by Peter Watson
Knight, Arthur, 326
Knopf, Alfred A., 216; and Blanche, 423
Knossos, Crete, 15–17
Koch, Kenneth, 512
Kodály, Zoltán, 181
Koestler, Arthur, 410
Kohler, Wolfgang, 360
Kojève, Alexandre, 408, 410, 625
Kokoschka, Oskar, 59, 145, 159, 227, 350, 355
Kollwitz, Käthe, 145, 300
Kol’tsov, Michael, 334
Kolyma, 315–16, 482
Kooning, Willem de see de Kooning, Willem
Kops, Bernard, 464
Korolev, Sergei Pavlovich, 482–4, 567
Krafft-Ebing, Baron Richard von, 14, 33–5, 53–4; Psychopathia sexualis, 33
Kramer, Peter: Listening to Prozac, 761
Kraus, Karl, 28, 35, 56, 180, 231; The Last Days of Mankind, 157, 192–3 Kravchenko, Victor: I Chose Freedom, 413
Kreisler, Fritz, 356
Kreutz, Johnny, 232
Kristol, Irving, 447, 704
Kropotkin, Prince Peter, 42
Krugman, Paul, 648–9; Peddling Prosperity, 652
Krupp, Alfred, 241
Ku Klux Klan, 207–8
Kubelik, Jan, 241
Kubizek, August, 243
Kubrick, Stanley, 584
Kuhn, Thomas, 668, 669, 670, 676; Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 488–9, 597, 618
Kuhn, Walt, 127–8
Kun, Béla, 234
Kupka, Frantisek, 63
Laborit, Henri, 501
Lacan, Jacques, 408, 624, 625–7, 629–31, 634, 669; Ecrits, 626
Ladipo, Duro, 713
Ladurie, Emmanuel le Roy see le Roy
Ladurie, Emmanuel
Laetoli, Tanzania, 613
La Folette, Robert, 383
Laforgue, Jules, 128
Lagarde, Paul, 240
Laing, Ronald D., 502–3, 527, 626–7, 644; The Divided Self, 491
Lam, Wilfredo, 354
Lamb, Horace, 158
Lamb, Willis, 508
Landau, Lev, 258
Landes, David: Wealth and Poverty of Nations, 755, 764
Landesco, John: Organised Crime in Chicago, 282
Lane, Allen, 337–40
Lang, Fritz, 357
Langbehn, Julius, 240
Langevin, Paul, 132
Lanz von Liebenfels, George, 243
Lapouge, Count Georges Vacher de, 42, 44, 206
Larionov, Mikhail, 164
Larkin, John, 82
Larkin, Philip, 464–5; The Less Deceived, 464
La Rocca, Nick, 216
Lascaux, France, 369–70
Lasch, Christopher: The Culture of Narcissism, 599–601, 605, 620, 761
Laski, Harold, 306
Lasky, Melvin J., 447
Lasswell, Harold, 376
Last Year in Marienbad (film), 639
Laubenstein, Linda, 657
Lautréamont, comte (Isidore Ducasse), 409
Laval, Léon, 359
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, 489
Lawrence, D. H., 99, 142, 280, 297, 422, 531, 581, 759; Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 429; Sons and Lovers, 136–7
Lawrence, Ernest, 473, 507
Lawrence, Florence, 89
Lawrence, Frieda (née von Richthofen), 136
Lawrence, T. E., 249, 714
Lazersfeld, Paul, 439
League of Nations, 177
Leakey, Frieda, 486
Leakey, Louis, 484–7, 556, 607, 609, 612, 688
Leakey, Mary, 484–7, 607, 612–13–14, 688; Olduvai Gorge, 607
Leakey, Richard, 612
Leary, Timothy, 596–7
Leavis, F. R., 338, 451–2, 454, 464, 465–70, 489, 706, 723; The Common Pursuit, 452; The Great Tradition, 452
Leavis, Queenie D., 451; Fiction and the Reading Public, 338–40
Leavitt, Henrietta, 265
Lebanon: universities, 73
le Conte, Joseph, 43
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), 223–4, 331–2, 521, 622
le Duc, Violette, 421
Lee, Brenda, 457
Lefkowitz, Mary and Guy MacLean (eds): Black Athena Revisited, 728–9
Léger, Fernand, 355
Lehman, David: The Last Avant-Garde, 512
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, 99–100, 746
Leigh, Janet, 490–1
Lelevich, Klychkov, 324
Lemaître, Georges, 265–6, 508
Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VASKhNIL), 474
Lenin All-Union Academy of Sciences, 318
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 37, 165
Le Nôtre, André, 173
Lenz, Fritz, 310
Lenz, Max, 20
Leonov, L. M.: Russian Forest, 323
Leopold II, King of the Belgians, 51
Leopold III, King of the Belgians, 367
