by Mardy Grothe
Brown, Jerry, 261
Brown, John Mason, 83, 106, 240
Brown, Norman O., 115
Brown, Rita Mae, 165, 206, 239
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 28
Browning, Robert, 28
Broyard, Anatole, 165
Bruno, Frank, 281
Bryan, Henry F., 242
Bryan, William Jennings, 96
Bryant, William Cullen, 2, 45, 56
Bryson, Bill, 282
Buck, Pearl S., 28
Buffett, Jimmy, 124
Bugner, Joe, 282
Bukowski, Charles, 206
Bullock, Sandra, 215
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 28
Burbank, Luther, 109
Burchill, Julie, 144
Burgess, Gelett, 165
Burke, Edmund, 262, 300
Burnett, Carol, 193, 230
Burns, George, 206, 249
Burns, Ken, 83
Burns, Robert, 312
Burroughs, John, 299
Buscaglia, Leo, 144
Bush, George H. W., 89, 90, 93, 98
Bush, George W., 90, 95, 98, 264, 267–68, 276
Butler, Brett, 206
Butler, R. A. “Rab,” 68
Butler, Samuel, 12, 46, 102, 125, 144, 223, 226
Buxton, Charles, 29
Byrne, Robert, 77
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 106, 142, 161, 184
Cadwell, Lucy Lee, 171
Caen, Herb, 68
Caine, Michael, 242
Campbell, Joseph (American mythologist), 29, 109, 125
Campbell, Joseph (Irish poet), 226
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 99
Campbell, Patrick, 282
Campbell, Roy, 300
Camus, Albert, 22–23, 24–25, 105, 126, 300
Canady, John, 83
Capone, Al, 5
Capote, Truman, 69, 91, 98, 108, 125, 245, 300
Capra, Frank, 110
Cardin, Pierre, 108
Carey, Peter, 144
Carlyle, Thomas, 29
Caron, Leslie, 145
Carson, Johnny, 185
Carson, Rachel, 46
Carter, James Earl, Jr., 91, 96
Casanova, Giacomo, 125, 184
Cash, Pat, 282
Cassavetes, John, 86
Cather, Willa, 144, 226
Cecil, David, Lord, 67
Cendrars, Blaise, 300
Cervantes, Miguel de, 46, 161
Chamfort, Nicolas, 46, 144, 159, 165–66
Chandler, Raymond, 47, 72
Chaplin, Charles, 125
Charles, Prince of Wales, 83
Chase, Alexander, 242
Cheever, John, 282
Chekhov, Anton, 11, 297
Cheney, Richard “Dick,” 5, 267–68, 276
Chesterfield, Lord, (Philip Dormer Stanhope), 29, 226
Chesterton, G. K., 104, 106, 152, 188, 261
Child, Julia, 125
Cho, Margaret, 69
Chopin, Kate, 47
Christie, Agatha, 184
Churchill, Winston, 19, 31, 47, 69, 86, 89, 261–62, 267, 291
Chute, B. J., 300
Ciasno, Galeazzo, 266
Cicero, 142, 226
Clark, Frank A., 188
Clarke, Creston, 82
Clausewitz, Karl von, 262
Clay, Henry, 79, 94, 218
Cleopatra, 70
Clinton, William, 41, 259
Cocks, Barnett, 1
Cocteau, Jean, 227, 243, 301
Cohen, Leonard, 145
Cohn, Harry, 90
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 262
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 47, 142
Colet, Louise, 303
Colette, 145, 155
Collins, Churton, 97
Collins, Joan, 211
Colton, Charles Caleb, 145, 166, 181–82, 227, 262
Columbus, Christopher, 24
Comfort, Alex, 206–7
Confucius, 110
Congreve, William, 145, 181
Connery, Sean, 249
Connolly, Cyril, 47, 112, 115, 125, 145
Connors, Jimmy, 282, 284
Cooke, Alistair, 243
Cooley, Mason, 7, 166, 217, 312
Coolidge, Calvin, 92
Cooper, Jilly, 146
Copland, Aaron, 86, 243
Corelli, Marie, 185
Corey, Professor Irwin, 188
Corneille, Pierre, 175
Cort, David, 207
Cosell, Howard, 283
Cossman, E. Joseph, 166
Couric, Katie, 39
Cousins, Norman, 44, 63, 65
Covey, Steven R., 146
Coward, Noël, 64, 304
Cowley, Abraham, 126
Cowley, Malcolm, 301
Cowper, William, 47
Cox, Marcelene, 188
