New York in the '50s (56 page)

air-raid drills,
82–84
,
88–89

Aldo's,
275

Aldridge, John,
129

Algonquin Hotel,
277

Allen, Red,
298–99

Allen, Woody,
47
,
313

Alpert, Richard,
173

Amato Opera,
5
,
196

American
,
51

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
252
,
255

American Heritage
,
284

American Psycho
(Ellis),
147

Amram, David,
7
,
13
,
111
,
130
,
218–19
,
251
,
303–4
,
308
,
309
,
318
,
332
,
340

anarchism,
82
,
83

Anderson, Sherwood:
A Story Teller's Story
,
18

Anna Christie
(play),
16

anticommunism,
6
,
15
,
19
,
81
,
247–64

apartment sharing,
56–58
,
122–25
,
156
; and sexual relations,
226–28
,
229

Ariès, Philippe:
The Hour of Our Death
,
193

Arledge, Roone,
36

Army-McCarthy hearings,
257–58

Arnett, Peter,
331

Astrachan, Sam,
32
,
39–40
,
45
,
46
,
47
,
72
,
79
,
105
,
109
,
114
,
125
,
160
,
198
,
337
;
An End to Dying
,
32
,
161

Atlantic, The
: DW writes for,
39
,
175
,
336
; “Psychiatry in American Life,”
219

Auden, W. H.,
248

Baez, Joan,
313

Bagley, Dick,
140

Bain, Myrna,
267

Baker, Chet,
299–300

Baldwin, James,
5
,
110–11
,
114
,
126
,
136–40
,
164
,
245
,
283
,
289
,
324–25
,
326
;
Another Country
,
324
; DW meets,
136–40
;
The Fire Next Time
,
112
;
Giovanni's Room
,
138
,
150
;
Go Tell It on the Mountain
,
138
,
180
;
Notes of a Native Son
,
7
,
137
,
138
; “Sonny's Blues,”
110

Bandler, Dr. Bernard,
225

Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones),
111
,
126
,
187
,
238
,
312

Barbour, Malcolm,
43–44
,
45

Barnard Bulletin
,
40

Barnard College,
30–31
,
40
; panty raids at,
206–7

Barnes, Djuna,
118

bars,
126
,
129–30
,
180
.
See also
White Horse Tavern

Bartelme, Betty,
12
,
78
,
85

Basie, Count,
300

Bay of Pigs invasion,
272

beards,
121

Beatles,
2
,
270
,
277
,
318
,
334

beats,
5
,
41
,
42
,
138
,
141
,
160–94
; attacks on,
165–67
,
178–81
; fashion as rebellion,
168
,
170–71
; origin of name,
162–63
,
167

Beauvoir, Simone de,
245

Beck, Rosemarie,
152

Bellitt, Ben,
93

Bellow, Saul,
286
,
289

Benét, Stephen Vincent,
248

Benson, Lee,
39

Berger, Judah L.,
39
,
46

Berle, A. A.,
272

Bernard DeVoto fellowship,
154

Bernays, Ann,
337

Bernstein, Art (“the Rug”),
337

Berryman, John,
25
,
187

Bibb, Leon,
313

Birdland,
300
,
307

birth control,
see
contraception

Black Power,
147

blacks,
xiii
,
54
,
55
,
91
,
111–12
,
113–14
,
137
,
334

Blake, Marie,
200
,
214

Blake, William,
182
,
183

Blakey, Art,
311

Bodenheim (poet),
43–44

Bogan, Louise,
150

bohemianism,
42
,
75
,
84–85
,
117–18
,
121
,
122
,
126
,
140
,
141
,
168
,
229

Bone, Robert,
131

book review writing,
69

Boston,
20

Boston Globe
,
304

Bourjaily, Vance,
129
,
146
,
277
,
282
;
The End of My Life
,
129
,
282

Bowery,
72
,
164

Boyle, Kay,
239

Bozell, L. Brent,
262
,
266

Brando, Marlon,
246
,
278

Braziller, George,
150

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference,
153–54
,
284

Breslin, Jimmy,
146
,
297

Brinnin, John Malcolm,
128
;
Dylan Thomas in America
,
128

Broadway theater,
6
,
16
,
21
,
157
,
276

Brooklyn,
22
,
154

Brooklyn Tablet
,
81

Brower, Ann,
159
,
284

Brower, Brock,
21
,
142
,
146–47
,
159
,
197
,
284
,
289
,
291–94
; “Hiss Without the Case,”
291–92
,
293
;
The Late, Great Creature
,
291

