TELEVISION
Wednesday, July 2
SPECTRUM (NET, 8-8:30 p.m.)-- "Learning to Love" focuses on "intensive group experience," a technique evolved by psychologists at La Jolla's Western Behavioral Sciences Institute to help improve human relations.
Thursday, July 3
NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). Peter Luke's comedy A Man on Her Back is about the love affair of an earnest young musician and a girl who is soft in both the heart and head.
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "It Can Be Done" reports on the city of Atlanta's success in promoting interracial good will.
Saturday, July 5
WIMBLEDON OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS (NBC, 12:30-2 p.m.). The men's singles finals live from England. The women's singles and men's doubles from 5-6 p.m.
BUICK OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT (CBS, 5-6 p.m.).
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster have a communication problem in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948).
Sunday, July 6
A.A.U. TRACK AND FIELD MEETS (CBS, 3-4 p.m.). National A.A.U. Women's championships from Dayton.
SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.). Steve Allen takes viewers on a tour of June festivities in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, dropping in on the American Wind Symphony's riverside concert, an international folk festival, and a performance by Duquesne University's tamburitzan dancer-musicians.
Monday, July 7
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Operation Breadbasket" is an examination of Chicago's black self-help project organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, written, narrated and directed by Robert (/ Spy) Gulp.
THEATER
On Broadway THE FRONT PAGE. It is always a surprise when a play can be revived after 40 years without looking and sounding like a doddering idiot. If this production has a rather cornball, period flavor, that only adds relish to a high-spirited and highly amusing evening.
HADRIAN VII is a dramatization of Frederick William Rolfe's novel Hadrian the Seventh, a minor masterpiece of wish fulfillment about a rejected candidate for the priesthood who is elected Pope. Alec McCowen's performance as the fictional Pope is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting.
Off Broadway
OH! CALCUTTA! is, for a good part of the evening, diverting and civilized, though it scarcely provides the "elegant erotica" that Kenneth Tynan promised. If it gets a minus on eroticism, the show does get two solid plusses for the laughter it evokes and its celebration of the body beautiful.
NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY is a black panther of a play, stalking the stage as if it were an urban jungle. Playwright Charles Gordone is too honest to lie about a bright brotherly tomorrow, but he tells the racial truth about today.
ADAPTATION--NEXT are two richly humorous one-acters. Satirist Elaine May directs both her own Adaptation and Terrence McNally's Next.
TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a moving tribute to the late playwright Lorraine Hansberry, made up of readings and dramatizations from her writings.
DAMES AT SEA is a delightful parody of the movie musicals of the 1930s, complete with naive Ruby, who comes to Broadway to tap her way to stardom.
MUSIC
This summer the U.S. will resound with music as diverse as the land itself. Pop, rock, folk, jazz and avant-garde compete with Bach, Beethoven and Brahms in festivals ranging from three-day stands to all-summer affairs. A sampling:
DARTMOUTH CONGREGATION OF THE ARTS, Hanover, N.H. (June 29-Aug. 23), offers its usual imaginative programs of contemporary music by composers-in-resi-dence. Luigi Dallapiccola will be on campus (June 30-July 13), Roger Sessions (July 21-Aug. 3), Roberto Gerhard (Aug. 11-23). Other visiting composers are Walter Piston and Gladys Nordenstrom.
MARLBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL, Marlboro, Vt. (July 5-Aug. 17). Rudolf Serkin's haven for chamber-music lovers presents weekend concerts with noted artists such as Pablo Casals and Alexander Schneider.
TANGLEWOOD, Lenox, Mass. (July 4-Aug. 24). Conductor Erich Leinsdorf and guests such as Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim and Josef Krips lead the Boston Symphony with Cellist Jacqueline Du Pre, Soprano Beverly Sills and other soloists in programs of traditional and 20th century works.
NEWPORT JAZZ, FOLK AND ROMANTIC FESTIVALS, Newport, R.I. From July 3 to 6, the famed resort will swing with Jazzmen Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, and Sun Ra; rock with Blood, Sweat & Tears; jam with Art Blakey and the Mothers of Invention; cool it with Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan; tear the house down with James Brown, Buddy Rich and more. From July 16 to 20 folk fans can hear Buffy Sainte-Marie, Johnny Cash, et al. From July 31 to Aug. 9 the works of such Romantic composers as Liszt, Saint-Saens, Schumann and Brahms will be performed by Pianists Raymond Lewenthal and Eugene List, and a string quartet.
SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The New York City Ballet will dance from July 3 to 27 and the Philadelphia Orchestra will hold forth from July 31 to Aug. 24 under Eugene Ormandy and guest conductors. The festival is also sprinkled with popular fare: the rock musical Your Own Thing, Folkists Peter, Paul and Mary, Pop Singers Petula Clark and Janis Joplin.
NEW YORK CITY FESTIVALS. Manhattan's Central Park is once again the site of the Schaefer Music Festival, running through Aug. 23. This year the beer company has on tap Hugh Masekela, Chuck Berry, Tom Paxton, Lou Rawls and Nina Simone. The
New York Philharmonic will again play a series of park concerts in all five boroughs from July 29 to Aug. 22, with Conductors Josef Krips and Karel Ancerl, Pianists Byron Janis and John Browning.
WOODSTOCK MUSIC AND ART FAIR, Wallkill, N.Y. (Aug. 15-17), is a new venture that plans nonstop performances from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. by musical hot-rodders such as Canned Heat, Creedence Clear-water Revival, The Band, Richie Havens, Jefferson Airplane and The Who.
GARDEN STATE ARTS CENTER, Telegraph Hill Park, Holmdel, N.J. (through Aug. 25). Now in its second year, the center will present the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Washington National Symphony; the American Ballet Theater is appearing and so are such pop artists as Henry Mancini and Liberace.
ROBIN HOOD DELL, Philadelphia (through July 24). Among this year's guest conductors for the Dell orchestra are Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Daniel Barenboim and Karel Ancerl; soloists include Violinist Pinchas Zuckerman and Pianist Alicia de Larrocha.
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL, Daytona Beach (July 24-Aug. 17), in its fourth season, is again host to the London Symphony Orchestra. Principal Conductor Andre Previn and four guests will lead the orchestra in all-Beethoven and all-Sibelius programs, among others.
BLOSSOM MUSIC CENTER, twelve miles north of Akron, Ohio (through Aug. 31), is the summer residence of the Cleveland Orchestra. It offers Mozart, Schumann and Beethoven--and also a wide selection of such 20th century composers as Stravinsky, Bartok and Hovhaness. George Szell presides; Pierre Boulez is principal guest conductor.
STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ont., which was originally dedicated exclusively to Shakespeare, is becoming one of the most imaginative summer music centers in the Western hemisphere. Musical programs (July and August) include "Bach/ Rock," a concert version of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, Beethoven, Schubert and Haydn. There will also be performances by Cellist Leonard Rose and Pianist Eugene Istomin, chamber music by the Guarneri and Beaux-Arts string quartets, Indian music-cum-lecture by Ravi Shankar, and concert performances of songs by Beatles Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Avant-garde programs will present Pianists Peter Serkin and Japan's Yuji Takahashi.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER FESTIVAL, Edwardsville, Ill., is the new summer home of the St. Louis Symphony. The five-week festivities (through July 27) opened with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and continue with traditional programs, featuring Pianists Van Cliburn and Alicia de Larrocha, Cellist Leonard Rose and Violinist Itzhak Perlman, among others. Folk and rock artists will also appear.
SANTA FE OPERA, Santa Fe, N.M. (July 5-Aug. 23), will present the U.S. premieres of Gian Carlo Menotti's Help! Help! The Globolinks and Krzysztof Penderecki's first opera, The Devils of Loudun. Other operas on its schedule are Cosi fan Tutte, The Magic Flute, Tosca, Salome and Stravinsky's Le Rossignol.
ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL, Aspen Colo, (through Aug. 24), celebrates its ZUtn anniversary this year by offering three rarely heard operas: Donizetti sRita de Fal-la's La Vida Breve and Milhaud's Flesta.
Recitals will present Duo-Pianists Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin, and Japanese Violinist Toshiya Eto. Classes are held by the distinguished music faculty.
STANFORD SUMMER FESTIVAL, Palo Alto, Calif, (through Aug. 17), is a two-month-long summer program that includes New York City Center's Joffrey Ballet, the Baird Marionettes, the New York Pro Musica, chamber music and jazz.
MUSIC AT THE VINEYARDS, near Saratoga, Calif. (Aug. 2-3, Sept. 6-7), presents chamber music concerts on the landscaped grounds of the Paul Masson winery.
CABRILLO MUSIC FESTIVAL, AptOS, Calif. (Aug. 15-17 and 22-24), offers a feast for the eye as well as the ear. Eight events are scheduled at the cliffside Monterey Bay site, among them the world premiere of a work by Mexico's Carlos Chavez and performances by the Pro Arte Quartet and Pianist Gary Graff man.
