CINEMA

The Young Savages. The plot is straight from Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the documentary scenes of punks and finks roaming through Manhattan's tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn juvenile jungle carry the authority of the headlines.

Violent Summer (in Italian). An old wave film of a short, sensuous, foredoomed affair played out in Fascist Italy.

The Secret Ways. Richard Widmark on the run from Communist baddies produces a film full of gunplay, torture, capture and escape, escape and capture.

On the Double. Danny Kaye wastes himself on a witless script built around a potentially funny idea, but some of Danny's routines--perhaps 20 minutes' worth--nearly make the film worthwhile.

Ashes and Diamonds (in Polish). Set in Poland just after the German surrender in World War II, this film powerfully states its theme that a farewell to arms is the most difficult of all partings.

Kanal (in Polish). Men and women trapped in Warsaw's sewers during the abortive uprising against the Nazis are put through a Dantesque catalogue of psychological and physical tortures.

Mein Kampf. Newsreels, German propaganda films and secret police footage have yielded a definitive compilation of the Third Reich's horrors.

Two Women (in Italian). Mother (Sophia Loren) and daughter (Eleonora Brown), ably aided by Jean-Paul Belmondo, prove that in World War II Italy, only those who suffer can love.

La Dolce Vita (in Italian). A sprawling, formless masterpiece of modern Rome's spiritual depravity and sexual excess.

L'Avventura (in Italian). Another endless but masterly dissection of the malignant tedium that grips contemporary Italy's empty-souled profligates.

TELEVISION

Thurs., June 8

Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* Girls in Danger, an anthology of anguished heroines clutching cliffs and leaping ice floes while villains pursue.

Fri., June 9

The Flintstones (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Cartooned capers for neolithomanes.

Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Walter Cronkite comments on one of the week's major news stories.

Sat., June 10

Major League Baseball (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). The Twins and the Orioles are visible, but only in non-major league areas.

Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-7 p.m.). International Golf Championship (Canada Cup) Matches at Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico.

The Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). "Does the U.S. Need a More Restrictive Trade Policy?"

Fight of the Week (ABC, 10 p.m. to conclusion). Archie Moore defends his light-heavyweight championship against Giulio Rinaldi of Italy.

Sun., June 11

Major League Baseball (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). White Sox v. Orioles in non-major league areas.

Eichmann on Trial (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). Bill Shadel is anchorman, and Yale Newman and Martin Levin do the reporting.

Issues and Answers (ABC, 4:30-5 p.m.). Answer man will be Secretary of the Army Elvis Stahr Jr.

Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Part of the show will be the film Nature's Half Acre, an Oscar-winning study of birds, plants and insects in their seasonal changes.

Winston Churchill--The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The old warrior's farewell, in the last chapter of a generally excellent series.

Tues., June 13

Close-Up! (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). A documentary on the troublous political awakening of northeastern Brazil.

THEATER

This is how things stand near the end of a dismal season:

DRAMA. The Pulitzer-Prizewinning idyl, All the Way Home; A Far Country, which might also be titled Young Dr. Freud; and A Taste of Honey, a gentle treatment of some bitter episodes, are the only survivors. All are worthwhile, plus, of course, last season's Miracle Worker, superb even without the original cast, for anyone who has not yet seen it.

COMEDY. Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary is a hilarious must, with Ionesco's Rhinoceros a provocative near-must. Come Blow Your Horn recommended for fanciers of Jewish family humor. An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May recommended for everyone, at least once, but preferably twice.

MUSICALS. On balance, Camelot has a far more engaging score than was at first conceded; with a splendid cast and sets, the troubled book is almost overcome. The most charming musical around remains Irma La Douce, the freshest Carnival!, and Bye Bye Birdie and Fiorello! are both unpretentiously funny. Do Re Mi has Phil Silvers, but despite the inspired help of Nancy Walker, book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. As for Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, it is a national monument made of sugar, and should appeal to anyone who likes monuments, sugar or Mary Martin.

Off Broadway

Jean Genet's The Blacks, a mocking, kaleidoscopic allegory of race hatred, is probably the most interesting item around. Genet's other long-running offering is The Balcony, an amusing charade in which the world is seen as a vast brothel. Rising Dramatist Edward Albee, who has not yet written a full-length play, has built a reputation on Ionesco-like one-acters, of which The American Dream and The Death of Bessie Smith are now on view. The classics are represented by an exciting and remarkably durable Hamlet at the Phoenix, and by Hedda Gabler, with Anne Meacham doing Ibsen to the hilt.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Sumer: The Dawn of Art, by Andre Parrot. A handsome display of bookmaking devoted to some of the earliest art works fashioned by man in his first major civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Under the general editorship of Andre Malraux, Sumer is the panoramic premiere of some 40 volumes that promise to reduce the celebrated "Museum Without Walls" to paper.

At Fever Pitch, by David Caute. As ineffectual Britons drop another position of empire, cynical black Africans claw at each other for the pieces in this searing first novel that explores, rather than exploits, the headlines.

The Brothers M, by Tom Stacey. Another disturbing African novel about an oddly matched pair of students, McNair (white) and Mukasa (black), and a journey that turns them into Cain and Abel.

The Complete Poems of Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven, and Poems by George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner. The two finest Greek poets of the 20th century, in evocative translations that capture each writer's cruel sense of the past and timeless sense of man's fate.

Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, by George Kennan. A graceful, informative account of the relations between Russia and the West, 1917-45.

The Morning and the Evening, by Joan Williams, and The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy. The small-town South (Mississippi) and the big-city South (New Orleans) chronicled with arresting talent.

Phaedra and Figaro, translated respectively by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. The full-bodied red wine of Racine and the light, frivolous white of Beaumarchais, distinctively poured for discriminating palates.

Best Sellers

( SQRT previously included in TIME'S choice of Best Reading)

FICTION 1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (1)* SQRT 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (2) SQRT 3. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (3) SQRT 4. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene (4) 5. Advise and Consent, Drury (6) 6. Hawaii, Michener (8) SQRT 7. Midcentury, Dos Passes (5) SQRT 8. Winnie Hie Pu, Milne (7) 9. A Journey to Matecumbe, Taylor 10. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (9)

NONFICTION SQRT 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) 2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (3) SQRT 3. The New English Bible (2) SQRT 4. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (4) 5. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (5) 6. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Mauser (10) SQRT 7. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (7) SQRT 8. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan 9. The City in History, Mumford (9) 10. Reality in Advertising, Reeves (6)

* All times are E.D.T.

* Position on last week's list.

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