Taste of Honey, A (film) 60–61, 111, 114n
Tate, Sharon 521–2, 573, 579, 706
Taylor, Elizabeth 342
Taylor, Jay 319
Taylor, Paul 88, 222
Teleny (anonymous novel) 485
Teller, Edward 179, 285, 706–7
“Tempo” (British television program) 118
Tennant, Stephen 76–7, 707
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 335
Ter-Arutunian, Rouben 352
Testament of Orpheus, The (film) 559
Texas, Hurricane Carla 111
Texas, University of, purchase of literary manuscripts 102, 103
That Man from Rio (film) 347
Theater in the Street (charitable organization) 550
Theater West, Los Angeles 578
Thimann, Kenneth 489
Thirroul, Australia 571, 589
Thom, Richard (Dick) 133, 494, 497, 707
Thom, Tommy 507
Thomas, Bob, Selznick 541
Thomas, Dylan 3, 483, 498
Thomas, Hugh 77, 78, 81
Thompson, John Lee 462
Thompson, Nicholas 548, 563, 707
Thomson, Virgil 392, 555, 707–8
Thornhill, Anthony 451
Thornton, Edward, The Diary of a Mystic 594–5
Thurber, James 575
Time (magazine) 79, 160, 171, 264, 285, 287, 310, 512
Time and Tide (magazine) 211
Times, The 120
Titov, German 99
Tokyo 301, 302–3
Toland, John, The Last 100 Days 431
Tolkien, J.R.R. 443; The Lord of the Rings 447
Tolstoy, Leo 335, 378; Father Sergius 181; Resurrection 329
Topolski, Feliks 544
Trabuco: C.I. visits 132–4, 238, 239–40, 277–9, 567–8; C.I. considers two-month stay 225; Jim Gates stays at 595–6, 598; 708
Trancas, California 237
Tree, Iris 4, 29, 67, 70, 79, 87, 177, 430–31, 708
Tree, Romney 192
Trevor-Roper, Hugh 101
Trilling, Diana 453
Trilling, Lionel 453
Triple Revolution (pamphlet) 354
Trott, Byron 473, 477
Trout, Stanley 490
Turgenev, Ivan, The Torrents of Spring (television adaptation) 422, 428, 445
Turiyananda, Swami 480
Turner, Graham, The North Country 470
Tutin, Dorothy 270, 708–9
2001 (film) 506, 519, 525
Tyler, Keats 223
Tynan, Elaine see Dundy, Elaine
Tynan, Kenneth 81–2, 85, 118, 709
Tyson, Cicely 529
UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles): C.I. as Regents’ Professor xxx, 17n, 336, 351, 354, 356, 362–4, 366, 367–8; C.I. as visiting professor xxx; C.I. lectures at 30, 42, 43, 44, 51, 56, 225, 236; Picasso exhibition 126; performance of Pirandello’s Right You Are (If You Think You Are) 293–4; scientific and technical lectures 360; film screenings 374, 547; Hockney teaches at 397; student films show 426; C.I. offered teaching post 483; rejects C.I.’s play A Meeting by the River 547; alumni fundraiser 563n
UCSB see Santa Barbara, University of California at
Underhill, Ben (pseud.) 33, 54, 57–8, 220–21, 274, 275, 296, 469, 471–2, 485–6, 487–8, 597
United Nations (U.N.) 234, 235, 236
United States of America: nuclear tests 107; Berlin crisis 114; Cuban Missile Crisis 234, 237, 241, 243; C.I. declines to write article on best and worst of 243; Los Angeles Times article on urban and rural wilderness 464; compared with Australia 587; C.I. asked to nominate the most hated man in America 591–2
University of California at Berkeley see Berkeley, University of California at
University of California at Irvine see Irvine, University of California at
University of California at Los Angeles see UCLA
University of California at Riverside see Riverside, University of California at
University of California at Santa Barbara see Santa Barbara, University of California at
University of California at Santa Cruz see Santa Cruz, University of California at
University of Southern California see USC
Untermeyer, Bryna Ivans 267
Untermeyer, Louis 266–7
Uplifters (amateur theater group) 224–5
Upward, Edward: at Cambridge 23; reads draft of C.I.’s Down There on a Visit 30, 32, 36, 50, 53, 61, 63; retirement plans 61; fantasy world with C.I. 89n, 448–9, 492; praises draft of C.I.’s A Single Man 284, 285, 287; reads drafts of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 375, 376–7, 383, 391, 400; C.I. meets during England visits (1961) 61, 63, 86; (1967) 449; 709–710
