"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."

Class, Middle class, Parents

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"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."

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"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."

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"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."

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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."

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"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."

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"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."

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