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The Sixties

Page 111

by Christopher Isherwood


  Miller, Valentine (Henry Miller’s daughter) 129

  Mineo, Sal 541, 559

  Minnelli, Denise 523

  Minnelli, Liza xxxiv

  Minton, John 83

  Miró, Joan 255, 263

  Miron, Stanley (pseud.) 140, 170, 220, 245, 271, 275, 488

  Mishima, Yukio 24, 675

  “Mr. Lancaster” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit) 33, 37, 61, 63, 64, 537

  Mr. Norris Changes Trains (C.I.) 85

  Mitchell Boys Choir 251

  Moffat, Ivan: friendship and socializing with C.I. 4, 176–7, 450; and Iris Tree 29, 79, 87; New Year’s Eve (1960) 37, 39; and C.I.’s film script writing 45; at C.I.’s party for Jo Masselink 55; marriage to Kate Smith 79, 87, 169, 184; and Glenn Ford and Hope Lange 139; enthusiasm for C.I.’s Down There on a Visit 160; Don Bachardy’s portrait of 177; political views 177; at Alan Pakula’s party 184; Cecil Beaton’s view on career 272; prose poem about return to America after war 450; recommends K.H.3 tablets 531, 532; 675

  Moffat, Katharine see Smith, Katharine

  Moffitt, John 326

  Moffitt, Peggy (Mrs. Bill Claxton) 222, 619–20

  Mohan, Mathur 317

  Molière 550

  Mondrian, Piet 379

  Monkhouse, Allan, First Blood 88

  Monroe, Marilyn 29; death 212, 213

  Monsour, Amelia see Pagli

  Montecito, California: Sarada Convent 24n, 26, 256, 278, 343, 696; Paul Wonner and Bill Brown’s house 565

  Monument Valley 224, 355

  Moody, Robert 120, 675–6

  moon landing (1969) 569, 570, 577

  Moore, Dudley 65n

  Moore, Frank 19

  Moore, George: Avowals 96, 98, 100–101; Memoirs of My Dead Life 403; A Mummer’s Wife 470; The Untilled Field 81, 87

