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"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."

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

"By the time I entered high school, I knew there were occasions when one 'dressed up'..."

"I guess the first time I heard of Gilbert and Sullivan was in junior high school."

"Whenever I begin to write a new piece, my tendency is to do it chronologically." (Fragment)

"I abhor waste. I am troubled by a society that is driven by built-in obsolescence."

"It was June 1952. The original plan--for Sylvia and me, together with our friends Sid and Barbara, to learn how to drive, buy a car and travel across the country during the summer--was scrapped."

"As youngsters, we have all been asked by well meaning relatives: What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"My cousin Rozzie is 3 ½ years younger than me."

"I recently read an excellent piece by Elaine Bernard of Harvard’s Labor and Worklife Program in the Fall 2008 issue of DSA’s Democratic Left."