Mary McCarthy's Collected Memoirs: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, How I Grew, and Intellectual Memoirs (86 page)

88
Wilson’s contribution to the first number was a chapter from his forthcoming book,
The Triple Thinkers
(1938). Called “Flaubert’s Politics” in
Partisan Review
, it explores Flaubert’s relationship to the French Commune.

CHAPTER THREE

90
“Vox exhaurit in faucibus”:
Speaking makes the throat dry.

96–97
Margaret De Silver
was a locomotive heiress, married to the anarchist
Carlo Tresca
.

98
I only wanted to talk to him:
McCarthy’s account of her second visit to Trees is belied by the letter she wrote Wilson on November 30, 1937, following an affectionate note from him inviting her back after her first visit. “I am all shaken up. It’s pleasant but painful,” she wrote, saying she would like to come up again but would need some time to plan it. “Maybe I will telephone you soon if you want me to. Love to you, too,” it ended.

100
Hecate County
refers to
Memoirs of Hecate County
, a collection of stories by Edmund Wilson published in 1946.

101
What is
faintly Kantian
here is the notion of acting against one’s inclinations on behalf of a higher duty. But there is something Catholic in the view of marriage as absolution for the sin of having slept with someone out of drunkenness. McCarthy’s
other reasons
for marrying Wilson may be taken as the material reasons.

102
McCarthy’s ancestors included her Jewish grandmother on her mother’s side and her Irish Catholic grandparents in Minneapolis, but her
feeling of coming home
was stirred most often by her identification with her Protestant grandfather, Harold Preston, in Seattle.

107
Grotesque!
This testimony of Mary’s jealousy of Margaret Marshall, quoted from the same letter in which she promised Wilson to come back, suggests again that McCarthy was more attracted to Wilson than she allows in her memoir.

113
agents of the GPU:
spies for Stalin’s secret police.

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Abel, Lionel,
68
,
84
,
121

Adams, J. Donald,
11
,
30

Adams, Léonie,
76
,
103
,
123

Adler, Stella,
5

Agence Havas,
3
,
36

Agrarians,
24

Alden, Hortense,
22
,
48

Aldrich, Maddie.
See
Rand, Maddie Aldrich

Aldrich, Mrs. (Maddie’s mother),
14

Algonquin Hotel,
17
,
119

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
53
,
57
,
96–97

American Mercury, The
,
29

Amlie, Tom,
27

Anderson, Maxwell,
1

Angoff, Charles,
29

“Anti-Climax” (Johnsrud),
4–5

Anti-Stalinism,
24
,
67
,
90
,
122

Aquavella, Nick,
11

Arendt, Hannah,
96

Ashforth, Albert B.,
11–12
,
44

“Ash Wednesday” (Eliot),
77

Astoria
(Irving),
7

Auden, W. H.,
74

Awake and Sing
(Odets),
4

Axel’s Castle
(Wilson),
90

Balabanov, Angelica,
65

Barber, Samuel,
80

Bard College,
54–55
,
119
,
120

Barth, Alan,
15
,
44
,
61

Bartholomew Fair
(Jonson),
56

Beekman Place apartments

Johnsruds’,
8
,
11—12
,
20
,
25
,
44
,
48

McCarthy and Rahv’s,
67
,
70
,
72

Belloc, Hilaire,
28

Bellow, Saul,
14

Best, Marshall,
20
,
42–43

Biberman, Abner,
3

Bible,
77–78

Bingham, Alfred,
16–17

Bishop, Elizabeth,
13
,
48
,
118–19

Black, George,
43
,
49–51
,
94

See also
“Man in the Brooks

Brothers Shirt, The”

