I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like (31 page)

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, 287–88

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, 195–96

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

 

Safire, William, 16, 94, 104

St. Cyr, Lili, 214

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 138–39

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, 258–59

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, 202–3, 224, 253

Shales, Tom, 250

Sharif, Omar, 289

Shaw, George Bernard, 36, 37, 107, 120, 121, 135, 136, 154, 197, 253

Shaw, Henry Wheeler,
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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, 256–57

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 307

Sondheim, Stephen, 248

Sontag, Susan, 204, 215

Sophocles, 198, 200–201

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, 140–41

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, 220–21, 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., 296–97

Styron, William, 294

Sullivan, Arthur, 87–88

Susann, Jacqueline, 87, 185

Swift, Jonathan, 57, 136, 257, 277

Sykes, Wanda, 76, 215

Szasz, Thomas, 57

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert, 107

 

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, 276–77

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 97, 155

Terence, 35

Teresa, Mother, 37, 176, 213

Thackeray, William

Makepeace, 57–58, 234–35

Thespis, 69

Thoreau, Henry David, 6, 22–23, 37–38, 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, 91–92, 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

 

Ueland, Brenda, 185

Unruh, Jesse, 258

Updike, John, 15, 71, 136, 216, 314

Upham, Gladys, 155

Ustinov, Peter, 33, 198, 252

 

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, 198–99

Vining, Elizabeth Gray, 60–62

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

 

Wagner, Jane, 77, 115

Wallach, Eli, 246

Walpole, Horace, 294

Walters, Barbara, 99

Walton, Izaak, 289–90

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, 79–80, 219

Webster, John, 180–81

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, 296–97, 309

White, Theodore H., 272

White, William Allen, 98

Whittington, Harry, 5–6

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, 53–54

Wotton, Henry, 314

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 240, 245

Wright Brothers, 83

 

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

 

Zinsser, William, 310

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