In "The Old Teacher," Grossman's skillfully layered story about the occupied town, an elderly Jew, Rosenthal, watches as the residents of his apartment building turn on one another.
Riding between the three areas, feeling the roads narrow and the building turn slightly more haphazard, illustrated the challenges of introducing an advanced bike-share system to places fully developed before the concept even made sense.
Playboy and The Paris Review, periodicals whose subscriber lists don't much overlap but which have in common that their respective founding editors, Hugh Hefner and George Plimpton, are still on the masthead (and, in the case of Plimpton — who doesn't spend all day in his pajamas but does live above the store — still in the building), turn fifty this year.
We round the ramparts of the old city, grind up a cobbled street past the hulking presidential administration building, turn right at the canary-yellow, Renaissance-style Baku Philharmonic, and zig-zag on up.Suddenly, the illuminated masterpieces end and we are on streets where even the streetlights do not work.
You can't actually see it from the main Potterrow entrance, but walk past the mosque building, turn right, and you'll find everyone from students to middle-aged tourists chowing down at communal trestle tables, under two, large brightly coloured corrugated-plastic canopies.
"What's happened is that the review group has acted as cover for the university doing what some people in the university probably wanted to do all along, which is to steal our building, turn it into what they hope will be a profitable student services centre, and abolish the democratic element of the student union".
