The Red Sox, currently in fourth place in the American League, will hold down Fenway Park at intervals during the summer. Prices range from $1 in the bleachers to $3 for the best box seat.

Wine, Women and Song

After dinner, it's off to glory: either the flicks or the bars. Presumably you're under 21--and that's the legal age, rigidly enforced in most, though not all, bars--so let's start with the movies. The good old dependables are the Kenmore, the Exeter (usually British imports), the Telepix in Boston, and the Brattle in Cambridge. For the sex-and-sadism spectaculars, amble down Washington St., the 42nd St. of Boston and more garish than anything along Broadway. There you can identify with the teen-age werewolves on the Cinemascope screens.

Now you have time for about a drink and a half before the bartender informs you gravely that he must clear all the glasses off the bar. Closing time is 1 a.m. every night except Saturday,. when midnight rings down the curtain. Local libertarians are currently engaged in a full-scale attack on the Blue Laws, but in the meantime, just drink fast. The plush scenes are the Merry-Go Round Room in the Sheraton Plaza Hotel, the Ritz Bar in the Ritz Carlton, the Keyboard Lounge in the Somerset Hotel, and the Eliot Lounge in the Eliot Hotel.

The most popular nightclubs are Storyville; where it's jazz; Blinstrub's, featuring big-name popular entertainers; Club Zara, for belly dancers; and the Polynesian Village, where the prices are high and the drinks exotic.

Less expensive are The Seven (a haven for crew cuts and madras skirts at the base of Beacon Hill); the Rathskeller (beer, tumult, and cameraderie on Commonwealth Avenue); the go-it-alone joints along Washington St., notably the Palace (where you can bring a date during the week and emerge unscathed), the Novelty Bar, and the Golden Nugget.

Forty-three Beans

If you prefer cappuccina to scotch, you're in luck; a number of coffe houses have opened up in the last several years. Charles St., with three houses within as many blocks, bids fair to compete with Greenwich Village's Macdougal St. There is folk singing at Golden Vanity, in Kenmore Square, and at The Loft, on Charles St. Probably some of the others will have entertainers during the summer, but you should check before you go. Some of the others are the Turk's Head, Cafe Yana, The Place, and the Gallery. Charles St. is no North Beach but the prices are reasonable.

Kulchur

No doubt, Boston's greatest appeal is its cultural opportunities and great institutions. Boston's art treasures rank among the world's greatest. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, located on the Fenway, stands as a monument to the success of the acquisitive instinct in art collecting. According to the rather peculiar terms of Mrs. Gardner's will, the collection can not be added to or rearranged, nor can any work be removed, nor is anything permitted to be lent to other museums.

The Museum of Fine Arts, on Huntington Avenue, includes a great collection of American art, especially of the Colonial and early Republican period. Portraits by Gilbert Stuart, Copley, and Sargent and landscapes of the Hudson River School are in this great collection.

Another great exhibit is currently at the De Cordova Museum in Lincoln which can be seen until July 2. The exhibit covers twentieth-century portraiture. The Museum of Science combines natural history, science, history, and public health, and includes a planetarium.