Craig, Walter, 85
Crawford, Joan, 86, 162
Crisp, Quentin, 86, 87, 108, 146, 207, 301
Cruise, Tom, 95
Cumberland, Richard, 29
Cuomo, Mario, 262–63
Dahlberg, John (Lord Acton), 259
Dahmer, Jeffrey, 286
Daly, Arnold, 283
Daly, Tyne, 246
Dangerfield, Rodney, 207
Dante Alighieri, 161
Darrow, Clarence, 30
Daugherty, Hugh “Duffy,” 283
Davies, John, 181
Davies, Robertson, 301
Davis, Bette, 166, 207, 243, 244
Dayan, Moshe, 109
de Beauvoir, Simone, 207, 227, 229
de Bernieres, Louis, 157
Deighton, Len, 263
Dekker, Thomas, 227
Delacroix, Eugène, 48
Demaret, Jimmy, 283
Democritus, 215
Dennis, Patrick, 130
de Unamuno, Miguel, 172
Deutsch, Adolph, 243
De Vries, Peter, 5, 126, 189, 207
Dewar, Thomas, 166
Dewey, Thomas, 90, 91–92
Dickens, Charles, 294
Dickinson, Emily, 103
Didion, Joan, 189
Dietrich, Marlene, 147, 208, 244
Dietz, Howard, 87
Diller, Phyllis, 70, 189, 208
Dinesen, Isak, 48
Diogenes, 30, 31
Diogenes Laertius, 142
Disraeli, Benjamin, 111, 147, 272, 301
D’Israeli, Isaac, 147
Doctorow, E. L., 302
Dodson, Fitzhugh, 30
Donahue, Phil, 230
Donne, John, 27, 290
Douglas, Kirk, 237, 238
Douglas, Norman, 302
Draco, 256
Dreiser, Theodore, 113
Drucker, Peter, 48
Dryden, John, 92
Duffy, Maureen, 166
Dulles, John Foster, 86
Dumas, Alexandre, fils, 189
Dumas, Alexandre, père, 189
Duncan, Isadora, 147
Dunn, Irina, 141
Dunne, John Gregory, 302
Dyson, Brian, 121
Edison, Thomas Alva, 112
Edwards, Harry, 278
Einstein, Albert, 30, 42–43, 83, 118, 126, 241, 250, 263
Einstein, Mileva, 42
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 263
Eklund, Britt, 208
Eliot, George, 48, 87, 156, 227, 263–64
Ellis, Havelock, 30, 143, 208
Ellison, Harlan, 166–67
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 22, 23, 24, 30, 42, 48, 80, 100–101, 104, 109, 110, 112, 115, 126, 167, 221
Empson, William, 312
Ephron, Nora, 70, 87
Epictetus, 40
Esar, Evan, 127
Ettinger, Bob, 147
Fadiman, Clifton, 103, 104, 127
Federer, Roger, 287–88
Fellini, Federico, 228
Fenwick, Millicent, 30
Ferber, Edna, 310
Feynman, Richard P., 204
Field, Eugen
e, 82
Fields, W. C., 70, 244
Finck, Henry Theophilus, 111
Fisher, Eddie, 91
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 228, 292, 293, 302
Flatman, Thomas, 222
Flaubert, Gustave, 167, 302, 303, 304, 312
Fleming, Ian, 208
Fleming, Peggy, 283
Fletcher, Phineas, 167
Flynn, Errol, 249
Fonda, Jane, 148
Fontaine, Joan, 208
Forbes, B. C., 31
Ford, Ford Madox, 86
Ford, Gerald, 87, 96, 264
Forster, E. M., 167
Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 31, 120
Foster, George, 284
Fowler, Gene, 307, 312
Fox, Henry, 307
Foxworthy, Jeff, 208
France, Anatole, 303
Francis, Brendan, 264
Francis de Sales, Saint, 146
Franco, Catherine, 148, 209
Franklin, Benjamin, 26, 45, 127, 148, 209, 219–20, 255, 256
Frazier, Joe, 282, 284
French, Marilyn, 159
Freud, Sigmund, 31, 88
Friday, Nancy, 209
Friedenberg, Edgar Z., 147
Friedman, Robert, 167
Fripp, Robert, 112
Fromm, Erich, 167
Frost, Robert, 11, 23, 109, 190, 296
Frye, David, 87
Frye, Northrop, 303
Fuller, Margaret, 31
Fuller, R. Buckminster, 58
Fuller, Thomas, 31
Gable, Clark, 89, 249
Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 190
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 264, 273
Garbo, Greta, 107
Gardner, John W., 121–22
