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"There are some things a father never forgets, and the birth of his first child is one of them."

"Perhaps I am being too hard on myself, but in retrospect, I find it hard to believe that my life through the late 30s seemed largely unaffected (and unaware) by what was going on in the world."

Early partial draft of "A Child's View of the World in the '30s"

"A couple of weeks ago, I was browsing the bookshelves of the Brookline Public Library and came across a book called 'Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War.'"

"In 2009 it will be 60 years since I graduated from City College. Over these six decades, I have bored countless friends and family expressing my debt to my college..."

"In the fall of 1965, I went to work for the US Commission on Civil Rights as a Field Representative in Washington, DC. "

"My friend Phil suggested that, when we have our next Reading Out Loud, we discuss 'Judaism, Our Children and Us.'"

"It is June, 2007 and I am 79 1/2 years old. I have been writing my memoirs for several years, on and off, and I have touched on many facets of my life [...] But I woke up this morning with 'health' on my mind..."

"In the summer of 1956, I called Manny Muravchik to ask to meet with him. I had been told that he knew just about everybody in the labor movement. "

"It was a slow morning at the Field Services Division of the US Commission on Civil Rights. "