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- 1. Grandpa Made Wine, Dad Got Bags of Cash
- Introduction. Take Off Your Shoes
- 1. An Era When Students’ Dates Were Published in the Paper – And the Faculty Kept Score
- 2. The “Small Genius” Generates Disciples . . . And Skeptics
- 3. The Risk-Taker with Lollipops on His Tree
- 4. In the Basic Sense a Longer
- 5. Faculty Wives
- 6. The Gadfly Makes Enemies
- 7. Dark Moods – And a Moderating Fellowship
- 8. Publish Or . . .
- 9. The Bowling Team . . . And a Call Home
- 1. First Encounters
- 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”
- 5. Classroom That Sold Hot-Cross Buns
- 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. The Idea—And Its Skeptics
- 2. Laboratory Rats
- 3. The Academic Fall
- 4. Getting There . . . Barely . . . And Getting Barely Dressed: The Underwear Story
- 5. Three Weeks in a Village
- 6. And Then There Were . . .
- 7. Uncomfortable Learning on Horseback, In the Ganges (With Corpses) and From Dogs (The Rabid Variety)
- 8. Swips
- 9. Breaking Through One Boundary
- 10. Completing the Paper—Or Not
- 11. Home To the Future
- 1. If This Is Not Going To Be Discussed . . . I Withdraw the Proposal
- 2. One Anarchist, Two Evangelicals
- 3. Are You Going to Live Down in the Swamps?
- 4. In Georgia: Stolen Clothes and ‘Naners
- 5. Jim Lands in the Pokey
- 6. More Lessons in Black and White
- 7. Neikirk Eyes a Girl, She Eyes His Soul
- 8. The Texas Pose
- 9. On to Appalachia, Food Stamps and Birthing a Calf
- 10. This Is Classic
- 11. In Iowa: Castrations and Ice Cream
- 12. Detroit: “Casper” On the Assembly Line
- 13. Why Not Just Enlist in the Army?
- 1. Getting – and Sharing – The News
- 2. The Mask and the Drool
- 3. The Singing Housepainter
- 4. The Amigo
- 5. Two Winter Studies
- 6. Prayers
- 7. Accept the Love
- 8. The Stool
- 9. Cyanide
- 10. The Bequest
- 11. Thanksgiving Day
- 12. The Rhodendron
- 1. The Political Scientist, the Business Prof and the Leadership Expert
- 2. Two Lawyers
- 3. The Organizer
- 4. The Murder Case
- 5. A Conversation Among the India Crowd
- 6. And On the Other Coast . . . Williams-In-India’s Wall Street Refuge and Listener on the Bench
- 7. The Nocturnal Council
- 8. And Their Classmate, the Diplomat-Businessman Still Dealing with Aristotle
- 9. Williams-At-Home’s Troublemaker, Anarchist, and Christian Duo
- 10. Williams-At-Home’s Novice Photographer
- 11. A School in China
- 12. The Writer
- 13. Why Aren’t There Foundations For . . .?
- 14. The Preacher
- 15. Delayed Tears
- 16. The Thanksgiving Day Crew of 1974
- 15. A Very Off-Broadway Play
- 16. Uncle Bob
- Chapter 1. EARLY LIFE: California Boy
- 2. Record-Keeper and Rascal: “My Cake!”
- 2. Certainty to Uncertainty
- Chapter 2. EARLY WILLIAMS YEARS: “Intellectual Man of Mystery”
- 3. $1 for Tuition, $350 for a Car
- 3. The Nocturnal Council
- Chapter 3. IN THE CLASSROOM: “Silence is Suspect”
- 4. That’s What You’re Fighting For
- 4. The Shocking 10 Ballots and Other Moments
- Chapter 4. ROLE ON CAMPUS: Gadfly Who Served Donuts
- 5. Triumph of the Cheerleaders
- 5. The Individual Student
- Chapter 5. WILLIAMS-IN-INDIA: Volunteer Lab Rats
- 6. A Good Voyage with Thinking People
- 6. What to Teach? Plato and “High Noon”
- Chapter 6. WILLIAMS-AT-HOME: Prayers and Pigs
- 7. “Joe College” In Sweden
- 7. A Hard Act to Follow
- Chapter 7. HE WAS GONE: The Illegal Rhodendron
- 8. The University of Chicago: Many Staussians PhDs, One Scaramouche
- 8. Yeah, He Was Kooky
- Chapter 8. LEGACY: Careers, Tears and a Dream
- 9. The Greatest Professor That They Ever Had
- 9. The Size of The Table
- Final Note. Project History, Methods, Acknowledgments