HOLLYWOOD BOWL, Los Angeles (July 8-Sept. 6), has entertained Angelenos in its mammoth open-air stadium for 48 seasons. Home ground for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Bowl presents traditional music by big-name performers, who this year include Soprano Joan Sutherland, Conductors Sixten Ehrling and Seiji Ozawa, and London's Royal Ballet.
CINEMA
RING OF BRIGHT WATER and MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. Ring tells the story of a London accountant and his pet otter; Mountain is about a Canadian youth who leaves his home for the mountains. Both films are worth leaving home for an evening's entertainment.
WINNING. The husband-and-wife team of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman have to struggle with a one-cylinder plot. But the tale of marital infidelity--set against the background of auto racing --sputters to life in occasional scenes.
MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Under the direction of John Schlesinger, Jon Voight, as a Texas drifter, and Dustin Hoffman, as a Bronx loner, make a genuinely moving picture out of one of the least likely and most melancholy love stories in the history of American film.
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Nicol Williamson gives a powerful performance as a wealthy blind Englishman who is obsessed with a lustful usherette (Anna Karina). The script and Tony Richardson's direction are as blackly comic as the Nabokov novel from which the film was adapted.
POPI. A Puerto Rican widower (Alan Arkin) struggles to get his two sons out of El Barrio, the New York ghetto. The film is comic, bright and, now and then, powerfully angry.
THE FIXER. John Frankenheimer's newest film is the harrowing and moving chronicle of a Jewish handyman battling prejudice and degradation in Czarist Russia. Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm perform with passion and compassion.
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. Richard Benjamin and AH MacGraw act with skill and candor in this film adaptation of the Philip Roth novella. The sexual frankness, the Jewish skepticism and the Roth dialogue are there, but the film too frequently mistakes burlesque for social comment.
THE FOOL KILLER and THE BOYS OF PAUL STREET. Youth is the focal point of both films. In The Fool Killer a 12-year-old orphan runs away from his guardians--an adventure that brings him to the beginning of maturity. The Boys of Paul Street uses the classroom as a microcosm to provide a glimpse into the irretrievable era when student protest was whispered in a corridor.
BOOKS
Best Reading
CRAZY OVER HORSES, by Sam Toperoff. "Horses, horses, horses, crazy over horses," the old song goes. Less repetitive but equally obsessed, the author has transformed a lifelong weakness for the ponies into an oddly winning novel-memoir.
WHAT I'M GOING TO DO, I THINK, by L. Woiwode. A young couple expecting a baby embarks on a seemingly idyllic honeymoon in the Michigan woods and discovers terrors in paradise. A remarkable first novel.
THE ECONOMY OF CITIES, by Jane Jacobs. Operating as curmudgeon and gadfly, but with a love of cities that overshadows mere statistics, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities explores the financial aspects of growth and decay in urban centers.
THE RUINED MAP, by Kobo Abe. In this psychological whodunit by one of Japan's best novelists (The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), a detective turns a search for a missing husband into a metaphysical quest for his own identity.
ADA, by Vladimir Nabokov. A long, lyric fairy tale about time, memory, and the 83-year-long love affair of a half-sister and a half-brother by the finest living writer of English fiction.
THE LONDON NOVELS OF COLIN MaelNNES (CITY OF SPADES, ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS, MR. LOVE AND JUSTICE). Icy observations and poetic perceptions of the back alleys and subcultures in that pungent city on the Thames.
PICTURES OF FIDELMAN, by Bernard Malamud. Yet another schlemiel, but this one is canonized by Malamud's compassionate talent.
THE GUNFIGHTER, by Joseph G. Rosa. A balanced, wide-screen view of the often unbalanced men who infested the Wild West.
BULLET PARK, by John Cheever. In his usual setting of uncomfortably comfortable suburbia, Cheever stages the struggle of two men--one mild and monogamous, the other tormented and libertine--over the fate of a boy.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Love Machine, Susann (1 last week)
2. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (2)
3. Ada, Nabokov (4)
4. The Godfather, Puzo (3)
5. Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut (5)
6. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (6)
7. Except for Me and Thee, West (8)
8. The Pretenders, Davis
9. Bullet Park, Cheever (7) 10. Airport, Hailey (9)
NONFICTION
1. The Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (3)
2. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (1)
3. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (4)
4. Jennie, Martin (2) 5. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese 6. The 900 Days, Salisbury (6)
7. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (7)
8. A Long Row of Candles, Sulzberger 9. The Arms of Krupp, Manchester (10) 10. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig (5)
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