(Continued from Cuba 1963) In the summer of 1964 the civil rights movement launched a major campaign, Freedom Summer, to bring voter registration and other basic civil rights to the Deep South, centering on Mississippi. Viki and I spent the summer in New York, working. I had a summer job with a branch of the …
(Continued from Cuba 1963) After the summer in Cuba with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Robert F. Williams and all the rest, Herbert Marcuse at Brandeis was a bit of an anti-climax. My room in a Cambridge apartment near Harvard Square at that time (fall of 1963) looked like a set from a Godard movie. Posters …
Our new home in Sea Gate was an attic in an old mansion at 4120 Manhattan Avenue. It had the same sloping ceilings as our old place on Feststrasse in Frankfurt, but it was only two flights up, a great improvement. I had a little cubbyhole of a room, and soon decorated its walls with pictures of …
(Continued from Memories of Frankfurt) The S.S. United States was the state of the art in ocean travel in 1953. She had been built just a year earlier for the express purpose of beating the British giants, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, for the transatlantic speed record. She more than broke the record, she smashed …
MOSAIC #12 On January 30, 1933, the infamous thing happened: Hitler took power in Germany. It was my last year in high school. Soon the curriculum changed drastically and we were told absolutely laughable lies. For instance, the Jews (and the Arabs) had contributed nothing to civilization. Albert Einstein was not a Jew. Jesus was …
