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The Village

Page 70

by John Strausbaugh


  Prizzi’s Honor (movie), 448

  Progressive Labor Party, 131

  Progressive movement, 49, 75

  Prohibition, x, 49, 155–69, 209

  Prohibition Unit, 156, 158, 163–64, 167

  Promenade (play), 375

  Prophet, The (Gibran), 57

  Proust, Marcel, 32, 186, 192

  Provincetown, 109–10, 115

  Provincetown Players, 109–16, 187

  Provincetown Playhouse, 115, 239, 350–51, 357

  psychoanalysis, 59–60, 109

  Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Freud), 59

  Public Works Administration, 199

  Publishers Weekly, 448

  Puerto Rico, 47

  Pull My Daisy (movie), 309–16

  Pure Food and Drug Act, 90

  Purple Pup, 128

  Putnam’s Monthly, 33

  Putney Swope (movie), 500–501

  Pyat, Felix, 30, 31

  Quashie, Mike, 411–15

  Quill, The, 131–32

  Quinn, John, 143–44

  Quintero, José, 351

  Quinton, Everett, 532

  Rabe, David, 501

  Radicalesbians, 523

  Rado, James, 363

  Ragni, Gerome, 363, 370

  Rahv, Philip, 194–95, 196

  Rainbow Room, 203

  Rainer, Yvonne, 376

  Rake’s Progress, The (opera), 229

  Ramones, the, 534

  Randel Plan, 7–8

  Rape-In (play), 499

  Rauh, Ida, 109

  Rauschenberg, Robert, 265

  “Raven, The” (Poe), ix, 22–23

  Raven, The (Reed), 24

  Ray, Nicholas, 207

  Ray Gun Specs (happening), 373

  Reagan, Ronald, 537, 539

  Realist, 429

  Rechy, John, 334

  Recognitions, The (Gaddis), 297

  Recollections of a Part-Time Lady (Minette), 212, 362

  Record Changer, 273, 281

  Record Plant, 412–13, 495

  Red Channels, 377–78

  Red Cross (play), 375

  Red Decade, 191–99

  Redding, Noel, 413

  Redding, Otis, 529

  Red Scare, 117, 122, 204, 207, 222

  Reed, Bill, 401

  Reed, John “Jack,” 82, 90–91, 104, 105–6, 117–18, 120–23

  Reed, Lou, 24, 410–11

  Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (Eastman), 122

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke), 14–15

  Reich, Wilhelm, 200, 235

  Reilly, Charles Nelson, 343

  Reisner, Robert, 273–75

  Reminiscences of New York by an Octogenarian (Haswell), 7, 11, 16

  rent control, 216, 548

  Renwick, James, 341–42

  Replenishing Jessica (Bodenheim), 175

  Republic of Dreams (Wetzsteon), xiii

  “Respondez!” (Whitman), 34

  Rexroth, Kenneth, 191, 277, 303–4

  Reynal, Jeanne, 263

  Reynolds, Zachary, 207

  Rialto, the, 52

  Richard III (play), 66

  Richmond Hill, 12–13

  Richmond Hill Theatre, 13

  Richter, Hans, 236

  Ridiculous Theatrical Company, 514, 530–31, 531–32

  Rights of Man (Paine), 14–15

  RightWing Bob (Weberman), 490

  Riis, Jacob, 49, 67–70

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 186, 395, 491

  Ritter, Bruce, 426

  Ritual in Transfigured Time (film), 239

  Rivera, Diego, 251

  Rivera, Sylvia Rae, 469, 471–72, 474, 481–83

  Rivers, Larry, 247, 252–54, 400

  Artists Club and, 248

  background of, 252–53

  Coleman and Bernstein and, 277

  Hoffman and, 247

  Jones and, 283, 284

  Living Theatre and, 353–54

  O’Hara and, 258

  Pull My Daisy (movie), 311

  $64,000 Challenge ,The, 253–54

  Village bars, 249, 250

  Roach, Max, 280

  Robards, Jason, 250, 351

  Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 334

  Robbins, Jerome, 229

  Robbins, Terry, 439

  Robeson, Paul, 115, 207, 386

  Robinson, Boardman, 100

  Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 119–20

  Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (movie), 533–34

  Rodman, Henrietta, 80–81, 95–96

  Rodwell, Craig, 464, 478, 479

  Rolling Thunder Revue, 492

  Romany Marie Tavern, 128–30, 190, 202

  Romero, Johnny, 281

  Romero’s, 281–82, 302

  Ronson, Mick, 492

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 190, 340, 388, 419

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 122, 157, 169, 190, 198–99, 387