  Moore, Ursula (pseud.; UCLA student) 364

  Moorea, Polynesia 570, 574, 575

  Moorehead, Alan 589

  Moreau, Jeanne 452–3, 579, 591, 676

  Morehead, Jeff 395

  Morley, Robert 204–5

  Mormons 200

  Morris, Phyllis 74, 676

  Morris, William, Daughter of Silence 148

  Morrow, Barbara 192, 201, 203, 676–7

  Morrow, Vic 197, 201, 212–13, 676–7

  Mortimer, John 224

  Mortimer, Raymond 76, 677

  Mortmere (imaginary village) 84, 89n, 448–9, 677

  Mount Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles 482, 500, 542

  Moving Target, The (film) 371

  Moynihan, Diana 115

  Muggeridge, Malcolm 77–8

  Mukherjee, P.B. 312

  Munich 408, 412

  Munich crisis (1938) vii–viii, 9, 105, 106

  Murdoch, Iris, An Unofficial Rose 172, 196, 197

  Murdock, James 374, 677

  Murphy, Franklin 483

  Murphy, George 350

  Murray, Alec 115

  Murray, Don 40

  Mutiny on the Bounty (film) 136

  My Fair Lady (film) 344, 398

  My Guru and His Disciple (C.I.) xxxiii, 48n

  Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita 200

  Nadelman, Elie 352

  Nairn, Ian 464

  Narada 581, 595, 596, 597, 598

  Narendrapur, West Bengal 319–20

  NASA 213n, 221

  National Institute of Arts and Letters 155, 512n, 515–16, 677

  National Portrait Gallery, London 548, 549, 552, 565, 677

  Nava, Julian 455

  Naylor, Richard 191–2

  Ned Kelly (film) xxxv–xxxvi, 532, 561, 572, 585–9

  Neddermeyer, Christian 73, 78, 677–8

  Neddermeyer, Gerda 73, 78, 80, 81, 83, 677–8

  Neddermeyer, Heinz xxxiii, 73, 76, 78, 80, 81, 83, 116n, 677–8

  Needles, California 157

  Nehru, Jawaharlal 135–7, 236–7

  Nelson, Allyn 558, 678

  Nero, Franco 434, 435

  Nesbitt, Cathleen 204

  New Republic (magazine) 171

  New Statesman (magazine) 85, 95, 171

  New York: C.I. joins Don Bachardy in: (1961) xiv, 145–57; (1963) 334; (1965) 351–3; Bachardy visits alone: (1960) 14, 16; (1961) 44; (1962) 201, 202, 204, 205, 206, 207; (1963-4) 299, 334, 335, 343, 344, 347, 348–9; (1965) 350, 360, 365-6, 368, 370, 388, 390, 391, 392, 393; (1967) 464–5, 467, 472–3

  New York City Ballet 346, 347, 349, 351–2, 366

  New York Herald Tribune 170, 171

  New York Times, The 152, 171, 230, 424, 564

  New Yorker, The (magazine) 298

  New Zealand 571, 582–4

  Newbolt, Henry 124

  Newman, Nanette (Forbes) 120, 121

  Newman, Paul 149

  Newsweek (magazine) 183, 287

  Nichols, Larry 444

  Nichols, Mike 437, 678

  Nicolson, Harold 443

  Niem, Jan (Tony Richardson’s chauffeur) 83, 341, 678

  Nietzsche, Friedrich 404

  Night of the Iguana, The (film) 200, 201, 216

  Night People (film) 482

  Nikhilananda, Swami 304–5, 307, 308, 311, 312, 315, 320–21, 326–7, 330, 333, 678–9

  Nin, Anaïs 235, 272, 391, 679; Diary 391, 403; A Spy in the House of Love 233

  Nirvanananda, Swami (Sujji Maharaj) 279, 322, 324, 325, 679

  Nishta (Countess Mabel Colloredo-Mansfeld) 304, 305, 306, 327, 330, 332, 621

  Nixon, Richard 20, 24, 237, 531, 569, 592

  Nizer, Louis, My Life in Court 361

  Noel, Craig 518

  North American Aviation Inc. 213–14

  Nottingham 76, 78

  Novák, Miroslav 314–15

  nuclear tests 105, 106, 107, 130, 137, 203, 340; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963) 282

  nuclear war, threat of 5, 49, 52, 55, 95, 106, 130, 139, 152, 224

  Nureyev, Rudolf 567

  Nys, Marguerite Balthus 297n

  Nys de Hauleville Wessberg, Rose 297

  Oakland, California 273

  Oberndorf (Austria) 403, 408, 413

  Oberon, Merle 182n, 215, 223, 679

  Observer (newspaper) 118, 171

  O’Crairdain, Sean 156

  Oderberg, Phillip 261–2, 279, 281, 283, 285, 288, 343

  Odets, Clifford 287

  O’Hara, Frank 402–3

  O’Hara, John, Sermons and Soda Water 157

  O’Hilderbrandt, Mrs. (Santa Monica neighbor) 545, 679

  Ohm, Carl 151

  Old, Doreen (pseud.) 56

  Old, Vernon (pseud.): appearance 56; visits C.I. 56; C.I.’s memories of 274, 377n, 495; 679–80

  Olivier, Laurence 12, 110, 131, 196, 680

  Olympic Games, Tokyo (1964) 302

  On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (film) 597

  One, Incorporated 351, 354–5; One (magazine) 175, 351; 680

  One-Eyed Jacks (film) 82

  O’Neal, Kevin 137–8

  O’Neal, (Patrick) Ryan 137–8

  O’Neill, Donna 79, 87, 680

  O’Neill, Eugene, Mourning Becomes Electra 130

  Oppenheim, E. Phillips 49

  Oppenheim, Mike 363

  Oppenheimer, Robert 179n, 313

  Orlovsky, Peter 387–8

  Orpheus (Cocteau film) 457

  Osborne, John: and Tony Richardson 72, 91, 109, 110, 481, 587; at London opening of Luther 91; marriage to Mary Ure 106n, 587; relationship with Jocelyn Rickards 106, 107, 108, 109, 114–15; relationship and marriage to Penelope Gilliatt 106n, 113, 115; in South of France 109, 110, 111; on antibomb demonstration 111, 113; 680–81

