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Ken replied, ''Oh, so in the interest of fairness and because some students couldn't be involved at all, then, nobody can be involved in more than one job? Okay, I'll agree to that. '' "They went crazy,' Ken said. "They told me, 'You're going to lose all your friends. " "I was told repeatedly I was being uncooperative; I'd never get through life unless I learned how to be fair, to try to get along along with people. Where was my school spirit? "They went on and on. I was called to the principal's office.
I'd go over and sit on her porch and talk with her. Here I was, a Jewish tot, talking about Catholicism and everything about Jesus Christ. ' One day she showed me a picture that she had cut out of a newspaper. ' "So in kindergarten I would only draw Jesus Christ. Sometimes some angels with Him. That's all I would do. "No matter what teachers would say to me, I would not draw anything else. There were times when the teacher would see me start to draw, and she'd pull the drawing paper away from me.
Then to come full circle and to be sitting with Yip Harburg, talking with him critically, was a connection that had been made. It was a good feeling, a feeling to be invited to do the critique of Yip's work. True, at first I felt inhibited. But once I got into it, he was no longer Yip Harburg who had written the lyrics to FINIAN'S RAINBOW. He was now just a human being in the business; we were having a discussion. I was impressed with the way he reacted to some of the things I had to say. It was an interesting exchange on a peer level.