le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, 627; Montaillou, 560; The Peasants of Languedoc, 557, 560
Levi-Civita, Tullio, 352
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 354, 421, 423, 461–2, 488, 627, 630, 675; De près et de loin, 2; Tristes Tropiques, 461
Levine, Lawrence: The Opening of the American Mind, 725–6
Levy, Julien, 510
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 274
Lewinski, Robert, 361–2
Lewis, David Levering, 217n
Lewis, Sinclair, 186, 208–9, 212, 285, 347; Babbitt, 208–12, 215
Lewisohn, Richard, 147
Lewontin, Richard, 692, 696–8; see also Gould, Stephen Jay
Leznai, Anna, 181
Liadov, Anatol, 130
Libby, Willard F., 563
Lichtenstein, Roy, 511
Liebermann, Max, 300, 302
Liebknecht, Karl, 163
Lifar, Serge, 409
Lilienthal, Otto, 84
Limits to Growth see Club of Rome
Linde, Andrei, 741–2
Linton, Ralph, 494
Lipchitz, Jacques, 354
Lippmann, Walter, 704
Lipset, Seymour Martin, 447
Lissitzky, Eliezer, 164–5
Little Rock, Arkansas, 459
Liushits, Benedikt, 324
Lloyd George, David, 174, 177, 218, 383
Locke, Alain, 215, 216
Lodge, Sir Oliver, 157
Loew, Marcus, 87
Löffler, Friedrich, 20
Lombroso, Cesare, 45, 48, 148
London see individual institutions
London, Fritz, 267–8, 373
London, Jack, 453
London School of Economics, 292
Long, Breckinridge, 354
Loos, Adolf, 34–5, 192, 223
Loos, Anita, 266
Lorenz, Konrad, 309–10, 606
Lorre, Peter, 357
Los Alamos, New Mexico, 398–9
Lovejoy, Arthur: The Great Chain of Being, 77
Lovelock, James, 693
Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, 265
Lowell, Robert, 538
Lowentha Robert, 649
Luce, Henry, 211
‘Lucy’ (hominid skeleton), 612
Ludendorff, General Erich, 171
Lueger, Karl, 12, 43, 45
Lukács, George, 181–3, 234–5, 376; History and Class Consciousness, 234 Luks, George, 86
Lumière, Auguste and Louis, 24, 87
Lunacharsky, Anatoli, 37, 165–7
Lunts, Daniel, 541
Luo jialun, 179
Luther, Martin, 296
Luxembourg, Rosa, 163
Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren or Chou Shujen), 178
Lyell, Sir Charles, 41
Lynch, Dan, 737, 739
Lynd, Robert and Helen: Middletown, 212–15, 424, 439, 453
Lyotard, Jean-François, 681; The Postmodern Condition, 667–8, 671, 673
Lysenko, Trofim, 319–21, 390, 473–6, 488, 540–1
Maar, Dora, 336, 411
Macbeth Gall, New York, 85
MacCarthy, Desmond, 277
McCarthy, Senato
r Joseph, 434–5, 452
McCosh, James, 726
McCusick, Victor, 700
Macdonald, Dwight, 439
McDougall, William, 242
McGinn, Colin, 701
Mach, Ernst, 32, 36–7, 94
Machu Picchu, 120–1, 248
Maclnnes, Colin, 459, 462–3, 672n
Maclntyre, Alasdair: Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, 678–9
McIntyre, Dr John, 49
McKay, Claude, 216
Mackay, Ellin, 218
Macke, August, 144
Mackenzie, Compton, 286
McKie, Robin, 615
McKim, Mead and White (New York
construction company), 86
MacLean, Guy, 728
McLuhan, Marshall, 331, 546–7, 592
MacNeice, Louis, 332
Maddox, John: What Remains to Be Discovered, 701, 756–7
Madge, Charles, 386
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 24
Magee, Bryan: Confessions of a Philosopher, 767–8
Magritte, René, 205
Mahfouz, Naguib, 713
Mahler, Gustav, 37, 54, 56–71, 158
Mahler-Werfel, Alma, 354, 356
Mailer, Norman, 531, 537–8, 592, 600; An American Dream, 537–8; Armies of the Night, 537–8
Maillol, Aristide, 59
Malevich, Kasimir, 164–6
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 142, 279, 307
Malkin, Joseph, 356
Mallarmé, Stephane, 23, 128
Mallowan, Sir Max, 337
Malraux, André, 61, 334–6, 354, 413; L’Espoir, 335
Malthus, Thomas R., 242
Mamet, David: American Buffalo, Glengarry Glenn Ross, 717 Manchester Guardian: on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, 50
Manco Inca, 118–21
Mandelbrot, Benoit, 747