  The Hotel in Amsterdam 481, 516n; “A Letter to My Fellow Countrymen” 101–2; Luther 73, 76, 78, 79, 91; A Patriot for Me 76n; Time Present 514n

  Osmond, Cliff 363

  Pacific Coast Writers’ Conference 280

  Page, Anthony (Tony) 422, 446, 447, 458, 519, 569–70, 596, 681

  Page Smith, Charles 492

  Pagenstecher, Eleanor 34

  Pagli
(Amelia Monsour) 269, 356, 681–2

  Pago Pago, American Samoa 571, 576, 577

  Paicines, California 597

  Pakula, Alan 184, 377, 384, 386, 389, 394, 682

  Palerang, Australia 571, 586–9

  Paley, William (Bill) 369, 682

  Palm Springs, California 355, 574; C.I. visits Truman Capote in 497, 542–3

  Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (film) 202

  Papeete, Tahiti 571, 574, 576

  Paradise Now (The Living Theatre show) 548

  Parker, Dorothy 130, 160, 171, 173, 183, 184, 189, 194, 223, 280, 287, 682

  Parliament of Religions (India) 315, 316, 318, 320–21, 321–2, 324, 325, 332

  Parone, Edward 551, 682–3

  Patanjali 179n, 407

  Paths of Glory (film) 499

  Pauck, Hans Christian 411–12

  “Paul” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit) 5, 11, 32, 34, 38, 41, 43, 46, 51, 53, 54, 61, 66–7, 75, 80, 82, 83

  Pavitrananda, Swami 153, 212, 215, 319, 406, 683

  Paxton, Larry 176, 216, 278, 471, 489; funeral 275–6, 462

  Paz, Miss (pseud.; UCLA student) 364

  peace campaigners xxxii, 33, 456–7

  Peak District (England) 89

  Pearson, Hesketh, Beerbohm Tree 151

  Peck, Oscar, Sex Life of a Cop 485, 490

  Pegler, Westbrook 361

  Penguin Books (publishers) 584

  People (magazine) 512

  Pepys, Samuel 144

  Perry, Frank and Ellen 543

  Person, Jean 404

  Peschelt, Dr. (dentist) 115

  Peters, Edward 363, 368

  Petranant, Yvonne 4, 5

  Pfeiffer, Virginia 128, 238, 298, 299, 360, 439, 455, 683

  Philadelphia 149

  Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh 281

  Phipps, William Edward (Bill) 14, 252, 683

  Phoenix, Arizona: Museum of Art 238, 266, 271, 336, 452; Don Bachardy visits 255–6

  Picasso, Pablo 22, 126, 250

  Pickford, Mary 283

  Pierson, Thomas 175–6

  Pietrowicz, Richard 192–3, 468

  Pill, The (contraceptive) 447

  Pirandello, Luigi: Right You Are (If You Think You Are) 293–4; Six Characters in Search of an Author 44;

