Cinema: May 24, 1963

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Forge of Democracy, by Neil MacNeil. How the House of Representatives evolved from a rowdy "Bear Garden," where many a man carried a pistol, to a reasonably responsible voice of government.

Our Mother's House, by Julian Gloag. A little masterpiece of the macabre in which seven London youngsters bury their mother in the garden, clout Dad with a poker, and evolve the forms of a religion based on the dead.

The Tin Drum, by Giinter Grass. A grotesque dwarfs-eye view of the Third Reich and its aftermath told by the most powerfully imaginative novelist to emerge in postwar Germany.

Speculations About Jakob, by Uwe Johnson. Writing in a fragmented style, another gifted young German uses a whodunit plot to explore the small tensions and concerns of his divided world.

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FICTION

1. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger (3, last week) 2. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (2) 3. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (1) 4. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (4) 5. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (5) 6. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (10) 7. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton (8) 8. The Tin Drum, Grass (7) 9. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (6) 10. The Centaur, Updike

NONFICTION 1 . The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (1) 2. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (2) 3. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (6) 4. The Ordeal of Power, Hughes (3) 5. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (4) 6. Forever Free, Adamson ( 10) 7. The Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith (7) 8. The Feminine Mystique, Friedan 9. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis 10. This Kind of War, Fehrenbach (9)