The Professor of Connection
Robert S. Boynton’s 1995 Profile of Stanley Crouch, the actor, poet, playwright, jazz drummer, professor, and essayist—and a rare figure in a narrowly specialized intellectual world.
On Stanley Crouch: "Grinning serenely, like an ebony Buddha, he lights a cigarette and blows the smoke nonchalantly past his thick tortoiseshell glasses; it drifts back over his enormous bald pate." The center of every room he enters.