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ROLE ON CAMPUS
Gadfly Who Served Donuts

A Very Off-Broadway Play

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Gaudino had a play called the “The Assassin” which I did the technical theater work on, the sound and lights. Must have been my junior or senior year, well, I think it was about the assassination of JFK. And we performed it at, was it Griffin, that beautiful old building off of Route 2, because […]

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I was up in the summer or spring and they were doing a reading of it in 3 Griffin. Gordon Winston my longtime buddy was reading one of the parts. And it was a terrible play as a play. But I remember Gordon saying to me, “You know, after the first time I read it […]

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REPORTER: Outsiders will see things you don’t. MRS. CARTER: Things we don’t want to see. FOREIGNER: Of course you don’t. You won’t look at the conspiracy. COMMENTATOR: This was one man acting alone…a single man’s resentment. FOREIGNER: Impossible. There’s no political logic in that…Who are the leaders? What is their ideology? COMMENTATOR: Thought’s not a […]

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It didn’t get big audiences but it got people there and the audience was intermingled with the cast in a certain way. And there was a classroom discussion — the difference between assassination and murder actually. What elevated some murder to assassination? You know, what kind of social and/or political, and/or cultural significance did it […]

CHAPTERS

Introduction
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Final Note

Chapter 4: ROLE ON CAMPUS

  • 5. Classroom That Sold Hot-Cross Buns
  • 16. Uncle Bob
  • 6. Eats for the Barefoot Guests
  • 7. The Guru Issue Won’t Fade
  • 8. Alas, It’s No Way To Pick Up Girls
  • 9. “What To Do?” As More Than Words
  • 10. Black Students Take The Administration Building, Then a Meeting At His House
  • 11. A Colleague in the Arena
  • 12. Faculty Relations
  • 13. Tidbits for Inquiring Minds
  • 14. War, Riots, and Other Teachable Moments
  • 1. Prankster and Trail Guide, “Follow the Elephant”
  • 2. The Gadfly Who Asked, “If You Don’t Go, Who Will?”
  • 3. But Respect For the Rules
  • 4. Distance, Yes, But . . . “I Really Did”
  • 15. A Very Off-Broadway Play
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