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 49, 58, 68–69, 89–90

  Rorem, Ned, 356

  Rose, Felipe, 517

  Rosenberg, Anton, 231, 296

  Rosenberg, Ethel, 170

  Rosset, Barney, 236, 239, 332–36, 428, 514

  Rotello, Gabriel, 514, 540

  Roth, Manny, 326, 379

  Roth, Philip, 179, 422

  Rothstein, Arnold, 210

  Rotolo, Suze, 377, 389–91, 394–97, 524, 546

  Roundtree, Richard, 413

  Rourke, Mickey, 233

  Royal Roost, 280, 359–60

  Rubin, Jerry, 450, 456, 494

  Rudd, Mark, 436–37

  runaways, 426, 465–66

  Ruskin, Mickey, 518–19

  Russek, Frank, 497–98

  Russeks Furs, 497–98

  Russell, Ken, 522

  Russell, Rosalind, 73

  Russell, Vickie, 294–95

  Russian Revolution, 117, 120–24

  Russwurm, John Brown, 70

  Rustin, Bayard, 279

  Ryder (Barnes), 150–51

  Sacco, Nicola, 180, 446

  Sage on Seventh Avenue, 280

  Sahl, Mort, 205, 419, 422

  St. Anthony’s Feast Day, 61–63

  St. Benedict the Moor Church, 70

  St. Bernard’s Church, 64

  Saint Joan (play), 108

  St. Joseph’s Church, 64

  St. Luke’s Place

  no. 6, 165

  no. 14, 179

  St. Mark’s Baths, 468, 542

  St. Veronica’s Church, 64

  St. Vincent Millay, Edna, 111–12, 116, 151–52, 161, 180–81, 182, 390

  St. Vincent Millay, Kathleen, 111, 112

  St. Vincent Millay, Norma, 111, 112

  St. Vincent’s Hospital, 111, 541, 552

  Salerno, Tony, 464–65

  Salvation, 413–15

  Sandburg, Carl, 98, 100

  Sanders, Ed, 334, 408–10

  SANE, 395

  San Francisco Film Festival, 313–14

  Sanger, Margaret, 87–88, 93, 131

  Sanger, William, 87–88

  San Juan Hill, 72

  San Remo, 295–96, 357

  Santamaría, Mongo, 287

  Sapponckanican, 4

  Sarandon, Chris, 511

  Saroyan, William, 129

  Sarris, Andrew, 331

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 315, 350, 360

  Satan’s Bed (movie), 493

  Saturday Evening Post, 133–34

  Saturday Press, 36, 37, 38, 42

  Sayings of Mao Tse-tung (play), 375–76

  Scènes de la vie de Bohème (play), 31

  Schermerhorn, Peter, 70

  Schnabel, Julian, 548

  Schneemann, Carolee, 376

  Schoenberg, Arnold, 262

  School for Gargoyles, 363

  Schuyler, James, 248, 256–58

  Schwartz, Delmore, 194–97, 228–29, 232–34, 410, 435, 498

  Schwartz, Harry, 195

  Screw, 479

  SCUM Manifesto, 427–28, 431, 479,
523

  Seaver, Richard, 335

  Sebastian, John, 404

  Second Avenue (O’Hara), 400

  Sedgwick, Edie, 405–7

  Sedition Act, 121, 123

  Seeger, Charles, 194

  Seeger, Mike, 194, 388, 392

  Seeger, Pete, 194, 329, 377–78, 388, 392, 399, 403, 524

  Segal, George, 236

  Selby, Hubert, 334

  self-expression, 80

  Semi-Colon, 256

  Sendak, Maurice, 242

  settlement houses, 49

  Seven Arts, 100

  Seventh Avenue, 13, 132–33, 201–2, 324, 344

  Seventh Seal, The (movie), 331

  Sex and the City (TV show), 549–50

  Seyrig, Delphine, 311–12

  Shadows (movie), 282, 309–10, 324

  Shakur, Doc, 441

  Shame of the Cities, The (Steffens), 85

  Shaw, Elizabeth, 12

  Shaw, George Bernard, 108, 169, 365

  Shelton, Robert, 394

  Shenandoah (Schwartz), 196

  Shepard, Sam, 358, 365, 371, 375, 492

  Shepherd, Jean, 319, 321–27, 330–31, 399, 400, 419

  Shepp, Archie, 287

  Sheridan Square, 202, 206, 455

  no. 1, 206, 390, 395, 413–14, 531

  Sheridan Square Playhouse, 395, 527

  Shindig! (TV show), 399

  Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua, 61–63

  Sickles, Daniel, 84

  Siegel, Eli, 202–3

  Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, The (play), 346

  Silence (Cage), 263

  Silverstein, Shel, 321

  Simkhovitch, Mary Kingsbury, 72, 189

  Simon, Carly, 480

  Simon, Paul, 404

  Sims, Zoot, 287

  Sinclair, John, 494–95

  Sinclair, Upton, 89–90, 100, 119, 142

  Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 251

  Sirhan, Sirhan, 430–31

  Sister Carrie (Dreiser), 89

  Six Gallery, 300, 303

  Six Red Months in Russia (Bryant), 121

  “Sixteen Tons” (song), 378

  Sixth Avenue, 18, 25–26, 56, 72, 133, 481

  Sixth Avenue Elevated, 56, 133, 203

  Sixth Precinct, 68–69, 470–71, 473–74

  $64,000 Challenge, The (TV show), 236, 253–54

  Skinner, William, 11

  Skinner Road, 11

  Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (movie), 221

  Slave, The (play), 282, 283

  slavery (slaves), ix, 4–6, 32, 65–66, 67

  Sleepy Hollow, 16

  Slide, The, 54, 69

  Sliwa, Curtis, 486

  Sloan, John, 98, 105, 129, 139–40, 159, 190

  smallpox, 16

  Smith, Al, 165, 166

  Smith, David, 276

  Smith, Harry, 387–88, 492

  Smith, Howard, 306, 455–56, 474–76, 478

  Smith, Jack, 530

  Smith, Martin Cruz, 449

  Smith, Michael, 350, 370

  Smith, Patti, 491–92, 513

  Snake Pit, 170, 473

  Snyder, Gary, 300, 401

  socialism, 48, 49, 89–90, 121–22

  Socialist Club, 119

  Socialist Party of America (SPA), 92

  Société Anonyme, 103

  Society for the Prevention of Crime, 54

  Society of Independent Artists, 103

  Soho, xiii, 425

  Solanas, Valerie, 170, 233, 426–31

  Solomon, Carl, 295, 299

  Solomon, Deborah, 249

  Solomon, Ella, 417, 420–22

  Solomon, Howard, 417, 420–22

  Some Time in New York City (album), 495

  “Song of Myself” (Whitman), 40, 43

  Songs of the People, 194

  Sorrentino, Gilbert, 401

  Southern Literary Review, 22

  South Pacific (musical), 367

  Soviet Union, 181, 191–94, 197, 457, 500

  speakeasies, 159–64, 167, 201

  Spector, Phil, 529

  Stage Blood (play), 531

  Stalin, Joseph, 122, 181, 191, 193, 194

  Stamos, Theodoros, 243

  Stampfel, Peter, 405

  Standard Oil, 119–20

  Stansell, Christine, 35, 37, 39, 59, 80–81

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 156

  STAR House, 482–83

  Stark, Ray, 313

  State Liquor Authority (SLA), 210–11

  States of Desire (White), 366, 513

  Stayin’ Alive (Berkowitz), 515–16

  Stearns, Marshall, 273

  Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 129

  Steffens, Lincoln, 85, 86, 94, 119, 124

  Steichen, Edward, 325, 326

  Steiger, Rod, 279

  Stein, Gertrude, 83, 102, 140, 150, 152, 192, 352–53

  Stein, Leo, 83, 102

  Steinbeck, John, 198

  Steinem, Gloria, 450

  Stella, Joseph, 130

  Stephens, Henry Louis, 42–43

  Stephens, Louis Henry, 42–43

  Stephens, William Allen, 42–43

  Stern, Howard, 261

  Sterne, Maurice, 118–19

  Stevens, Wallace, 147

  Stevenson, Adlai, 344–45

  Stewart, Ellen, 365, 368, 370

  Stewart’s Cafeteria, 202

  Stieglitz, Alfred, 102

  Stiller, Jerry, 351

  Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 266

  Stock Market Crash of 1929, 169, 189

  Stoker, Bram, 45

  Stone, I. F., 438

  Stonewall (Carter), 211, 464–65, 471, 476

  Stone Wall, The (Casal), 464

  Stonewall Inn, 464–65, 470

  “Stonewall lesbian,” 475

  Stonewall Uprising, 211, 455–57, 473–83, 512

  prelude to, 457–72

  Stoppard, Tom, 334

  Strand Hotel, 517

  Strange Interlude (play), 108

  Strange Victory (documentary), 332

  Stravinsky, Igor, 229

  Street Transvestite Activist Revolutionaries, 482–83

  Streisand, Barbra, 206, 313, 464

  Strike It Rich (TV show), 256

  Strindberg, August, 108

  Stritch, Elaine, 279

  Strong, George Templeton, 34

  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 436–37

  Sturgeon, Theodore, 323

  Stuyvesant, Peter, 3, 5

  Stuyvesant Institute, 33

  Subterraneans, The (Kerouac), 231, 282, 291, 295, 301, 306–7

  Subterraneans, The (movie), 291