Mandelstam, Nadezhda, 324
Mandelstam, Osip, 317, 322–4
Manet, Edouard, 127, 162
Manguin, Henri, 60
Manhattan Project, 397, 399, 506
Mann, Heinrich, 229, 354, 357
Mann, Katia (née Pringsheim), 135
Mann, Lynda, 682–3
Mann, Thomas, 64, 135, 142, 173, 228, 232, 353, 356, 503, 758; Death in Venice, 135–7, 171–2; The Magic Mountain, 228–9, 234
Mannheim, Karl, 181–2, 305, 381–2, 387, 439, 441; Diagnosis of Our Time, 376–8
Mansfield, Katherine, 99, 104
Mantoux, Etienne, 176
Mao Zedong, 180, 539
Mapangubwe, 557
Mapplethorpe, Robert, 663
Marc, Franz, 55, 64, 144, 172, 301
March, Harold, 137
Marconi, Guglielmo, 210
Marcuse, Herbert, 39, 225, 308, 502–3, 505, 596, 604, 644, 730; Eros and Civilisation, 503; An Essay on Liberation, 545–6; One-Dimensional Man, 503, 537, 584
Margulis, Lynn, 685
Marie von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe, Princess, 227
Maritain, Jacques, 334, 353
Marquesas Islands, 494
Marquet, Albert, 60
Márquez Gabriel García, 706, 770; One Hundred Years of Solitude, 707–9
Marsden, Ernest, 92
Marshall, Thurgood, 525
Martin, John, 359
Marx, Karl: admires Darwin, 474; and alienation, 599; Bertrand Russell’s interest in, 100; and deconstruction, 632; failed connection with Freud, 753; forecasts collapse of capitalism, 224–5; and Freud, 502–3, 632; Gellner attacks, 665; on immiseration, 596; Popper attacks, 380; and Russian science, 318; Schumpeter opposes, 377–8; and Social Darwinism, 42
Masaryk, Jan, 353, 412
Masaryk, Tomás, 30
Maser, Werner, 242–3
Maslow, Abraham, 664; The Psychology of Science, 596–7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 74, 497
Massine, Léonide, 130, 203
Masson, André, 204, 354
Masson, Jeffrey: Against Therapy, 663–4
Masters, William Howell, 426–7, 429; Human Sexual Inadequacy (with
Virginia Johnson), 529; Human Sexual Response (with Virginia Johnson), 427
Mathematical Review, 351–2
Mathieu, René, 414
Matisse, Henri, 60, 62, 144, 353
Matisse, Pierre, 350
Maugham, W. Somerset, 278
Mauriac, François, 334
Maurras, Charles, 409
Maxwell, James Clerk, 20–2, 29, 210, 256, 743
May, Frederick, 191
May, Rollo, 664
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 167, 322, 325
Mayer, Maria, 507
Mayerhold, Vsevelod, 324
Mayr, Ernst, 372–3; The Growth of Biological Thought, 19; Systematics and the Origin of Species, 371
Mead, Margaret, 118, 142, 277–81, 423, 431–2, 462, 577, 665–6; Coming of Age in Samoa, 278–9, 665
Medawar, Sir Peter, 759
Medvedev, Roy, 540–1
Medvedev, Zhores, 540–1
Meidner, Ludwig, 302, 350
Meitner, Lise, 392, 395–6
Menchu, Rigoberta, 731
Mencken, H., 279
Mendel, Pater Gregor, 18–20, 36, 113–14, 320
Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich, 258
Mengele, Josef, 310
Menninger, Karl, 423
Meredith, James, 524
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 408, 410–12, 421, 626
Merriam, Charles, 282
Messiaen, Oliver, 413–14, 623
Meyer, Carl, 222
Meynert, Theodor, 30
Michurin, I. V., 474
Microsoft Corporation, 605
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 223–4, 304–5, 622
Milhaud, Darius, 356
Mill, John Stuart, 99, 548
Miller, Arthur, 640; Death of a Salesman, 437
Miller, Henry, 531
Miller, Herbert, 283
Miller, L. S., 684
Millett, Kate: Sexual Politics, 531
Mills, C. Wright, 447, 449, 454, 459, 595–6; The Power Elite and other tides, 439–41
Minotaur, 17
Mintz, Leo, 457
Miró, Joan, 204
Mitchell, Juliet: Women’s Estate, 530–1
Modersohn-Becker, Paula, 227
Modigliani, Amedeo, 294, 354, 718
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo, 304–5, 354
Molotov, Vyacheslav M., 482; non-aggression pact with Ribbentrop (1939), 320, 413
Moltke, Helmut von, 241
