Renard, Jules, 174
Renoir, Jean, 238, 249
Reston, James, 270
Rice, Anne, 95
Rice, Condoleezza, 276
Rich, Frank, 82
Richards, Ann, 95
Richardson, Ralph, 237
Richter, Jean Paul, 105, 112
Rickey, Branch, 287
Rickles, Don, 91
Rieux, Virginie des, 188
Rigg, Diana, 96
Rivarol, Antoine de, 146
Rizzuto, Phil, 275
Robbins, Tom, 174
Robinson, Edward Arlington, 55, 133, 174
Robinson, Edward G., 95, 241
Robinson, Jackie, 287
Rochefoucauld, François de la, 150, 170, 230
Rock, Chris, 75
Roddick, Andy, 287â88
Roeben, Scott, 213
Rogers, Will, 97
Romberg, Sigmund, 174
Rooney, Andy, 133, 287
Rooney, Mickey, 213
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 36, 90, 261, 266, 267
Roosevelt, Theodore, II, 288
Roosevelt, Theodore “Teddy,” 29, 81, 91, 247, 270, 276, 288
Rorem, Ned, 110
Rosenbaum, George, 105
Ross, Lillian, 304
Rossini, Gioachino Antonio, 133
Rostand, Edmond, 111
Rove, Karl, 264
Rowland, Helen, 153, 174, 195â96
Royko, Mike, 98, 288
Rubin, Jerry, 216
Ruby, Jack, 85
Runyon, Damon, 133
Ruskin, John, 95, 134
Russell, Bertrand, 36, 55, 168, 174
Russell, Rosalind, 130, 249
Russo, Richard, 134
Ruth, Babe, 241, 281
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Safire, William, 16, 94, 104
St. Cyr, Lili, 214
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 138â39
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 4
Saki (H. H. Munro), 196
Samuels, Jim, 76
Sand, George, 233
Sandburg, Carl, 114, 134, 196
Sanders, George, 249, 250
Sanders, Harland David “Colonel Sanders,” 260
Santayana, George, 55, 114
Sappho, 175
Sarandon, Susan, 288
Sarton, May, 56, 153
Sassoon, Vidal, 204
Satir, Virginia, 196
Savile, George, 75, 150, 270
Sawyer, Robert J., 115
Sayers, Dorothy L., 12
Scarf, Maggie, 233
Schickel, Richard, 112, 154
Schlafly, Phyllis, 196
Schlesinger, John, 250
Schmidt, Joe, 135
Schopenauer, Arthur, 134, 233, 271
Schorr, Daniel, 240
Schreiner, Olive, 175
Schroeder, Patricia, 258â59
Schrum, Bob, 266
Schulz, Charles M., 119, 135, 196
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 90
Schweitzer, Albert, 36
Scribner, Charles, Jr., 36
Scully, Vin, 288, 289
Segovia, Andres, 113
Seinfeld, Jerry, 65, 76, 154, 214
Seneca, 135, 222, 233
Senn, J. P., 233
Serling, Rod, 308
Sevareid, Eric, 95
Shakespeare, William, 9, 14, 16, 23, 135, 158, 175, 176, 180, 197, 202â3, 224, 253
Shales, Tom, 250
Sharif, Omar, 289
Shaw, George Bernard, 36, 37, 107, 120, 121, 135, 136, 154, 197, 253
Shaw, Henry Wheeler,
see
Billings, Josh
Sheehan, George, 126
Sheehy, Gail, 56, 250
Sheen, Fulton J., 136
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 185
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 313
Shelton, Ron, 288
Shenstone, William, 307, 313
Shepard, Sam, 176
Shepherd, Cybill, 214
Sherman, Allen, 214
Shields, Carol, 136
Shoemaker, Willie, 286
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, 28
Sidorova, Valentina, 279
Signoret, Simone, 197, 250
Simmons, Curt, 289
Simon, John, 82, 96
Simpson, James, 104
Sinatra, Frank, 176
Sinbad, 154
Sinclair, Andrew, 5
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 214
Sinise, Gary, 250
Skabichevsky, Alexander, 297
Skinner, B. F., 56
Smalley, Gary, 215
Smith, Adam, 154
Smith, Albert, 114
Smith, Bessie, 202
Smith, Dodie, 197
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 56, 234
Smith, Sydney, 12, 56, 96, 198, 307
Smith, Walter “Red,” 307
Snow, Carrie, 76
Socrates, 108, 115
Solon, 256â57
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 307
Sondheim, Stephen, 248
Sontag, Susan, 204, 215
Sophocles, 198, 200â201
Southey, Robert, 297, 306
Spark, Muriel, 234
Spielberg, Steven, 90
Spock, Benjamin, 198
Squires, Livia, 153
Stallone, Sylvester, 94, 279, 289
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 251
Stanley, Edward (Lord Derby), 89
Stark, Freya, 198
Steele, Danielle, 314
Steeves, Tim, 215
Stegner, Wallace, 147
Stein, Gertrude, 293, 295
Steinbeck, John, 57, 294
Steinberg, David, 96, 251, 264
Steinberg, Saul, 107
Steinem, Gloria, 8, 140â41
Stendhal (pseudonym of Marie Henri Beyle), 155, 176, 271, 304, 307
Stern, Judith, 76
Sterne, Laurence, 307
Stevens, Wallace, 308
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 37, 44, 116, 142, 183, 220â21, 234, 306, 308
Stewart, Jon, 272
Stone, Irving, 96
