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"Protests are mounting on the entire planet against the U.S. court's disgraceful sentencing of Johnny Harris on a fabricated charge," declared Tass. According to the Soviet news agency, a peasant from the South Russian region of Krasnodar described Harris' fate as "tantamount to a lynching!" As for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUMAN RIGHTS: The Strange Case of Johnny Harris | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Johnny who? Even many civil rights activists in the U.S. would be puzzled by the Soviet press campaign on behalf of a "new Martin Luther King" who was on the verge of becoming a martyr of American racist injustice. A native of Birmingham, Harris, 32, seems an improbable choice as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUMAN RIGHTS: The Strange Case of Johnny Harris | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

A musical lives by the book or dies by the book. What Bob Fosse proves in Dancin ' is that regardless of driving energy, exquisite symmetry of motion and flawless execution, a musical bereft of a book is stillborn. Watching Dancin' is like watching the tentacles of an octopus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Corybantic Rites on Broadway | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Jordan may not be an Athenian democracy, but we surely rate better than the index score of 17 on political freedom that you accord us on your map of the world's economic systems. Jordan has never had a political execution, and His Majesty King Hussein has repeatedly pardoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1978 | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

GOSH DARN, Lady Be Good ain't deep. The Gershwin musical is now at Agassiz under the co-sponsorship of Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid and North House. What do we find under the surface of Lady Be Good? Let us ponder. We find, alas, no intelligent treatment of sensitive issues...

Author: By Chris Healey, | Title: Good Enough Gershwin | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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