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Frontiers of Faith (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). A discussion of the relationship between Christianity and freedom.
FYI (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The Emergent Minorities tries to decide what role minority groups will take in U.S. politics.
Tues., June 14
How Tall Is a Giant? (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). A Mexican film (in English) tells the story of the 14 impoverished kids from Monterrey who crossed the Rio Grande to win the Little League Baseball Championship of 1957.
THEATER On Broadway
Bye Bye Birdie. Shrieking, ranting, rock- 'n'-rolling teen-agers turn this musical about an Elvis Presleyish crooner (Dick Gautier), a mamma-tied agent (Dick Van Dyke) and his leggy secretary (Chita Rivera) into an infectiously lively party.
Toys in the Attic. The women in a family discover an unpleasant fact of life in Lillian Hellman's taut drama: when their one man gets rich, he no longer needs their mothering care.
The Tenth Man. Paddy Chayefsky digs deep into Jewish mythology to find a cure for a girl with a very modern malady.
The Miracle Worker. In William Gibson's story of the dark life led by blind little Helen Keller, Patty Duke as Helen and Anne Bancroft as her teacher Annie Sullivan give radiant performances.
Fiorello! Director George Abbott's pace and pep keep New York's razzle dazzling, and the Little Flower too interesting to wilt.
West Side Story. Gang warfare in the slums of Manhattan still moves along in a lively revival, thanks to Shakespeare's inspiration and some remarkably fancy-footed rumbles.
Off Broadway
The Prodigal. A brilliantly modern Orestes.
The Balcony. In Jean Genet's ironic comedy, a house is not only a home but the whole world, and the pleasures bought there are not only of the flesh but of the imagination.
Little Mary Sunshine. A hit musical that parodies the sugary operettas of Friml and Kern.
Ernest in Love. Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in a tuneful adaptation.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Saviors of God, by Nikos Kazantzakis. This early book of aphorisms shows the intense spiritual longing of modern Greece's most noted writer; for Humanist Kazantzakis, God was, essentially, the search for God.
Three Circles of Light, by Pietro di Donate. A Saroyanesque merry-go-round, spinning to music not always merry, about Italian immigrants in West Hoboken— the scene of the author's famed first novel, Christ in Concrete.
Homage to Clio, by W. H. Auden. At 53, Poet Auden may long ago have said everything he had to say, but his talent remains prodigious, and in this collection of recent poems, his ruminative restatements are often effective.
The Big Ward, by Jacoba van Velde. The Dutch author writes without tricks or sentimentality about an ordinary old woman who accepts death with dignity.
Through Streets Broad and Narrow, by Gabriel Fielding. With torrents of prose, antic characters and more than enough plot, the author follows the hero of two earlier novels (Brotherly Love, In the Time of Greenbloom) on a calamitous expedition to Ireland.