[Q] You really get an introduction to the new social world of the United States at Cornell and it's radically different from what you had experienced previously.

Yes, it was much more egalitarian than England; although England was supposed to be socialist, America was supposed to be capitalist, but it was really the other way round. England was still very snobbish compared with Cornell, and Cornell I had the feeling - of course, it was a very different America from today, just as a result of the war, America was in a very egalitarian... period, it was rather unique in American life. So all these people who were in graduate school were getting paid for by the American government with the GI Bill, and there were enormous benefits for everybody. There was a lot of cheap housing going up and generally speaking social welfare was very good at that time, and there was a general feeling of solidarity - people were friendly and not afraid of each other.