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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

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.”

and he didn’t have close connections to the Kennedys.

and especially with prosecutors. He knew he could never win his battles by relying on current public opinion

especially those involving defendants who could not afford an adequate defense and those with serious mental illnesses. He would ask his clerks to scour the records of cases—even those not assigned to him—for evidence of injustice. He told me that most indigent defendants—and m...