Garfield, James A., 228
Garland, Judy, 96
Garner, James, 194
Garner, John Nance, 267
Garrick, David, 88
Gaulle, Charles de, 99, 263
Gauthier, Théophile, 106, 312
Geisel, Theodore (Dr. Seuss), 229
George, Henry, 49
Gephard, Paul H., 209
Gibbon, Edward, 229
Gibran, Kahlil, 23, 49, 103, 108, 116, 127, 148, 167–68, 190, 231
Gide, André, 31, 115
Gifford, Frank, 278–79
Gilbert, W. S., 87–88
Gilliatt, Penelope, 244
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 127
Gingrich, Newton Leroy “Newt,” 71
Ginott, Haim, 190
Giovanni, Nikki, 168
Gipp, George “the Gipper,” 275
Giraudoux, Jean, 108, 148
Gladstone, William E., 49
Glasgow, Arnold H., 62, 70, 127
Gleason, Jackie, 244
Gleiberman, Owen, 88
Glyn, Elinor, 147
Godard, Jean-Luc, 244
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 32, 53, 102, 128, 202, 265
Golding, William, 117–18, 229
Goldsmith, Oliver, 88, 128
Goldwater, Barry, 88
Goldwyn, Samuel, 245
Gonzales, Alberto, 260–61
Gore, Albert Arnold, Jr. “Al,” 261
Gorky, Maxim, 113, 190, 297
Grant, Cary, 209, 245
Graves, Robert, 303
Gray, Madeline, 210
Green, Michael, 284
Greene, Graham, 206, 229, 302
Greenspan, Alan, 261
Greenstreet, Sydney, 249
Greer, Germaine, 88, 210, 216, 273
Griffith-Joyner, Florence, 284
Grizzard, Lewis, 128
Groening, Matt, 168
Guedalla, Philip, 303
Guisewite, Cathy, 70
Haardt, Sara, 194
Hadrian, 40
Haig, Douglas, Earl, 89
Haley, Alex, 301
Half, Robert, 113
Hall, Joseph, 49
Hamill, Mark, 245
Hamilton, Alexander, 254
Hampton, Christopher, 210
Hand, Learned, 128
Harper, Frances E. W., 145
Harrison, Rex, 245
Hartley, L. P., 112
Harwell, Ernie, 290
Haskell, Mary, 168
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 32, 148, 210, 300
Hayes, Helen, 184, 190
Hazlitt, William, 64
Healy, Denis, 89
Hefner, Hugh, 210
Heine, Heinrich, 190, 191
Heinlein, Robert A., 191
Hemingway, Ernest, 284, 293, 304
Henri, Adrian, 168
Hepburn, Audrey, 98, 245
Hepburn, Katharine, 85, 119, 148, 168
Herbert, Alan P., 191
Herbert, Frank, 265
Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 36
Heston, Charlton, 246
Hewson, John, 90
Higgins, George V., 265
Hightower, Jim, 89, 258
Hill, Benny, 70
Hill, Graham, 279
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 60, 61
Hirsch, Mary, 70
Hitchcock, Alfred, 149, 246
Hitler, Adolf, 247
Hobbes, John Oliver, 49
Hobbes, Thomas, 229
Hockney, David, 67
Hoffman, Dustin, 246
Holiday, Billie, 69
Holmes, Larry, 284, 289
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 81–82, 121, 229
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 32, 42, 62, 149, 168, 191, 229, 304, 313
Horne, George, 29
Horney, Karen, 129
Howard, Marion, 129
Howe, Geoffrey, Sir, 89
Hubbard, Elbert, 191, 230, 284
Hughes, Howard, 89
Hughes, Langston, 129
Hughes, Robert, 89
Hugo, Victor, 32, 49, 93, 109, 110, 111, 113, 115, 169
Hume, David, 50
Humphrey, Hubert H., 88
Hurston, Zora Neale, 32, 50, 169
Huston, John, 89, 246–47
Huxley, Aldous, 180, 240, 268
Huxley, Thomas H., 50
Ickes, Harold L., 89–90
Imus, Don, 65
Inge, W. R., 8, 47, 230, 264
Ingersoll, Robert G., 105, 169
Inglis, Bob, 260
Irons, Jeremy, 237
Irving, Washington, 32, 50
Isaacs, Susan, 304
Ivins, Molly, 70–71, 90, 264
Jackson, Andrew, 85, 218
James, Clive, 82, 90, 279, 284
James, William, 51, 129, 293, 304
