it: their artful musical ellipses, the easy blend of voices and instruments, and above all the singing of Newcomer Grace Slick. Grace controls the sound with dramatic urgency in While Rabbit, her own song about the wonder drugs of Alice's Wonderland ("Feed your head! Feed your head!") and her fervent evangelism for a more universal proposition: "Don't you want somebody to love?"
THE GRATEFUL DEAD (Warner Bros.) make no bones about what they are up to: "We play loud music for dancing, stealing it from a lot of places--old blues, new blues, jug band, classical licks and jazz." Their album swings to a breathless but controlled climax in the ten-minute Viola Lee Blues.
THE DOORS (Elektra) are actually from Los Angeles, but they have successfully played the San Francisco dance halls. They are a versatile quartet, equally at home in Kurt Weill's Alabama Song and the rhythm-and-bluesy Back Door Man. The electric organ kindles as much excitement as the incendiary lyrics in Light My Fire, their biggest single hit to date.
COUNTRY JOE & THE FiSH call their album Electric Music for the Mind & Body (Vanguard). They have an agreeable melodic approach with many songs in the folk genre, especially Porpoise Mouth, which was written by Country Joe McDonald but sounds like an old English ballad.
MOBY GRAPE has just been pressed by Columbia on five singles and an LP. The year-old quintet creates a rather bland mash--no screaming lyrics, no electronic blasts. They are O.K. for grandma--well, some grandmas. "A good mussing makes you feel so fine/A good mussing with Elderberry wine," they suggest jovially in Hey Grandma.
CINEMA
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. Sean Connery is back as James Bond, this time blowing up a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. haunt in the crater of a Japanese volcano. But the Bonds are beginning to devalue.
THE DIRTY DOZEN. A tough film about a misfit World War II major (Lee Marvin) who trains a squad of case-hardened criminals and psychopaths for a suicidal mission behind enemy lines.
TO SIR, WITH LOVE. Sidney Poitier in the role of an engineer turned teacher in a London slum school. The interim job becomes a dedication to turning hippies and chippies into grownups.
THE DRIFTER. Director Alex Matter and Photographer Steve Winsten make the ordinary something to celebrate in this fragile film about a young vagabond.
A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. Walter Matthau, as a suburban husband looking for greener grasses and keener lasses, proves that the person who plays the common man must be an uncommon actor.
BOOKS
Best Reading
SELECTED LETTERS OF DYLAN THOMAS, edited by Constantine FitzGibbon. This careful sampling of the letters of the tragic poet-genius contains some of his best prose and proves that in his heart he was far less irresponsible than his outrageous behavior indicated.
A PRELUDE: LANDSCAPES, CHARACTERS AND CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EARLIER YEARS OF MY LIFE, by Edmund Wilson. A distinguished and versatile critic joins shards of youthful experience into a memoir that says farewell to the innocence--his own and his country's--that was shattered by World War I. The same experience helps make his rather stilted early stories, GALAHAD and I THOUGHT OF DAISY, penetrating documentaries of an era.
HAROLD NICOLSON: THE WAR YEARS, 1939-1945, VOL II OF DIARIES AND LETTERS, edited by Nigel Nicolson. This second installment of Author-Politician Nicolson's sprightly and irreverent reminiscences may well clinch his position as the brightest British diarist of his age.
THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING, by Jean Cocteau. Autobiographical jottings of the French mime who poured as much of his enormous talents into playing the artist as into his strange novels and otherworldly movies.
RICHARD STRAUSS: THE LIFE OF A NONHERO, by George R. Marek. The author orchestrates vivid evocations of German cultural life around his theme: that decay and upheaval after World War I cut Strauss off from his romantic roots and kept him from fulfilling his greatness.
ALL MEN ARE LONELY NOW, by Francis Clifford. Still another double agent unravels the skein of British cold-war diplomacy with a classically simple plan that Author Clifford fashions into a classically complicated thriller.
SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. A weird and wicked contemporary version of the old fairy tale. Children would like the story without understanding it--but, then, the same is true for adults.
THE HORRORS OF LOVE, by Jean Dutourd. Exploring a tragic love affair between a middle-aged Frenchman and his mistress, Dutourd also performs a meticulous dissection of French character.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)
2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2)
3. Washington, D.C., Vidal (3)
4. The Plot, Wallace (6)
5. The Chosen, Potok (4)
6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (7)
7. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (5)
8. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (9)
9. Go to the Widow-Maker, Jones (10) 10. Capable of Honor, Drury (8)
NONFICTION 1. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (2) 2. Everything But Money, Levenson (1)
3. The Death of a President, Manchester (3)
4. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn (4)
5. Madame Sarah, Skinner (5)
6. Games People Play, Berne (6)
7. Treblinka, Steiner (8)
8. A Man Called Lucy, Accoce and Quet (10)
9. Disraeli, Blake (7)
10. Paper Lion, Plimpton (9)
*All times E.D.T.
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