  Plato 41, 42, 139, 140, 144, 148; Phaedrus 37, 38, 49

  Platt, Ronald 479, 525

  Play of Daniel (musical drama) 152–3

  Plomer, William 88, 683–4; Turbott Wolfe 470

  Plowright, Joan 10, 110, 684

  Plunkett, Walter 34

  Poe, Edgar Allan 170, 494

  Point Dume, California 17–18, 290, 482

  Polanski, Roman 521

  Pole, Rupert 272–3, 679

  Pomare V, King of Tahiti 574

  Pope, Alexander 267–8, 497, 578

  population explosion, threat of 377

  Porter, Glenn 190, 192, 216–17, 234, 241–2, 456

  Porter, Katherine Anne 240–41

  Potter, Beatrix 28

  Pound, Ezra, Cavalcanti translations 494

  Powell, Graham 565, 567

  Power and the Glory, The (Greene; television adaptation) 131

  power failure in north-east U.S. (November 1965) 378

  Prabha (Phoebe Nixon; later Pravrajika Prabhaprana) 278, 684

  Prabhavananda, Swami: C.I.’s devotion to xi, xii, xxv, xxvii–xxviii, xxxvii, 324–5, 389, 507, 538, 539, 551, 553, 556, 561; initiation of Don Bachardy xv, 194, 195, 205, 245–6, 248, 251, 254; at Laguna Beach xvi, 210, 212; disapproves of drug use xx; C.I. questions teachings xxii, xxvi–xxvii, xxviii, 159, 215, 393; C.I. visits India with xxii–xxiii, xxv–xxvii, xxxii, xxxvii, 290, 291, 298, 300–334; teachings on purity xxiii–xxiv, 231–2; counsel to C.I. xxv, xxvii, 133–4, 157, 159, 248, 279, 324–5, 401–2, 435, 516, 561; illnesses xxvii–xxviii, xxxvii, 260, 302, 327, 329, 330, 332, 406, 500, 507, 535, 537, 599; devotion to Ramakrishna xxviii, 357, 385, 438, 562; and C.I.’s decision to leave monastery 9; Gita translation 9n, 265n, 516; visits C.I.’s house for first time 23; birthdays 36, 253, 311, 434, 435, 595; differences with Gerald Heard 48 & n; officiates at temple 48, 132, 262; unconditional love 52; at Trabuco 133–4, 238, 240, 277, 278–9, 568; and Maharaj (Swami Brahmananda) 133, 210, 253, 267, 279, 303, 357, 410, 438, 507, 532, 561; breakfast puja 156, 157, 259–60, 538; translation of Patanjali with C.I. 179; threatened by Marlene Laurence 190, 196; and death of George Sandwich 197; Father’s Day lunches 198, 397–8, 449–50; goaded by Dorothy Louis (Shraddha) 226; dreams and visions 236, 253, 256, 279, 338, 410, 438, 532, 538, 539–40; on psychic phenomena 240; on Sino-Indian War 243; on value of prayer 248, 279, 348; plans for training swamis from India 263; counsel on making japam 268–9; on sexuality and lust 269; age 270; and Usha’s sannyas 278, 286; on jealousy of Gerald Heard and Joseph Kolisch 279; on Queen Elizabeth II’s meeting with Radhakrishnan 281; on The Leopard (film) 292; and Nikhilananda 304, 305, 320–21; and Ranganathananda 318, 327; vows never to return to India 338; tells off Arup Chaitanya 340–41; and C.I.’s Ramakrishna and His Disciples 342; on death 348, 357, 406; caste prejudice 381; and Sarada 383, 395, 410; and Vidya’s possible move to India 383–4, 384–5, 535, 592–3; chadar given to C.I. 393, 407, 618; on Indian nationalism 393; trip to Chicago and New York 393; reads draft of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 395, 396; on morality 401–2; and proposed dedication of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River to Vidya 401, 406; convalescing 410, 426, 438, 441; meditation 426, 516; advice to monk having nervous breakdown 432; C.I.’s introduction to collection of lectures (Religion in Practice) 436, 439, 441, 442; relations with Vandanananda 441–2, 522, 540, 568, 581–2, 584; prostate operation 449, 470, 474; on Amiya’s stay at Vedanta Center 469; advises Jo Masselink on meditation following marriage break up 476; appearance on Les Crane’s television talk show 479–80; and death of Dick Thom 494, 497; in Mount Sinai Hospital 500, 507; seeks title for volume of Vivekananda’s letters 510–511; recovery and renewed concern for Vedanta Center affairs 522; indignation at changing priorities at Belur Math 525; and C.I.’s introduction to Vedanta for the Western World 539–40; on Shakespearean link to Gayatri mantra 554; enjoys production of Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God 559; blesses C.I.’s and Bachardy’s trip to Tahiti and Australia 570; at Vandanananda’s farewell lunch 581–2; translation of Narada’s Bhakti Sutras 581, 595; and Jim Gates 596; 684–5