In the Thirties 73n, 211, 212, 214; The Rotten Elements 449
Upward, Hilda 86
Ure, Mary 10 & n, 71–2, 114, 587; birth of son 106, 107, 113; 710
U.S. Steel (corporation) 182
USC (University of Southern California) 170, 547; lectures 8, 391; banquets and dinners 196, 197, 359–60, 391
Usha (Ursula Bond; later Pravrajika Anandanprana) 278, 286, 288, 329, 338, 342, 710
USSR: Berlin crisis 101–2, 103; nuclear tests 105, 106, 107, 130, 137; removal of Stalin’s body from mausoleum 130; Nehru on 136; anti-Semitism 141–2; C.I.’s loathing of communism 205; Cuban Missile Crisis 234, 235, 241, 243; Limited Test Ban Treaty 282
Vacant Room, The (C.I. with Gavin Lambert; screenplay) 35, 159
Vadim, Roger 539, 710–711
Valadon, Suzanne 452
Valéry, Paul 155
Vallance, Mark 319–20
Valley of the Dolls (film) 498
van Druten, John 70, 551n, 711; I Am a Camera (play) 34n, 50n, 201, 286, 344n, 371, 373, 426, 520, 546
Van Horn, Mike 444, 711
van Petten, Bill 451–2, 711
Van Sant, Tom 370, 711
Vandanananda, Swami: at Hollywood Vedanta Center 48, 522, 540; at Trabuco 133, 239, 568; in Laguna Beach 212; lectures at Santa Barbara 239–40; and C.I.’s Ramakrishna and His Disciples 342; return to India 441–2, 522, 584; farewell lunch 581–2; 711
Vanderbilt, Gloria 216, 217
Vane, Sutton, Outward Bound 338
Vanocur, Sander 536
Variety (newspaper) 424, 536, 550
Variety (Santa Monica gay bar) 590n
Vaughan, Henry 578
Vaughan, Keith 248, 712
Vedanta Center, Hollywood (Vedanta Place; formerly Ivar Avenue): CI’s regular attendance xii, 48, 52, 132, 190, 226, 231, 236, 245, 263, 268–9, 291, 338, 344, 389, 397–8, 451, 537, 539, 553; Gerald Heard’s differences with 48 & n; C.I. stays at on return from New York 157; Father’s Day lunches 198, 397–9, 449–50, 564–5; C.I.’s talk on Vivekananda 260; C.I.’s reputation at 399; 712
Vedanta Society of Southern California 313–14
Vedanta and the West (magazine) 6 & n
Vedanta for the Western World (anthology; ed. C.I.) 10, 279, 539–40
Venice, California 558
Ventura, Clyde 427, 712
Verdi, Giuseppe 335
Verlaine, Paul 457, 481
Victim (film) 121
Vidal, Gore: in California 131–2, 500, 502, 523, 525, 535, 537–8, 539; politics 131–2, 134, 147, 299, 502; adaptation of Duerrenmatt’s Romulus the Great 132, 146, 149; review of Evelyn Waugh 132; in New York 146, 148, 155; move to Italy 262; reported feud with Bobby Kennedy 262; signatory to telegram to Time magazine 287; gives C.I. Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature 288; C.I. dedicates A Single Man to 289; on John F. Kennedy’s assassination 299; on Lyndon Johnson 299; Esquire magazine article on Tarzan 301; C.I. stays with in Rome 334; Don Bachardy’s views on 500, 538; coverage of 1968 presidential election 502, 523, 525; and William F. Buckley 502, 523; father’s cancer 535; applies for Swiss residency 537; Jewish ancestry 537–8; at Vadims’ party 539; 713
Vidor, King 25, 254, 387, 713
Vidyatmananda, Swami (Vidya) see Prema Chaitanya
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br /> Viertel, Peter, Love Lies Bleeding 345
Viertel, Salka 403, 452n, 590, 713–14
Vietnam War 384n, 385, 409, 460, 502, 525, 591, 649–50; antiwar movement xxxii, 456–7, 481
Vijaya Raje Scindia, Maharanee of Gwalior 309
Vince, Mr. & Mrs. (Wyberslegh housekeepers) 89, 90, 93
Vinson, John William (Billy) 149
Visconti, Luchino 117
Vishuddhananda 197
“Visit to Anselm Oaks, A” (C.I.; short story) 66n
Vivekananda, Swami (Narendra/Naren; Swamiji): centenary celebrations xxii, 290, 309, 314, 328, 329–30; Kent Chapman’s novella about 53–4; “The Real Nature of Man” (lecture) 185; in C.I.’s Ramakrishna book 201, 271, 285; and Ramakrishna 231, 257–8, 260, 562; C.I.’s talk on 260; Prabhavananda’s visions of 279, 438, 539–40; on mission work 320; Vidya’s anthology of writings 407; on evil 458; volume of letters in English 510–511, 516; on love 511; and C.I.’s introduction to Vedanta for the Western World 539–40; on duty 545; C.I. attempts translation of poetry 552; 714