  subway, 132–33

  Sukenick, Ronald, vii, 205, 246, 281, 296

  Sullivan, Ed, 385, 411

  Sullivan Street, 62, 214, 407

  no. 188, 186

  no. 208, 214

  St. Anthony’s Feast Day, 61–64

  Sullivan Street Playhouse, 351–52

  Sulzer, William “Plain Bill,” 84

  Summer, John, 100

  Summer and Smoke (play), 351

  Summer Knowledge (Schwartz), 233–34

  Sunday (documentary), 383–84

  Suppressed Desires (play), 109

  Supreme Court, 335

  Sutton, Willie, 173

  Swados, Elizabeth, 78

  swag, 223–24, 465

  Synge, John Millington, 108

  Tabb, George, 532–34

  Take 3, 287, 314

  Tallmer, Jerry, 327–28, 331

  Tamawa Club, 344, 345

  Tamerlane and Other Poems (Poe), 21

  Tammany Hall, 48, 52, 55, 165–67, 344, 348

  Tanguy, Yves, 200

  Taos, New Mexico, 118–19

  Tarbell, Ida, 95

  Tavel, Ronald, 530–31

  Taverne Alsacienne, 56

  Taylor, Cecil, 284

  Taylor, James, 524

  “tearooms,” 470

  telegraph, 33

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nbsp; temperance, 156

  Ten Days That Shook the World (Reed), 121

  Tenderloin, 72

  Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 198, 199

  “Tennessee Waltz” (song), 378

  Tenth Avenue, 517

  Tenth Street, East, 247

  Tenth Street, West, 11, 180

  no. 58 1/2, 57

  no. 130, 194

  no. 250, 507–8

  Tenth Street Studio, 56–57, 268, 343

  Termini, Ignatius, 276

  Termini, Joe, 276

  Terrible Angel (McEvoy), 445

  Terry, Sonny, 193, 194

  Thayer and Eldridge, 42

  Theatre de Lys, 325, 351, 395

  Theatre Guild, 108, 116, 187

  Thirteenth Street, West, 55, 122, 268–69, 447

  13th Street Theatre, 320

  This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 181

  Thomas, Dylan, 232, 235–36, 252, 391, 445

  Thompson, Frank, 360, 364

  Thoreau, Henry, 41

  Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Freud), 59

  Three from the Earth (play), 114–15

  Threepenny Opera, The (musical), 329, 351

  Threepenny Productions, 531

  Three Tall Women (play), 358

  Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 255–56

  Tice, Clara, 126–27

  Tierney, Lawrence, 356

  Tiffany Diner, 533

  Tile Club, 57

  Time (magazine), 249, 251, 266, 304, 344, 421, 552

  Times Square, 211–12, 420, 547

  Times They Are a-Changin’, The (album), 399–400

  Tishman & Wolfe, 340–41

  Toilet, the, 517, 519

  Toilet, The (play), 283

  Toklas, Alice B., 83

  Tolkien, J. R. R., 229

  Tomc, Sandra, 21–22, 23

  Tomlin, Lily, 375

  Tom Paine (play), 368

  Tonight Show (TV show), 204, 409

  Tony Pastor’s Downtown, 212–13, 329

  Too Much Too Soon (album), 505

  Torch Song Trilogy (play), 532

  Torn, Rip, 503

  Torre, Jon, 372

  To Smithereens (Drexler), 375

  Totem Press/Corinth Books, 400–401, 402

  To the Finland Station (Wilson), 183

  Touchette, Joseph “Tish,” 457–59

  Town and the City, The (Kerouac), 166, 298, 299

  “trade,” 43

  transvestites, 53–54

  Travers, Mary, 393. See also Peter, Paul and Mary

  Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, x, 74–78

  Trilby (Maurier), 49

  Trinity Church, 10

  Trinity Church Farm, 10, 12

  Tropic of Cancer (Miller), 332, 334–35

  Trotsky, Leon, 192, 197, 245, 435

  Trump, Donald, 537

  Truscott, Lucian K., IV, 211, 455–57, 475–78, 490–92, 553

  Tucker, Maureen “Moe,” 410–11

  Tunney, Gene, xi, 167–69

  Twain, Mark, 36, 48, 341–42

  Twelfth Street, West. See West Twelfth Street

  Twenties, The (Wilson), 182

  Twenty-One (TV show), 253–54

  291 Art Gallery, 102

  Tynan, Kenneth, 417, 419

  Typewriter Is Holy, The (Morgan), 292

  Ubu Roi (play), 353

  Ulysses (Joyce), 143, 144, 268

 

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