Black, Hugo,
84

Blair, Mary,
111

Blough, Frani,
5
,
7
,
13
,
20
,
38
,
48
,
53
,
72
,
116

Blue Juniata
(Cowley),
7

Blum, Léon,
2

Bogan, Louise,
123

Bolshevism,
85–86
,
123–24

Book and Magazine Guild,
65

Bookman
,
24

Boston, Lyon and Barbara Hudnut,
20

Breed, Alan and Rosilla,
20

Bregman, Abbie and Kit,
67
,
70
,
72

Brevoort Hotel,
84
,
120

Britannica
,
13
,
110

Broadwater, Bowden,
100
,
110
,
120

Broene, Miss (McCarthy’s coworker at Covici-Friede),
64
,
65
,
99

Broom
,
16

Broun, Heywood,
16–17
,
119

Browder, Earl,
57

Brown, Lois,
44

Bukharin, N. I.,
85

Canby, Henry Seidel,
29

Canby, Margaret,
100
,
111

Cantwell, Robert,
7–8
,
118

Carleton Gallery,
51
,
118

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand,
26

Chamberlain, John,
29

Chambers, Whittaker,
7

Chaplin, Charlie,
87

Chapman, Chanler,
14

Charmed Life, A
(McCarthy),
98–99
,
101

Civic Repertory Theatre,
3
,
116

Clara (Johnsruds’ maid),
5
,
44
,
117

Clark, Ambrose,
51

Clark, Eleanor,
74
,
122

Clark, Eunice,
15
,
16–17
,
19
,
20
,
63
,
74
,
82
,
114
,
119

Claudius the God
(Graves),
28

Clurman, Harold,
5
,
117

Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky,
4
,
65

McCarthy as member of,
41–42
,
57–59

Common Sense
,
16
,
22
,
119

Communism,
1–3
,
6
,
17
,
18
,
21
,
26
,
27
,
28
,
40

Communist Manifesto, The
(Marx and Engels),
26
,
28

Communist Party,
2–3
,
5
,
7
,
9
,
15
,
18
,
22–23
,
24
,
39–40
,
65
,
66
,
77
,
82
,
92
,
116
,
121
,
122

Company She Keeps, The
(McCarthy),
36
,
60
.
See also specific stories in

Conroy, Jack,
24
,
120

Con Spirito
,
118

Covici, Pat,
63–65

Covici-Friede,
63–66
,
75–76
,
88
,
99
,
106

Cowley, Malcolm,
6–10
,
117

Craig, Sam,
39–40

Crawford, Cheryl,
117

“Cruel and Barbarous Treatment” (McCarthy),
35–36

“Culture and the Crisis” (Wilson),
121

Da Silva, Howard,
3

Depression,
13
,
22–23
,
82

De Silver, Margaret,
96
,
125

Dewey, John,
4

Dimitrov, Georgi M.,
2

Dodd, Martha,
73

Dodge, Mrs. Hartley,
51

Dos Passos, John and Katy,
111

Dupee, Fred (F. W.),
18
,
71
,
81
,
86
,
119
,
122

As
Partisan Review
editor,
24
,
67
,
76
,
83
,
89
,
91–93
,
95

East End Avenue apartment,
74–75
,
86–87

Eastman, Max,
87
,
95
,
124

Ebro River,
72
,
121

Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, The
(Marx),
72

Eisler, Hans,
2
,
115

Eitingon, Bess,
4
,
6
,
116

Eitingon, Motty,
4–5
,
6
,
97
,
116

Eliot, T. S.,
77

Enjoyment of Poetry
(Eastman),
87

Exile’s Return
(Cowley),
7
,
117

Farrell, James T.,
22–24
,
26
,
48
,
49
,
57
,
59
,
64
,
65

Faulkner, William,
25

Fearing, Kenneth,
7
,
118

February Hill
(Lincoln),
28

Ferguson, Otis (“Oat”),
8
,
9–10

Flaubert, Gustave,
90
,
125

“Flaubert’s Politics” (Wilson),
125

Formalism,
84–85
,
123–24

Fortune
,
15
,
18
,
19
,
66
,
119

Freud, Sigmund,
26

From the Tsar to Lenin
,
87

Fugitives,
24

Gallup, George,
21

Gay Street apartment,
41
,
47–49
,
55
,
59
,
62
,
67

McCarthy’s sexual affairs at,
61–63

Gellhorn, Martha,
73
,
121

“Genial Host, The” (McCarthy),
60

George, Mrs. Robert Latham,
4

Gide, André,
75
,
90

Gilfillan, Lauren,
8–10