Great stories (here and here) courtesy of Robert Paul Wolff, then a recent Harvard PhD and junior faculty member there. And, unrelatedly, do see his comments on Obama's important change to U.S. nuclear policy, which is the best thing I've seen on the topic (the opening lines are priceless).
UPDATE: And also see these memories of Thompson Clarke, Stanley Cavell, and even David Souter. On Cavell and Rogers Albritton: "All of us looked forward with a slightly malicious anticipation to the moment when he and Rogers Albritton would first meet. They were equally brilliant, equally tortured and complicated, equally incapable of adopting or stating a philosophical position straight out, without doubling back on it, viewing it from an ironic distance, undercutting it, and then reaffirming it. But it was as though Rogers was Stanley turned inside out. The more Stanley expanded to fill all the available ego space, the more Rogers shrank into himself. It was a little as though Walt Whitman were to encounter Emily Dickinson."
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