TELEVISION

Wednesday, December 27 THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).-"Woody Allen Looks at 1967" with a satiric eye, calling on Conservative William F. Buckley Jr. for comment, Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli for musical assistance.

THE JONATHAN WINTERS SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Winters--in a host of guises--welcomes Red Skelton, Barbara Eden and the Doors to the premiere of his weekly comedy-variety series.

Thursday, December 28 YEAR OUT, YEAR IN (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). ABC correspondents led by Howard K. Smith review the events behind 1967's headlines--the Viet Nam war, the six-day Arab-Israeli war, civil rights riots, devaluation of the pound, turmoil in Red China--and try to predict what will make news in 1968.

Friday, December 29

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Honoring Cellist Pablo Casals on his 91st birthday, "Casals at Marlboro" catches the master at last summer's Marlboro Festival in Vermont. Films of his performance, and talks with such colleagues as Pianist Rudolf Serkin and Violinists Alexander Schneider and Jaime Laredo.

Saturday, December 30

ABC SPORTS' WINTER AND SUMMER OLYMPICS PREVIEW (ABC, 2-2:15 p.m.). Sportscaster Chris Schenkel discusses coverage of the Tenth Winter Olympics (Feb. 6-18) from Grenoble, France, and the Summer Olympics (Oct. 12-27) from Mexico City.

GATOR BOWL (ABC, 2:15-5 p.m.). Penn State meets Florida State in Jacksonville.

HOCKEY GAME OF THE WEEK (CBS, 4:15 p.m. to conclusion). A chance to see two of the league's expansion teams, with the Philadelphia Flyers v. the Los Angeles Kings at Los Angeles.

43rd ANNUAL SHRINE EAST-WEST FOOTBALL GAME (NBC, 4:30 p.m. to conclusion). Oldest of the college all-star football contests, from San Francisco.

THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Frank Fontaine returns for a guest stint as Crazy Guggenham. Among Gleason's other guests: Louis Armstrong, Kate Smith, Milton Berle.

KING ORANGE JAMBOREE PARADE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Highlights of the 33rd annual Orange Bowl Festival, live from Miami, showing the parade of floats, girls and bands with comment by Raymond Burr and Anita Bryant.

Sunday, December 31 DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). "Peace Corps" takes a look at the preparations for Far Eastern service at the Peace Corps training center in Hawaii: les sons in everything from bathing in a sarong to paddling a Malaysian canoe.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.).

New York City Mayor John Lindsay is the guest.

ZARETHAN (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). A trip to the excavations in the Jordan River Valley, where archaeologists think they may find the ancient city of Zarethan, the 12th century B.C. site of bronze casting for Solomon's Temple. Excavation Director Dr. James B. Pritchard discusses why his digging may give the world a better understanding of Biblical history.

Monday, January 1

COTTON BOWL (CBS, 1:45 p.m. to conclusion). Alabama v. Texas A. & M. at Dallas.

SUGAR BOWL (NBC, 1:45 p.m. to conclusion). Louisiana State v. Wyoming at New Orleans.

ROSE BOWL (NBC, 4:45 p.m. to conclusion). Southern California v. Indiana at Pasadena.

ORANGE BOWL (NBC, 7:45 p.m. to conclusion). Oklahoma v. Tennessee at Miami.

THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Lynn Redgrave and Mike Douglas are Carol's first guests for 1968.

Tuesday, January 2

CBS NEWS CORRESPONDENTS REPORT (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Eric Sevareid moderates a discussion among CBS foreign correspondents on "America and the World," Part 1 of a two-part year-end report.

THEATER

On Broadway

SPOFFORD. Playwright-Director Herman Shumlin has performed an autopsy on Peter DeVries' novel Reuben, Reuben. Melvyn Douglas gives a cunningly ingratiating performance as a retired Connecticut Yankee chicken farmer who finds New York commuters the bane and boon of his existence. The melancholy fact remains that like an obituary an adaptation of a novel to the stage says good things of the dead without restoring them to life.

THE SHOW-OFF is George Kelly's comedy of 1924, but it is datelessly entertaining. Its hero (Clayton Corzatte) is a braying, backslapping braggart with the laugh of a hyena and the grandiloquent transparency of a born liar. The actress who commandeers the stage in this APA revival is Helen Hayes in her best role since Queen Victoria.

HOW NOW, DOW JONES puts a musical clinker into Broadway's Christmas stocking. Set in the golden canyons of Wall Street, the libretto manages an occasional up-tick of humor about stocks, bonds and mutual funds, but in general the proceedings are as cheery as Black Friday.

PANTAGLEIZE. The APA Repertory Company mounts a stylistically rich production of the Belgian playwright Michel de Ghelderode's grotesque historical farce. From the cornucopia of his imagination comes spilling forth Pantagleize (Ellis Rabb), a Chaplinesque figure who, equipped with only an umbrella, a silly expression and an innocent greeting, manages to start a revolution.

EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN. Edward Albee transfers a bleak comedy by the late Giles Cooper from England to U.S. suburbia. Barry Nelson and Barbara Bel Geddes play a couple who can't make ends meet until she finds a career in the world's oldest profession.

