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"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."

"In the spring of 1979, the staff director of the US Commission on Civil Rights announced plans to open a New England Regional Office."

"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."

"Both of them suspected it may not work."

"When something bad (but not really bad) happens, it is not a total loss if you can get a story out of it, as my friend Bob would say."

"I don't believe in spirits."

"They have been married for 31 years."

"Some time ago, I wrote about my courtship of, and marriage to Sylvia."

"We have been married for over 32 years."

"Thirty-four years! That is a long time." (Fragment)