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"My mother had an expression which struck me as a meanspirited put-down, but rather accurate: In Yiddish: 'A kee gayt tzum Kiev, un kimt fun Kiev, un blaybt a kee.'"

"As I put together 'my story' it occurred to me that it is like the resumes we prepared when looking for a job..."

"Observing my son's recent struggle to decide between two job possibilities, which may well determine his future, brought back my struggle to choose between a career in education or trade unionism."

"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."

"Ever since my mother died, I have been thinking about, and telling people, what a remarkable woman my mother was."

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

"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."

"1951 was a very busy year for me."

Alternate version of "My Career as a Lawyer"

"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.'"