CINEMA

Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are two vastly superior westerns about untamed, free-spirited men whom civilization has made obsolescent. Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott (Country) and Kirk Douglas (Brave) give strong, graceful performances with the unforced dignity of the old breed of western hero.

The Concrete Jungle. This strange, taut, jagged British crime movie crackles with the excitement of a cool jazz score and U.S.-born Director Joseph Losey's subtle vision of crime and the criminal.

Boccaccio '70 is scarcely the updated Decameron it tongue-in-cheekily professes to be, but sex goddesses Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Romy Schneider give highly erotitillating performances.

The Notorious Landlady. Jack Lemmon makes antic hay in this playful mystery-comedy with a London setting, and in one bathtub sequence, Kim Novak proves to be an accomplished nude.

Lolita has lost her nymphet rating since she left the perverse and remarkable novel by Vladimir Nabokov, and the resulting film romance between a knowing, nubile teen-ager (Sue Lyon) and a middle-aged emigre (James Mason) is commonplace and flaccid. Peter Sellers provides much-needed comic relief.

Stowaway in the Sky is no respecter of age. It will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its balloonist-eye view of the fair land of France.

Merrill's Marauders, in its quiet under-keyed way, keens a dirge of arms and the brave men who bore them in the suffocating jungle warfare behind the Japanese lines in Burma.

The Miracle Worker is Teacher Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), who took the hand of little Helen Keller (Patty Duke), and with fierce patience, put within the child's grasping fingers the meaning of an unseen, unheard, unspoken world.

A Taste of Honey is pressed from the bitterly squalid urban honeycombs of the English poor. Not a drop of meaning has been spilled in transferring the play by Britain's angry young woman, Shelagh Delaney, 23, from stage to screen.

TELEVISION

Wed., July 18

Focus on America (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.).-The history of art as exemplified by the Detroit Museum's collection.

David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Topics: Credit buying and European television commercials. Repeat. Color.

Fri., July 20 The World of Jimmy Doolittle (NBC,

9:30-10:30 p.m.). Story of the professional life and contributions to aeronautics of the World War II hero of the B-25 raid on Tokyo. Repeat.

Eyewitness (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Top news story of the week.

Sat., July 21

P.G.A. Golf Tournament (CBS. 5-6 p.m.). First of two days' broadcasting from Newtown Square, Pa., where the country's top pros compete for the championship of their own trade union.

Track Meet: U.S. v. Russia (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). First of two broadcasts on consecutive days, from Stanford University, Stanford. Calif.

Sun., July 22

Issues and Answers (ABC. 4-4:30 p.m.). Fallout and testing discussed by Dr. Glenn Seaborg, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.

The Twentieth Century (CBS. 6-6:30 p.m.). The story of World War II merchant seamen on The Suicide Run to Murmansk. Repeat.

Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A pocket biography of Broadway Producer Flo Ziegfeld. Repeat. Color.

Mon., July 23

Beyond the Threshold (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Analysis and comprehensive view of the U.S. space program. Repeat.

THEATER

Straw Hat

Kehnebunkport, Me., Playhouse: Henry Morgan in Reclining Figure.

Cambridge, Mass., Loeb Drama Center: Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men.

Framingham, Mass., Carousel Theater: Van Johnson as The Music Man.

Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: Richard II and Henry IV, Part I, plus Shakespeare Revisited (readings rendered by Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans).

Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., Playhouse: The World of Shalom Aleichem with Morris Carnovsky.

Albany, N.Y., Arena Theater: Fairy Tales of New York, a new play by J. P. (The Ginger Man) Donleavy.

Andover, N.J., Grist Mill Playhouse: Eva Gabor in Janus.

Clinton, N.J., Hunterdon Hills Playhouse: The Vinegar Tree with Faye Emerson.

Princeton, N.J., Players Theater: Pirandello's Tonight We Improvise.

Ardentown, Del., Robin Hood Theater: James Agee's All the Way Home.

Gaithersburg, Md., Shady Grove Music Fair: Mary Healy asking Peter Lind Hayes Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?

Traverse City, Mich., Cherry County Playhouse: Margaret O'Brien in Under the Yum-Yum Tree.

Warren, Ohio, Packard Music Hal!: Art Linkletter and Constance Moore in Father of the Bride.

Fish Creek, Wis., Peninsula Playhouse: The Armoured Dove, a new play by Nord Riley, about a sort of Major Barbara of the missile age.

Danville, Ky., Pioneer Playhouse: No. 4 in a series of ten new plays: A Terror Since September by Chicago Engineer R. C. Lesser, whose blueprints will be used as decor in this psychological drama.

Sacramento, Calif., Music Circus: Sigmund Romberg's 1926 solution to French North African troubles. The Desert Song.

San Diego, Calif., the Old Globe Theater: A first-rate Shakespeare company presenting Othello, The Taming of the Shrew and Henry IV, Part 2.

Stratford, Ont., Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, The Taming of the

Shrew and The Tempest, plus The Gondoliers.

Dawson City, Yukon, Palace Grand Theater: This reconstructed Klondike opera house. 4,500 miles off Broadway, has reopened after 60 years with a new musical. Foxy, based on Volpone, starring Bert Lahr, Larry Blyden and Bill Hayes.

BOOKS

Best Reading

The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing. A superior attempt at running elusive self-knowledge to earth; the self, in this case, that of a British woman writer who is the novel's tormented heroine; the knowledge, fascinating entries in four notebooks she keeps on four facets of her public and private life.

Letting Go, by Philip Roth. Page by page, because of the author's unmatched eye and ear, this novel of the university young is a delight. Taken as a whole, it is a tiresome analysis of the Angst of a conventionally world-weary hero.

Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. The surviving member of a pair of old literary feudists is led, by his antagonist's death, to some uncomfortable conclusions about his own life. One of the best novels of an older English writer whose work is too little appreciated.

The Reivers, by William Faulkner. Like an old man yarning on the back stoop, a Nobel prizewinner indulges himself and the reader in a fond and very funny story.

Saint Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis. In a superb retelling, the great saint's life reveals physical anguish endured with spiritual strength.

An Unofficial Rose, by Iris Murdoch. A spritely, philosophically provocative excursion into upper-class English affairs of the heart.

The Wax Boom, by George Mandel. In the darkness of modern combat, a symbolic company of infantrymen meet death by candlelight.

Patriotic "Gore, by Edmund Wilson. A look at Civil War writing becomes that rarity--a fresh and unsentimental centennial tribute.

Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. A monument to mortal folly, ashore and afloat.

Best Sellers FICTION 1. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (2, last week)

2. Sbip of Fools, Porter (1)

3. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (3)

4. The Prize, Wallace (10)

5. Uhuru, Ruark (5)

6. The Big Laugh, O'Hara (8)

7. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (4)

8. The Reivers, Faulkner (9)

9. Devil Water, Seton (6)

10. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (7)

NONFICTION 1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1)

2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2)

3. Calories Don't Count, Taller (3)

4. Conversations with Stalin, Djilas (9)

5. The Guns of August, Tuchman (4)

6. In the Clearing, Frost (5)

7. Six Crises, Nixon (7)

8. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!. Hudson (10)

9. Scott Fitzgerald, Turnbull

10. The Making of the President 1960, White (6)

*All times K.D.T.

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