I went to a school, my first school in New York, which was called Ethical Culture. Quite a famous school founded by Liberal, as they were called, Jews, mostly German Jews. German Jews incidentally in New York were... the peak of their social circle and in fact there's an ugly word, 'kike', which Americans have used, and they still use for all I know, of certain kinds of Jews or indeed of all Jews. But the truth of the matter is that the German Jews whose names did not end in ski used the term 'kike' and devised it to describe peoples whose names, i.e. Poles and other lesser folk of that kind, Eastern Europeans, ended in ski and hence they were 'kikes'. Not particularly nice, but that's the way that the Jews can be. 

So I went to Ethical Culture which was liberal and sought, without any sort of shame or doubt, to make assimilated Jews, that is to say good Americans, out of Jews. And I was quite good at school. Not that there was very much labour involved because it was kind of free and I had a teacher called Miss Henry and she thought well of me and I had a number of nannies, some black, some Irish. I don't know what my mother did because I was an only child, quite common in the slump, in the Depression. My mother went to classes, I think, and went shopping at Saks and I Miller and all the usual places in Fifth Avenue. We didn't have much money and she never had any... she never had a bank account all her life while my father was alive, but she did have checking accounts as they used to call them. And she was frugal and very good at sales and smart, and smart in every sense, that is to say that she always looked very good. I was always proud of my mother.