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children rhyming combination
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
halloween blood black
His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.
ideas two drawing
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
matter groups draws
I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
education children school
In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
students professors feels
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
states experimentation
I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
ideas might generations
I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
army special chicago
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
loyalty years oath
I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
noses faces election
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
weekend evening chicago
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
problem difficult scientific-knowledge
The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.
race long obstacles
Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.