Origins—"Yarmalintz,
I think, was the name of the town."
Family
Life— "Father was an anarchist atheist."
Early
Social Influences— "The first thing he did was shlep me
down to the public library."
High
School— " . . . they had a gorgeous campus."
Choosing
Brooklyn— "it was nearby, and it was free."
Social
Life and Academics— "Writing papers and going to the library
and reading the textbooks on the train."
Politics—
"I wasn't very, very left. I was a little left."
Why
They Joined the Project— " . . . and you got a straw hat!"
Preparing
for the Summer— "I had never been particularly aware of
fields."
Accommodations—
"She was from Europe so this was not upsetting to her."
Academics—
"He wasn't about to flunk anybody."
Early
Experiences— "I think it might have been my first pair of
dungarees."
Farm
Work— "We did not sing, not like the movies."
Working
Conditions— "There were such inequalities."
Protests—
"Radicals in the corn and bean fields."
Interactions
with Locals— "Levine, Levy, Levinson,
Nathanson."
Social
Life— " . . . and then we did such
a stupid thing."
Back
to Campus— "This was not real life.
You know?"
Out
in the World— "We lived in a furnished
room in the Bronx."
Later
Life— "I made eighteen trips to Morocco."