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"It was the fall of 1948, I was entering my senior year at City College, and the country was in turmoil, politically."

"The fall of 1947 was much like the fall of 1946 and 1945: classes at CCNY started right after Labor Day and I had a heavy schedule."

"As soon as school ended in June of 1942, I started to look for a summer job."

"When I was about nine years old, my mother began a routine which we followed until I was a teen-ager..."

"In 1933, I was five years old. My father had died in 1931, and my mother was finally able to come to grips with the fact that we should move from our four-room Beck Street apartment in the Bronx, to a smaller apartment that would cost less."

"Lenny Rubin was the first friend I made after entering City College in September 1945."

"I was 12 years old and had been going to Hebrew school for about three years."

"In six days, the United States will, hopefully, be electing a new president, and, thinking about it, I found myself reliving the first presidential election that I am able to remember."

"When I was about five years old, my mother 'enrolled' me in the Isaac Gerson Foundation Hebrew Day Nursery. "

"For some people, their lives would be empty and unfulfilled without music."