Word: hodja
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While "That's the Way It Goes," an ensemble number without a solo, was bland yet well sung, the songs that followed, "Hodja" and "How Dare You" were spicier, with Rebecca Musher, Blasko Ristic and Victoria Martinez giving impressive performances. The subdued, jazzy "I'm Feelin' Right" and "The Carwash Blues," featuring a strong solo from Tim Krochuck and humorous staging, rounded out the set. Unfortunately, the encores did not provide the tasty a capella treats the crowd demanded, although Karin Hagaman's beautiful, quivering alto gave "If' a touch of style...
...prospect is a landslide for the Republicans of old (76) ex-President Ismet Inonu, heir of the late great Kemal Ataturk. In coffeehouses the Turks cheered the return to democracy, happily discussed the merits of the new and old parties over rose-scented glasses of raisin liquor. As Nasreddin Hodja, a popular medieval sage, once declared: "When God wishes to make a man happiest, he causes him to lose his donkey, then find it again...
Forgiveness. Unhappily for Hodja Boyar, some of the Odemis faithful were Republicans, and in no time at all they had the young priest haled into court on the charge that he had violated a Turkish law forbidding religious participation in politics. The Menderes government, earnestly wooing the hard-shell rural Moslem vote, did its best for the hodja. When the court of first instance found him guilty and sentenced him to ten months in jail, the public prosecutor, in a curious performance, tried to get the Court of Appeals to overturn the conviction. And when that failed, the prosecutor appealed...
...Judiciary Committee blandly concluded that Hodja Boyar "spoke in a moment of religious ecstasy and should be forgiven," and it seemed foregone that the entire Assembly would next agree. But when the motion reached the floor, it ran into eloquent and unyielding opposition from 72-year-old ex-President Ismet Inonu, Ataturk's successor and now leader of the opposition Republican People's Party. He invoked a strong feeling: though Turkey remains a Moslem country, a whole generation of Turks has been brought up to believe that progress and democracy became possible only after Ataturk abolished...
...Menderes, went out of his way to tell students at Turkey's Air Force Academy last week: "We must never give reaction a chance to return to Turkey." Within 24 hours after President Bayar spoke, Turkey's legislators by an almost unanimous vote refused to pardon Hodja Boyar. For all Turks who believe in separation of church and state, it was a sweet victory, except for the fact that when police went to escort him to prison, Hodja Boyar was nowhere to be found...