Stoppard, Tom, 133, 234
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 164
Strauss, Robert, 251
Stravinsky, Igor, 243
Streisand, Barbra, 96
Strunk, William, Jr., 296â97
Styron, William, 294
Sullivan, Arthur, 87â88
Susann, Jacqueline, 87, 185
Swift, Jonathan, 57, 136, 257, 277
Sykes, Wanda, 76, 215
Szasz, Thomas, 57
Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert, 107
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Tagore, Rabindranath, 37, 103, 216
Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de, 93
Tan, Amy, 189
Taylor, Elizabeth, 91
Taylor, Jeremy, 161, 171
Temple, Shirley, 97
Tenet, George, 276â77
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 97, 155
Terence, 35
Teresa, Mother, 37, 176, 213
Thackeray, William
Makepeace, 57â58, 234â35
Thespis, 69
Thoreau, Henry David, 6, 22â23, 37â38, 58, 109, 155, 176, 271, 293, 308
Thorn, John, 290
Thurber, James, 76, 97, 235
Thurman, Howard, 38, 115
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 39
Toffler, Alvin, 114
Tolstoy, Leo, 41, 176, 304
Tomlin, Lily, 76, 115, 216
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 182
Towne, Charles Hanson, 155
Tracy, Spencer, 148
Traver, Robert, 281, 308
Trollope, Anthony, 198
Trudeau, Garry, 271
Truffaut, François, 252
Truman, Harry S, 91â92, 258, 271
Trump, Donald, 98
Turgenev, Ivan, 162, 304
Turner, Lana, 245
Twain, Mark, 38, 45, 58, 62, 64, 76, 97, 309, 314
Tyler, Robin, 91
Tynan, Kenneth, 216, 308, 314
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Ueland, Brenda, 185
Unruh, Jesse, 258
Updike, John, 15, 71, 136, 216, 314
Upham, Gladys, 155
Ustinov, Peter, 33, 198, 252
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Valenti, Jack, 252
Valéry, Paul, 1, 106
Valois, Marguerite de, 161
Van Buren, Abigail “Dear Abby,” 235
Van Doren, Mark, 63
Van Gogh, Theo, 177
Van Gogh, Vincent, 58, 177
Velez, Lupe, 155
Victoria, Queen of England, 186, 272
Vidal, Gore, 198
Vidor, King, 198â99
Vining, Elizabeth Gray, 60â62
Virgil, 161
Viscott, David, 177
Vitale, Tony, 98
Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet), 34, 38, 98, 115, 136, 177, 216, 271, 309
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 58, 314
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Wagner, Jane, 77, 115
Wallach, Eli, 246
Walpole, Horace, 294
Walters, Barbara, 99
Walton, Izaak, 289â90
Wanderone, Rudolf “Minnesota Fats,” 285
Ward, William Arthur, 38
Ware, Eugene F., 136
Washington, George, 156, 254, 256, 272
Watson, Tom, 290
Waugh, Evelyn, 309
Wavell, Archibald, 177
Webster, Charles L., 97
Webster, Daniel, 79â80, 219
Webster, John, 180â81
Welch, Raquel, 258
Weld, William, 94
Welles, Orson, 98, 244, 252
Wells, H. G., 112
Wertmüller, Lina, 66
Wesley, John, 39
West, Jessamyn, 217
West, Mae, 69, 70, 111, 177, 207, 217
Westheimer, Ruth, 217
Westrum, Wes, 290
Wexler, Arnie, 290
Wharton, Edith, 39, 84, 137, 191
Whitaker, Carl A., 199
White, E. B., 58, 77, 296â97, 309
White, Theodore H., 272
White, William Allen, 98
Whittington, Harry, 5â6
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 177
Wilde, Oscar, 77, 85, 87, 186, 199
Wilder, Billy, 94, 238, 253
Wilder, Thornton, 199, 253, 295
Will, George F., 98, 291
Williams, Bern, 105
Williams, Ralph Vaughan, 86
Williams, Robin, 77, 250, 272, 280
Williams, Tennessee, 95, 98, 137
Wilmot, John, 178
Wilson, Earl, 253
Wilson, Flip, 32
Wilson, Harold, 272
Wilson, Richard, 99
Wilson, Willie, 291
Wilson, Woodrow, 39, 93, 267, 273
Winfrey, Oprah, 137, 291
Winkler, Henry, 156
Winn, Mary Day, 217
Winters, Jonathan, 135
Winters, Shelley, 237
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 59
Wodehouse, P. G., 78, 156, 199, 235
Woodward, Bob, 276
Woolf, Virginia, 59, 137, 310
Woollcott, Alexander, 82, 99
Wordsworth, William, 53â54
Wotton, Henry, 314
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 240, 245
Wright Brothers, 83
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Yalom, Irvin D., 221
Yeats, William Butler, 178, 222, 248
Yerby, Frank, 310
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 13, 99, 137
York, Peter, 114
Young, Edward, 39, 113, 235
Youngman, Henny, 78
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Zinsser, William, 310
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