Vogue (magazine) 429
Voices from the Crowd (anthology) vii
von Arnim, Elizabeth 92
von Furstenberg, Betsy 153
Voutsinas, Andreas 194n
Vucetich, Don 182
Wagner, Ken 276
Wagner, Richard 19, 335
Wald, Connie 223, 239, 714–15
Wald, Jerry 72, 181, 206, 239n, 714–15
“Waldemar” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit) 9, 17, 20, 28–9, 30, 32, 54, 65
Walk on the Wild Side (film) 192
Wallace, George 592
Walrus, The (dance hall; Venice, California) 558
Walsh, Doug (pseud.) 557
Warhol, Andy 156, 447, 578
Warshaw, Frances 15; in Santa Barbara 30, 41, 42–3, 50, 51, 249, 261; visits C.I. 57; character 261
Warshaw, Howard: praises Don Bachardy’s drawings 12, 31; on abstract art 22; in Santa Barbara 22, 24, 30–31, 41, 42, 50, 51, 249, 261; friendship and socializing with C.I. 57, 129, 504; post at UCSB 57; relations with mother 129, 134; sketches 129; at lunch with Elisabeth Mann Borgese 504; 715
Washington, D.C. 504–5, 506
Watkins, Fred 172
Watts, Alan 439, 555, 715–16
Watts, Los Angeles 465, 546, 549
Watumull, Mr. (Honolulu clothing manufacturer) 11
Waugh, Evelyn 132; death 391
Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold 307
Weatherford, Jim 552
Weaver, John and Harriet 266–7
Wedekind, Frank, proposed adaptation of Lulu plays 422, 428, 446, 447, 449, 458, 596
Wedekind, Kadidja 596
Weidenfeld, George 153, 716
Weidenfeld and Nicolson (publishers) 77
Weill, Kurt 19
Weisenburger, Alfred 24
Welch, Denton 403
Welles, Orson 566
Wells, H.G. 28
Wells, Mason 274
Wenck, Walther 431
Werth, Alexander, Russia at War 348
Wescott, Glenway 516n, 716; The Pilgrim Hawk 404
Wesker, Arnold 77, 101, 111, 716
Wessberg, Sigfrid 297
West, Mae 213
West, Morris, Shoes of the Fisherman 395, 396, 399, 422
Western Samoa 571, 577–8, 579–81
“What Vedanta Means to Me” (C.I.) 309
Wheeler, Monroe 46, 47, 716
Whistle Down the Wind (film) 114
Whitcomb, Ian 455–6, 716
White, Alan 66, 81, 82, 96, 98, 446
White, Frederika 363
White Horse Ranch, California 220–21
Whitman, Bill 274–5
Whitman, Walt, Specimen Days 411
Whitney, John Hay (Jock) 458
Who’s Who in the West (reference book) 530
Whymper, Edward, The Ascent of the Matterhorn 424
Wilcox, Collin (Horne) 431; Don Bachardy’s portraits of 344n, 378–9, 426; 717
Wilde, Oscar 62, 269, 275, 593
Wilding, Michael 400, 435, 717
Wiley, Frank (pseud.): student at Santa Barbara 12, 25; writings 12, 25, 248, 255, 286; naval officer 199, 217, 244, 264; C.I.’s letters to 222, 234; drinks and dines with C.I. 250, 263–4; borrows book on Miró 255, 264; Don Bachardy’s drawings of 255; stepmother 255; stinginess 264; resignation from navy 284
Wilkinson, Stephan 172
Williams, Billy Dee 10 & n
Williams, Clifford 593, 594, 595, 717
Williams, Emlyn 84, 498, 717; Night Must Fall 433
Williams, Molly 84, 498
Williams, Tennessee: Don Bachardy’s designs for 16, 17, 18, 19; friendship with C.I. 18; and Frank Merlo 149, 352; in New York 149, 150, 353; Bachardy’s portrait of 223; Bachardy feels slighted by 351, 353; project to film “One Arm” 457, 469, 479, 524–5; in California 523, 524–5; featured in Life magazine ad 564; 717–18
The Glass Menagerie 394; In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel 564; The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore 353; The Night of the Iguana 149, 150, 200, 201, 216; Period of Adjustment 16, 17, 24
Willingham, Calder 301; Eternal Fire 272, 273
Willson, F.M. Glenn 491
Willson, Henry 528
Wilmington, Delaware 17
Wilson, Angus: in California 19, 485, 486–7; and Stephen Spender 59–60; C.I. visits in England 91, 94–5, 99, 118; reviews C.I.’s Down There on a Visit 118, 171, 179; 718
