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...major hazard of emigration. The author managed to smuggle the microfilmed manuscript out of the Soviet Union by concealing it in the handle of a clothesbrush. Now available in Russian in the West, the book is a masterpiece of modern realism. Set in the author's native Odessa, The Courtyard tells the intermingled life stories of ten families that occupy a single tenement house. No other work of Russian fiction has portrayed the everyday life of ordinary Soviet citizens with such compassion and in such mesmerizing detail. Lvov's villain, the local party boss, and tyrant...
...teacher in the Odessa school system, I would like to remind you that the Greeks, who held scholars in the highest esteem, also prized athletes. I have never had an A-student jock who did not place English, math, science and history above athletic honors, and I have had more A-type jocks than those scraping to pass...
...team. The remaining thousands, instead of having learned to be men, as the coaches say, will have probably neglected their educations. It is one thing for an individual to decide he wants to pursue athletics at the expense of his studies. It is quite another for a community like Odessa, Texas, to sacrifice the education of all its children for a game...
...Odessa, Texas...
...million football stadium in Odessa, Texas, rises Mecca-like above the flatlands. It has seating for 19,032 people, parking for 4,756 cars, and boasts a press box and a booth for coaches. The playing field, 18 ft. below ground level, is topped with AstroTurf. This stadium was not designed for the Cowboys or the Oilers. It is for two high school teams: the Permian Panthers and their crosstown rivals, the Odessa Bronchos. The head coach at Permian earns $43,000 a year, a whole lot more than the average Permian teacher's salary of about...