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SUSPICION (Crusader). One of the few ballads heard above the din of rock 'n' roll, delivered by Newcomer Terry Stafford. His cheerful voice betrays the lyrics: the dark doubts he harbors about his love seem to make his day, and why not? They promise to make his fortune.
DAWN (Philips) introduces a new kind of lover-hero. After some rhythmic screeching and wailing, the Four Seasons implore little Dawn to go away: "Think what your family would say. Think what the future would be with a poor boy like me."
CINEMA
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. Committing slight but sly infractions of the thriller formula, Director Terence Young (Doctor No) sends James Bond, alias 007, alias Actor Sean Connery, on a binge of shocks and yocks that is more flip, and more fun, than Ian Fleming's novel.
BECKET. Richard Burton as England's 12th century martyr opposes the King Henry II of Peter O'Toole in this superbly played, eye-and ear-filling film spectacle based on Jean Anouilh's pungent historical drama.
THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT casts Peter Sellers as a concert pianist enduring the adulation of two zany New York teenagers, Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth, whose tandem movie debut is a triumph of scene stealing.
THE SERVANT is Director Joseph Losey's slick, frequently spellbinding study of class distinction in Britain. Dirk Bogarde contributes a perfect blend of good manners and menace as the "gentleman's gentleman" who destroys his master.
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. In three bawdy-to-bitter tales directed by Vittorio De Sica, the game of love looks like an Italian invention, and Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni obviously know just how it goes.
THE SILENCE. A lesbian, a nymphomaniac and an innocent child dominate Ingmar Bergman's bold, brilliant but ambiguous drama in which God seems to have tuned out on the human race, and vice versa.
DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB.
Stanley Kubrick's doomsday comedy-of-terrors starring Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott and the ubiquitous Peter Sellers.
THE GUEST is a faithful film adaptation of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, made memorable by Donald Pleasence, repeating his stage role as the vicious old vagrant who bites the hands that feed him.
BOOKS
Best Reading
FIVE PLAYS, by Federico Garcia Lorca. These dramas, less well-known than Lorca's tragedies, have the same soaring poetry, which makes them better to read than to act.
THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. A companion novel to The Wapshot Chronicle in which the family ghosts of the Wapshots' past prove more real than the sterile realities of today's computer communities and suburbia.
SELECTED POEMS, by John Crowe Ransom. Though most of these poems are not new, they deservedly won the National Book Award this year. Elegant, lyric, often elegiac, they form a most consistently excellent body of American poetry.
KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE, by Shirley Ann Grau. In its quiet, assured way, this is a novelist's triumph: a story of miscegenation in the South that could be sensational but is written with the calculated artlessness and ambivalence of Light in August.