Brower, Millicent,
143

Brown, James Oliver,
62
,
329

Brown, Rosellen,
31

Broyard, Anatole: “Portrait of a Hipster,”
171

Brubeck, Dave,
305

Bryant, Roy,
64

Buber, Martin,
80

Buckley, William F., Jr.,
5
,
60
,
61
,
146
,
260–62
,
265
,
266
,
267
,
268
,
269
,
291
,
296
,
306
,
331
,
338
; friendship with Kempton,
261–62
;
McCarthy and His Enemies
,
262

Burger, Knox,
280
,
323
,
339

Burnham, James,
261

Burroughs, William,
148
,
175
,
183
,
186–87
;
Naked Lunch
,
183
,
224

Bushel, Judge Hyman,
83

cabaret cards,
313–14

Caesar and Cleopatra
(play),
16

Café Bohemia,
303
,
304
,
311

Café Brittany,
42–43

Calder, Alexander,
120

California
,
294

Call Me Madam
(play),
6
,
16

Capote, Truman,
165
,
166
,
245
,
246

Caron, Leslie,
198

Carr, Lucien,
191

Cary, Joyce,
277

Casals, Pablo,
265

Castro, Fidel,
245–47
,
272
,
273

Catholic Worker
,
73
,
74
,
75
,
76
,
77
,
78

Catholic Worker movement,
5
,
7–8
,
73–90
,
92
,
131
,
168
,
196
; civil defense protest,
82–84
,
88–89
; farm on Staten Island,
87
; Friday night meetings,
79–80
,
85

Cavett, Dick,
313

Cedar Tavern,
130
,
180

Central Plaza,
299

Chambers, Whittaker,
29
,
61
,
260–61
,
293
;
Witness
,
25

Chapman, Bill,
61
,
198–200

China,
271

Christine's restaurant,
188

Christy, June,
195
,
298

Chrystie Street house,
76
,
86
.
See also
Catholic Worker movement

Chumley's,
116–17
,
122
,
136
,
196

Circle in the Square,
5
,
120
,
157
,
303
,
313

Citizen Kane
(film),
216

City Lights Bookstore,
178

civil rights movement,
112
,
113–14
,
139
,
326

Clancy, Bill,
132

Clancy Brothers,
81
,
127
,
130
,
263
,
313

Clark, Shirley,
110

Claudel, Paul,
79

Clemons, Walter:
The Poison Tree
,
326

Clooney, Betty,
58

Cochrane, Rex,
17
,
18
,
20

Cocteau, Jean,
150

Cogley, John,
132

Cohen, Maxwell,
314

Cohn, Al,
307

Cohn, Roy,
260
,
262

Cold War,
251

Cole, Bill,
171
,
283
,
295
,
305

Coleman, Ornette,
301

Coles, Robert,
77
;
Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion
,
77

Colette,
150

Collins, Bob,
326

Coltrane, John,
307
,
309
,
310
,
311
,
313

Columbia Daily Spectator
,
1
,
37–38
,
206
,
247
,
248
,
249
,
250
,
251
,
259
; DW joins,
38–39
,
45

Columbia Review, The
,
27
,
40
,
45
,
47

Columbia University: appeal of urban campus,
19–23
,
24
; and Communist witch-hunts,
251–52
,
254–55
,
256–58
; DW at,
1
,
4
,
5
,
13
,
19
,
24–47
; learning about sex at,
202–8
; reputation of,
15
; women at,
30–31

Commentary
,
3
,
63
,
105
,
132
,
141
,
165
,
173
,
178
,
328
,
329
; DW writes for,
329–30

Commonweal
,
132
,
263

Communists,
19
,
140
,
141
,
247–50
,
258
,
259
,
263
.
See also
anti-Communists

Congdon, Don,
281

Connell, Evan,
241

conservatives,
261–63
,
266–67
,
270
; DW writes on,
329

Conservatives (teenage gang),
102–4
,
109
,
110

Constant Wife, The
(play),
16

contraception,
225
,
232–34
,
238
,
240–41

Cook, Dawn,
218
,
232

Cook, Donald,
217
,
223
,
225
,
232
,
241
,
242

Cool World, The
(film),
110

Cooper, Art,
337

Cornell, Katherine,
16

Cowley, Malcolm,
75–76
,
122
,
159
;
Exile's Return
,
76
,
84
,
322

Crane, Hart,
311

Crane, Stephen: “The Open Boat,”
325

Croce, Arlene,
69

Cronin, Hume,
16

Cruz, Boppo (pseudonym),
99–101

Cuba,
245–47
,
272
,
273

cummings, e. e.,
6
,
116
,
118–19
,
120

Cummings, Marion,
118

Curtiss, Minna,
66

Daily Worker
,
263