  Prater Violet (C.I.) 249, 376, 453n, 498n, 598n

  Prema Chaitanya (earlier John Yale; afterwards Swami Vidyatmananda; Vidya): editor of Vedanta Society magazine 6, 7; C.I.’s relations with 24, 378, 384; visits C.I. 46, 130; at Hollywood Vedanta Center 48, 190, 262, 341; on guest list for C.I.’s party for Jo Masselink 55; meets C.I. on return from New York 155, 157; possible move to Boston center 236; Prabhavananda dreams about 236; account of drunken couple 268; at Trabuco 277–9; and Krishna 278–9; plans to stay in India 278, 286, 303, 305, 332–3; on Santa Barbara temple 278; and Usha 278, 329; upset by Rechy’s City of the Night 281; farewell dinner for 288, 289; at Belur Math 303, 304–5, 306, 307, 309, 310–312, 313–14, 322, 326, 328, 329, 330, 332–3, 406, 432; and C.I.’s Ramakrishna book 310–311; takes sannyas 312, 328–9, 331, 333, 336, 378; lecture on Vedanta Society of Southern California 313–14; talk on “Vivekananda Through the Eye of an American” 318; move to French center 341, 383–4, 396, 401; proofreads C.I.’s Ramakrishna and His Disciples 342; helps at Sarada Convent following brush fire 343; reads drafts of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 377, 390, 396, 397, 400; plans to move to India 384; at opening of Don Bachardy’s show at Rex Evans’s gallery 387; on love 388; and dedication of A Meeting by the River 401, 406; anthology of Vivekananda’s writings 407; on future of Belur Math after Prabhavananda’s death 410; possible recall to India 535, 592–3; 685–7

  presidential election 1960 20 & n, 23–4, 25–6, 687

  presidential election 1964 285n, 289, 344, 345, 350

  presidential election 1968 502, 508, 523, 525, 531, 687

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nbsp; Preston, Jonathan 63, 64, 72, 74, 92, 98, 100, 687

  Priestley, J.B. 101

  Prince, Hal 551, 687

  Princeton, USS 217, 241, 242, 244

  Princeton University 405

  Prinzmetal, Myron 254

  Prosser, Lee 286, 296, 364, 584, 687

  Prosser, Mary 364, 584

  Protetch, David 146, 147, 156

  Proust, Marcel 2, 40, 322, 345, 422

  Providence, Rhode Island, Vedanta center 236

  Pryce-Jones, Alan 155

  Puri, Orissa 279

  Quakers 18, 51, 358

  Queen (magazine) 88, 100, 114

  Queensberry, Francis Douglas, 11th Marquess of, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas 62

  Quigley, Peter 245

  Rabb, Ellis 518, 688

  race riots 459–60, 504, 506

  Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli 281

  Radziwill, Princess (Caroline Lee Bouvier) 198, 200, 201

  Rahvis, Raemonde 121

  Rainer, Dachine 215

  Ramakrishna: death xxiii, 315; honesty xxiii–xxiv, 231–2; C.I.’s devotion to xxviii, 278; C.I. tries to dedicate mother’s burial spot to 93; prophesies 134; and Anne Marshall’s book 231; purity 232; C.I. questions value of prayer to 247; Brahmananda and 257, 562; Vivekananda and 257–8, 260, 562; throat cancer 284, 286; final revelation 480; 688

  Ramakrishna and His Disciples (C.I.): writing xxii–xxiii, 6, 44, 56, 66, 79, 96, 106, 140, 143, 169, 171, 179, 180, 186, 200, 206, 216, 219, 260; C.I. bored by 137, 170, 271; and Vivekananda 201, 271, 285; and Prabhavananda 232; chapter on disciples 259; final chapters 271, 280, 282–3, 284, 285–6, 289; Don Bachardy’s suggestions for 285, 289; preparations for publication 290; revision 291–2, 295, 298, 336; title 291; illustrations 310, 315, 342; Prema’s criticisms of 311; correction of proofs 341, 342

  Ramakrishna Mission College, West Bengal 312, 313

  Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta 314–16, 317–18, 327

  Ramaswamy, Iyer 363

  Ramsey, Arthur Michael, Archbishop of Canterbury 209

  RAND Corporation 5

  Ranganathananda, Swami 314, 317–18, 323, 327, 331, 538, 540, 688–9

  Rashomon (film) 110

  Rasponi, Count Lanfranco 146, 147, 151, 153, 194

  Ratan, Jai 329

  Rattigan, Terence 19, 111, 689; Man and Boy 110, 111

  “Rawhide” (television show) 374

  Ray, Andrew 10 & n, 81, 689

  Read, Jan 3

  Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature 288

  Reagan, Nancy 463

  Reagan, Ronald 463, 473

  Rechy, John 12, 15, 19, 23, 450, 460, 482–3, 689; City of the Night 281; Numbers 478–9, 482–3

 

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