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THE PRISONER'S DREAM (Capitol). Charles Lee Guy III has been an inmate of California State Prison since he was 16. The songs he has learned to sing there all reflect his sorry circumstance—and among them is the latest composition of a prison chum, country music's Spade Cooley. Guy's woeful voice and guitar accompaniment fit the spirit of his music, and in this remarkable album he has the power of a young white Leadbelly.

ODETTA SINGS FOLK SONGS (RCA Victor). Among misery shouters, Odetta has no equal, but here her laments are moody, her voice quietly her own, her songs familiar but seldom so well sung.

FLATT AND SCRUGGS AT CARNEGIE HALL (Columbia). Flatt, the Ev Dirksen of country talkin', and Scruggs, the Paganini of the five-string banjo, in further fruitful collaboration—this time before a downhome crowd up North.

THE SECOND BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM (Columbia) is just as good as the first, which is saying plenty. Lapses in pitch and occasionally blunt imitations of Lena Home can be quickly forgiven in eleven unusual interpretations by the most intelligent young singer around.

EVERYBODY WANTS FREEDOM (Battle). No song of the day has a better claim to attention than We Shall Overcome. Here, sung in company with twelve other songs of the integration movement by a group of freedom riders, sitters-in and freedom marchers called the Carolina Freedom Fighters, it movingly conveys the fervent force of the revolution it heralds.

CINEMA

THE CONJUGAL BED. There's no fool like an old fool, and it's sometimes painfully funny to see one learn just how foolish he is in this Italian comedy about a middle-aged man (Ugo Tognazzi) who marries a young girl (Marina Vlady).

THE MUSIC ROOM. India's Satyajit Ray tells a poignant and profoundly Asiatic tale about a man who ruined his life to save his face.

THE SUITOR. This slap-happy story about a young man in a hurry to get married is a magnificent catalogue of sight gags, all of them written, directed and personally interpreted by a young French funnyman named Pierre Etaix.

WIVES AND LOVERS. A jack (Van Johnson) and two queens (Janet Leigh, Martha Hyer) make a full house in this amusing game of stud devised by Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt and Director John Rich, who for the most part play their cards very well indeed.

THE LEOPARD. Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career in one of the year's finest films: Luchino Visconti's noble, ironic and richly mournful lament for the death of feudalism in Sicily.

LORD OF THE FLIES. With scarcely a nod to Novelist William Golding's chilling allegory of the essential evil in man's nature, the producers end up with little more for your money than a scary adventure story about a band of castaway boys on a desert island.

THE GREAT ESCAPE. Maybe not as good as Paul Brickhill's book but still a bloody good show that describes a mass break from a German P.W. camp during World War II.

BOOKS

THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the eighth volume of their massive study of Western civilization, the Durants describe with wit and a wealth of anecdote an age preoccupied by the confrontation between rationalism and faith.