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shortly after Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had been sentenced to death. A Rosenberg relative was accosting people getting off the train

we had a library that was also tiny and somewhat decrepit

The Red Badge of Courage; Moby Dick; and a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

especially opera and choral music. As an adolescent I had sung alto in the local synagogue choir and had a fairly good voice. I was ""fairly"" good--but not very good-- at lots of things in addition to singing: athletics

they shake back and forth while standing up. At a certain point in my life

my friends and I decided to form a social athletic club - - a euphemism for a Jewish gang

and we took along one particularly orthodox classmate who insisted on wearing his yamulka during the show. The rest of us had tucked ours into our pockets. Of course we sat in the front row

Yitz’s faith in me led to consider college. My father thought I should go to work and take some classes at night

maudlin nostalgia sets in and he begins to run

as we all did. We called it “Knight House” and our boastful Latin slogan was “semil equis satis”—“once a knight is enough.” Since we were all orthodox Jews

a Harvard education and a Yale degree. (I now have what I think is the best of both worlds

who combined an active constitutional law practice with teaching and writing. Although we could not have been more different in background and bearing—he was a tall

Judge Bazelon came storming out of his office holding a paper and not smiling. I knew that he got advance notice of the bar results and I thought that he was coming to tell me I had flunked. Instead he shouted

one can only imagine how shocked I was when Judge Bazelon came back to the office from a lunch at the White House in mid-October and told his entire staff

he said contemptuously of Joseph Kennedy. I don’t like them and I don’t trust them. Look at the way they screwed up the Bay of Pigs. A bunch of arrogant amateurs.”