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Sun., Nov. 25
Issues and Answers (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz analyzes the state and future of the U.S. economy.
Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf (ABC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The third re-run of the award-winning original, well worth still another look.
Walt Disney (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The second of a two-part dramatization of Ludwig van Beethoven's life and music. Color.
As Caesar Sees It (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Sid spoofs lawyer shows, police shows, quiz shows, westerns and panel shows, but not his own.
Mon., Nov. 26
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Documentary on upper-class life in Peru. Color.
Tues., Nov. 27
Close-up (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Howard K. Smith narrates "India: The Troubled Giant," a documentary examination of the current border war and its effects on the country's politics and people.
THEATER On Broadway
Beyond the Fringe. Four high-IQ British imps skewer cliches and milk sacred cows for irreverent merriment. The chief scholar-clown, Dr. Jonathan Miller, is a droll, gravity-defying pixy for whom a new vocabulary of humor will have to be invented.
Tchin-Tchin is a strange and oddly affecting play in which an Italo-American contractor and a proper Englishwoman are thrown into each other's company because their respective spouses are having an affair. Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn touch the playgoer's nerve ends, crazybones, and heart strings with deceptive ease and authority.
Mr. President, with Robert Ryan in the title role and Nanette Fabray as First Lady, is a taste-exempt musical that is bulging with more than $2,600,000 in advance-ticket-sale swag. The patrons of its 385 theater parties (largely benefit affairs) may redefine playgoing for charity as "painful giving."
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, is an annihilating war of love-hatred fought between a middle-aged history professor and his wife, in which a younger guest couple are also savaged.
Arthur Hill, as the professor, raises acting to the level of genius, and Uta Hagen, as his wife, is a virtuoso Medusa.
The Affair makes a sleepy British university common room crackle with the charges and countercharges of a courtroom trial. Adapted from the novel by C. P. Snow, this drama is concerned with justice for a man whose personality is revolting, and whose politics are scarcely less so.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Tale for the Mirror, by Hortense Cal-isher. Masterful anecdotes of human hope, and foibles for our time, set in exurbia-on-Hudson, written by a subtle and stylish mistress of the short story.
Renoir, My Father, by Jean Renoir.
The quirky character of the great impres sionist painter, fondly reported by his gifted son, makes this one of the best biographies of the year.
A Dancer in Darkness, by David Stac-ton. Seventeenth century Playwright John Webster's ill-fated heroine, the duchess of Malfi, is chillfully done in, this time in silky, horrifying prose.
Black Cargoes, by Daniel Mannix. The breathtakingly brutal history of how some 15 million Africans were transported to the New World — the more telling because quietly told.