Mondrian, Piet, 129, 355
Monet, Claude, 64
Monod, Jacques, 616–18
Montagnier, Luc, 660
Montagu, Ashley, 390, 423
Montaillou, 560
Montand, Yves, 627
Monteux, Pierre, 131
Montgomery, Alabama, 458, 524
Montherlant, Henri de, 422
Montignac, France, 368–9
Moog, Robert, 624
Moore, G. E., 99–100, 174
Moreau, Jeanne, 639
Morgan, T. H., 112, 113–17, 121, 267, 318–20, 346, 372
Morgan, William Jason, 554
Morozov, Georgy, 541
Morozov, Ivan, 164
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, 175, 201, 291, 297
Morris, Desmond, 616
Morris, Earl, 253
Morris, Simon Conway: The Crucible of Creation, 697
Morris, William, 223
Morrison, Blake, 465
Morrison, Toni: Beloved and other tides, 705
Morrow, William, 279
Morton, Jelly Roll, 216
Moscow, 165
Mosley, Sir Oswald, 367
Mosse, George L., 240–1, 240–1
Motherwell, Robert, 355, 510
Mount Wilson, California, 265, 267
Moynihan, Daniel P., 534, 704
Moynihan, Patrick see Glazer, Nathan
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (film), 414, 637
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 294
Muhammad Adh-
Dhib, 574
Müller, Karl Otfried, 728
Mumford, Lewis, 521; The Culture of Cities, 289; Technics and Civilisation, 288
Munch, Eduard, 35
Muncie, Indiana, 212
Munich: character, 172; Degenerate Art exhibition in, 312–13; secession in, 59, 64
Munro, Neil, 49
Murray, Charles: Losing Ground, 653–4, 767; see also Herrnstein, Richard J.
Murray, George, 103
Murrow, Edward R., 352
Murry, John Middleton, 297
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 331
Musil, Robert, 37, 183, 236; The Man without Qualities, 236–7 Mussolini, Benito, 273 Myrdal, Gunnar: An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, 390–1, 423, 458, 644, 654–5
Nabis, Les (group), 59
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita, 429–30
Nachtsheim, Hans, 309–10
Nagasaki, 387, 401, 729
Nagel, Thomas, 701; Mortal Questions, 673; The View from Nowhere, 673–4
Naipaul, Sir Vidia S., 711; A House for Mr Biswas and other tides, 712; travel books, 762–3
Nambu, Yoichiro, 745
Narayan, R. K., 709
Narborough, Leicestershire, 682–3
Nash, Ogden, 218
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 567, 737
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, 729
National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC, 657
National Organization of Women, 431, 524
Needham, Joseph, 577
Negro peoples: appearance in Africa, 556–7; see also US minorities, racial neighborhood effect (education), 519
Neruda, Pablo, 334, 706
Neue Freie Presse (Vienna), 44–5
Neugebauer, Otto, 352
Neumann, Franz, 223, 225, 360
Neumann, Heinz, 413
Neumann, Johann (or John) von, 102, 363, 507
Neumann, Sigmund, 223
Neurath, Otto, 180, 235–6
Nevinson, C. R. W, 154
New Republic (periodical), 388
New School for Social Research, New York, 354
Newton, Sir Isaac, 21–2, 99, 602, 743; Principia Mathematica, 99
New Vienna Daily, 57
New York: art movement in, 85–6; buildings, 80, 82, 86, 331
New York Native (journal), 658
New York Times, 96–7, 665
New York World’s Fair (1939), 327
New Yorker (periodical), 211, 217–18, 504–5, 520, 582
New Zealand, universities, 73
Nicholson, Virginia, 348
Niebuhr, Helmut Rheinhaid, 80
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Conrad follows, 48; death, 65; and fascism, 234; French discover, 408; Hofmannsthal and, 30; influence, 39–40, 55, 90, 135; logical-positivist reaction against, 235; Nordau reads, 43; Picasso influenced by, 61; relations with Rilke, 227; Spengler influenced by, 171
Nijinska, Romola, 358
Nijinsky, Vaslav, 130–1
Nixon, Richard M., 568, 644–5
Nolde, Emil, 163, 222, 301, 312–13; Years of Struggle, 301