The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot 93–4; No Laughing Matter 486; The Old Men at the Zoo 117, 118
Wilson, Colin 127–9, 144, 718
Wilson, Edmund, Memoirs of Hecate County 411
Wilson, Scott 438
Wilson, Dr. (to Charles Laughton) 237–8
Winslow, Al 304, 305–6, 311, 319, 327, 332, 333, 718
Winter, Ella (Mrs. Donald Ogden Stewart) 97, 703–4
Winters, Shelley 223, 718
Wintle, Hector 400–401, 718–19
Withers, Googie 149
Wizan, Joe 564
Wolfe, Humbert, George Moore 96
Wolfe, Tom 446
Wolheim, Adrian (pseud.) 240
Wollheim, Richard 115
Woman Who Rode Away The 584–5
Wonner, Paul: and Bill Brown 248, 288; C.I. first meets 248; painting style 248; at Don Bachardy’s birthday party 277; shares studio with Bachardy 280, 283, 289; illness 287, 576; friendship and socializing with C.I. 295, 297, 362, 425, 472, 517; in C.I.’s dream 308; views on Bachardy’s work 343, 362; house above Malibu 478; spiritual beliefs 517; sees Fortune and Men’s Eyes with C.I. 541; new house in Montecito 565; trip to South America 565, 576; 719
Wood, Christopher: lends book to C.I. 49; character 123; friendship and socializing with C.I. 127, 297, 450, 494, 556; skin cancers 127; enthusiasm for C.I.’s Down There on a Visit 160; and Aldous Huxley 282; death of dog Penny 290–91, 293, 361; enjoys C.I.’s A Single Man 293; and Gerald Heard 337, 406, 409, 411, 457, 522; new dog Beau 340, 450; feud with Michael Barrie 379–80; at opening of Don Bachardy’s show at Rex Evans’s gallery 387; and dedication of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 406–7, 411; considers returning to England 450; and Paul Sorel 450, 556; and Peggy Kiskadden 494; 719
Wood, Natalie 339–40, 344n, 427, 719
Woodbury, Dana 49, 126, 134, 387, 719
Woodcock, Patrick 108, 131, 453, 719
Woodfall Productions (film company) 481, 581
Woodward, George 381
Woolf, James (Jimmy) 121, 348, 720
Woolf, Leonard 443
Woolf, Manny 585
Woolf, Virginia 222, 443; C.I.’s proposed Encounter article on 124, 126, 130
Mrs. Dalloway xvii–xviii, 184, 211, 217, 219; The Waves 272, 273, 437
World in the Evening, The (C.I.) xxiv, 10, 66, 81, 191, 225, 288, 428
World War I, death of C.I.’s father in 417–19, 441
World War II: joke about British bankruptcy 193; Toland’s The Last 100 Days 431
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p; Worsley, T.C. (Cuthbert) 109, 110, 111, 720
Worton, Len 133, 240, 279, 720
Wouk, Herman 367 Wozzeck (opera) 405
Wright, Basil 496
Wright, Ben 225
Wright, Frank Lloyd 477
Wright, Frank Lloyd, Jr. 252
Wright, Olgivanna 255–6, 257
Wright, Teresa 106
Wright, Thomas E. (Tom): friendship and socializing with C.I. 12, 19, 25, 55, 129, 192, 221–2; and Jim Charlton 24; trip to Central America 193, 222; character 222; book on Mexico 393; 720
Wyberslegh Hall (Cheshire) 80, 88, 89–90, 92–3, 123–4, 407, 419, 420, 421, 451, 720
Yacoubi, Ahmed xx
Yale, John see Prema Chaitanya
Yampolsky, Frances 216
Yatiswarananda, Swami 310, 332, 720–21
Yeats, W.B. xi, 403
York, Michael 539, 721
Yorke, Adelaide (“Dig”) 123
Yorke, Henry 103, 123, 282, 721–2
Yorke, Sebastian 123
Yorkshire Post, The 96
You Only Live Twice (film) 468–9
Young One, The (film) 44
Youngblood Hawke (film) 365
Zeffirelli, Franco 124
Zeigel, John (Johnny; Jack): C.I.’s relations with 46, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 56, 56–7; visits C.I. 46, 47–8, 56–7, 143, 144; relationship with Ed Halsey 47, 49, 50, 53, 57, 144, 230; C.I. visits in Claremont 51n, 54; C.I. visits Santa Barbara with 51, 53; at C.I.’s party for Jo Masselink 56; and death of Halsey 230, 233, 238; studies at Cal. Tech. 230; and Don Bachardy 239; proposes meeting in Mexico 240; C.I. visits in Pasadena 268; sees apparition of Halsey 268; and Thom Gunn 488; 722
Zimbalist, Mary 539
Zola, Emile, Restless House 184
Zorina, Vera 57n
Zortman, Bruce 139, 193, 201, 281, 284, 293
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