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, or is it Guildencrantz and Rosenstern, are Shakespeare's Tweedledee and Tweedledum and Tom Stoppard's hapless heroes. Buffeted about in the maelstrom of emotions and events at Elsinore. they are pulled out of their niches to do they know not what, nor to what purpose. Actors John Wood, Brian Murray and Paul Hecht respond like finely tuned instruments to Stoppard's inciteful prose and Derek Goldby's insightful direction.

Off Broadway

IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. Euripides examines the limits to which a man's blind ambition can push him in the appalling story of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his own daughter for the sake of military victory. As a wronged wife and wounded mother, Irene Papas is a vessel of chained intensity.

THE TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED. In this double bill introducing his work to the U.S., Nigerian Playwright Wole Soyinka proves himself to be both a satirist and a mythopoet, blending modern mockery and irony with a residual reverence for the African past, bringing his heroes out of tribal folklore to convincing stage life.

IN CIRCLES. In the Judson Poets' Theater production of her 1920 circular play, Gertrude Stein is shown to be the still-reigning queen of sensible nonsense and the undisputed mistress of logical illogic.

CINEMA

GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER. Stanley Kramer's new film sets out bravely to face the problems of the marriage of a Negro man (Sidney Poitier) to a white girl (Katharine Houghton), but retreats into sugary platitudes despite the rallying performances of Spencer Tracy as the girl's liberal but reluctant father and Katharine Hepburn as her sentimental mother.

BEDAZZLED. Two members of the wily Beyond the Fringe foursome play Faust and loose with an old theme as a meek short-order cook (Dudley Moore) sells his soul to the Devil (Peter Cook) in return for seven wishes.

LEMONADE JOE. The Czechs kid the Levis off the American western in a spoof from the same bag as Cat Ballon.

HOW I WON THE WAR. A platoon of World War II tommies (including Michael Crawford, Jack MacGowran, John Lennon) tries to build an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines, which results in some moments of explosive humor in Director Richard Lester's surrealistic treatment of the horrors of war.

CHAPPAQUA. Conrad Rooks plays himself as the mixed-up son of a rich man who becomes a junkie until he finally manages to pull out of the downward spiral, in this cinemautobiography that was part of his own rehabilitation program.

BOOKS

Best Reading

TOLSTOY, by Henri Troyat. The paradoxes, inconsistencies and greatness of Tolstoy's life and art are brilliantly recreated in the most thorough biography to date of the Russian literary giant.

WILLIAM MORRIS, HIS LIFE, WORK AND FRIENDS, by Philip Henderson. A biography of the 19th century English artist who excelled as a poet, philosopher, painter, architect, furniture designer and interior decorator.

THE FUTURE OF GERMANY, by Karl Jaspers. In a lucid and persuasive essay, the 85-year-old German philosopher urges his countrymen to build a nation based on individual responsibility rather than on an atavistic dream of a perfect state.

JOURNEY INTO THE WHIRLWIND, by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg. An intensely personal account of the author's experiences in one of Stalin's slave-labor camps.

THE COLLECTED STORIES OF ANDRE MAUROIS. In 38 tales framed as conversations, recollections and letters, the late distinguished partisan in the battle of the sexes tours the terrain of women who are either wise or foolish, vital or declining, in love or remembering what love was like.

THE YEAR 2000, by Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener. Members of New York's Hudson Institute, one of the nation's leading think tanks, offer educated speculation on the quality of life at the beginning of the 21st century.

MEMOIRS: 1925-1950, by George F. Kennan. During a crucial quarter-century of American-Russian relations, Diplomat Kennan was in official disfavor, first for being too harsh toward the Soviets, then for being too soft; hindsight shows that he was right more often than wrong.

THE SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. A mod family in Brisbane meets its fate in this lively social satire by an Australian craftsman of the novel.

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. The passion and horror of the 1831 Negro slave revolt in Virginia are conveyed with eloquence in this Southern-born writer's fourth novel.

THE MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. A popular Yiddish storyteller proves that he also has the insights of a major novelist in this tragicomedy about the changes that wrench a Polish-Jewish family in the late 1800s.

THE PYRAMID, by William Golding. In this ostensibly simple tale of a bright lad who sacrifices principles to scale the ladder of the British class system, Golding explores his favorite theme--all men inherit the evil of their ancestry.

ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. This final volume of their 38-year labor to record man's progress across the span of 20 civilizations proves once again that the Durants are unique historians.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (1 last week)

2. Topaz, Uris (2)

3. The Exhibitionist, Sutton (4)

4. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (3)

5. The Chosen, Potok (5)

6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (8)

7. Christy, Marshall (6)

8. A Night of Watching, Arnold (7)

9. The Arrangement, Kazan (9) 10. The Instrument, O'Hara

NONFICTION 1. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (2)

2. Our Crowd, Birmingham (1)

3. Memoirs: 1925-1950, Kennan (6)

4. Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker (3)

5. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (4)

6. Twenty Letters to a Friend, Alliluyeva (5)

7. The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology

8. Incredible Victory, Lord (7)

9. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (10) 10. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends,

Eisenhower

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