Jefferson, Thomas, 33, 110, 254, 265
Jeni, Richard, 71
Jerome, Jerome K., 169
Jerrold, Douglas, 169, 191
Jessel, George, 71
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 114
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 5
Johnson, Nunnally, 83
Johnson, Samuel, 51, 129
Johnson, Spencer, 108
Johnston, Lynn, 105
Johnston, Sheila, 90
John XXIII, 235
Jones, Bobby, 285
Jong, Erica, 51, 170, 192, 223
Jonson, Ben, 97, 180, 188, 265–66
Joubert, Joseph, 51, 110
Julius Caesar, 209
Jung, Carl, 33, 51, 149, 230, 247
Kafka, Franz, 18, 25
Kaiser, Henry J., 112
Kanfer, Stefan, 105, 113
Kasdan, Lawrence, 305
Kaye, Danny, 130
Kazan, Elia, 90
Keate, J. Stuart, 71
Keating, Paul, 90
Keaton, Diane, 140
Keats, John, 130, 149, 305
Keillor, Garrison, 83, 91
Kempton, Sally, 150
Kennedy, Florynce, 51, 140–41
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 21, 94, 122, 266, 276
Kerr, Jean, 71, 192
Kessler, Merle, 285
Key, Ellen, 192
Kierkegaard, Søren, 51, 52, 105, 168
Kightlinger
, Laura, 149
Kilpatrick, James J., 17
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 21, 103, 114
King, Stephen, 15, 170
Kingsolver, Barbara, 192
Kingston, Maxine Hong, 192
Kingston, Miles, 302
Kinsey, Alfred, 83
Kipling, Rudyard, 25
Kissinger, Henry, 149–50, 206, 266
Klee, Paul, 111
Knight, Bobby, 286
Knox, Ronald, 270
Koestler, Arthur, 2, 52, 114, 230, 305
Korman, Harvey, 6
Krantz, Judith, 90
Kraus, Karl, 210
Krauthammer, Charles, 266
Kronenberger, Louis, 130–31
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, 52
Kubrick, Stanley, 74
Kushner, Harold S., 131
Kutcher, Ashton, 98
Ladman, Cathy, 193
Laing, R. D., 126
Lamour, Dorothy, 247
L’Amour, Louis, 33, 305
Lanchester, Elsa, 91
Landers, Ann, 54, 193
Lang, Andrew, 289
Langland, William, 12
Lardner, Ring, 72
La Rocque, Paula, 16
Lauer, Matt, 39
Lavatar, Johann Kaspar, 105
Lawrence, D. H., 150, 211
Lawrence, Gertrude, 223–24
Lawrence, Jerome, 130
Lawrenson, Helen, 211
Layton, Irving, 170
Leahy, Frank, 108
Lebowitz, Fran, 72, 159, 305
Lec, Stanislaw, 52, 72
le Carré, John, 239
Le Corbusier, 110
Lederer, Richard, 10
Lee, Bruce, 171
Lee, Robert E., 130
Le Guin, Ursula K., 171
Lehrer, Tom, 131
Leifer, Carol, 72, 211
Leigh, Vivien, 253
Lenclos, Ninon de, 166, 227
Lennon, John, 171
Lerner, Harriet, 195
Levenstein, Aaron, 67
Levinson, Barry, 272
Lewis, C. S., 52, 171
Libby, I. Lewis “Scooter,” 267–68
Liberace, 94
Lichtenberg, G. C., 230
Limbaugh, Rush, 70
Lincoln, Abraham, 236
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 52, 150, 231
Lipman, Maureen, 75
Liston, Sonny, 285
Little, Rich, 91
Liu, Lucy, 247
Livingston, Edward, 94
Lloyd George, David, 267
Lloyd George, Gwilym, 267
Lodge, David, 72
London, Jack, 33
Long, Huey P., 89
Long, Russell B., 255
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 34, 53, 172, 231, 297
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 91, 92, 193
Loos, Anita, 248
Lorre, Peter, 248
Louis, Joe, 284
Lowell, James Russell, 34, 106, 232
Lucas, F. L., 13
Luce, Clare Booth, 84, 106, 193, 211
Luciano, Ron, 285
Lyly, John, 172
Mabley, Jackie “Moms,” 172
MacArthur, Charles, 184
MacArthur, Douglas, 60, 228
Macaulay, Rose, 150
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 53, 92, 96, 241
McCain, John, 92
