Read Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century Online
Authors: Peter Watson
Tags: #World History, #20th Century, #Retail, #Intellectual History, #History
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
Noll, Richard, 760
Nordau, Max, 43–4, 48, 172
Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount, 339
Nozick, Robert, 548–9, 644, 673;
Anarchy, State, and Utopia,
550
Nureyev, Rudolf, 627, 663
Nussbaum, Martha:
Cultivating Humanity,
732
O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 721
Oh! Calcutta!
(stage musical), 529
Ohain, Hans von, 269–70
O’Hanlon, Redmond:
Joseph Conrad and Charles Darwin,
49
O’Hara, Frank, 512
O’Hara, John, 218
Okigbo, Christopher, 713
Okri, Ben, 713
Okunev, Ivan Vasilievich, 315–16
Oldenburg, Claes, 511
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, 485–7, 607, 688
Oliphant, Mark, 256, 366, 392–3, 396
Oliver, George, 103
Olivier, Laurence, 640
Olympic Games: 1904, St Louis, 112; 1936, Berlin, 329 & n
O’Neill, Ella, 345
O’Neill, Eugene, 216–17, 345–7, 717–18
Only One Earth
(report), 583
Ophüls, Max, 637
Oppenheimer, Frank, 401
Oppenheimer, Robert, 401, 507
Opportunity
(magazine), 282
Orbison, Roy, 457
Orpen, Sir William, 173–4
Ortega y Gasset, José, 331, 447, 599, 767;
Revolt of the Masses,
291–2
Orwell, George (Eric Blair), 186, 285–8, 334, 337, 346, 464, 466, 472, 768;
Animal Farm,
386–7, 413, 472;
Down and Out in Paris and London,
286;
Nineteen Eighty-Four,
472–3, 481;
The Road to Wigan Pier,
287
Osborn, Henry Fairchild, 206
Osborne, John:
Look Back in Anger,
463, 466, 470
Otis Brothers (elevator manufacturers), 81n
Oud, J. P., 224
Ovington, Mary, 108–9, 111
Owen, Wilfred, 145, 154–6
Owens, Jesse, 329
Ozenfant, Amédée, 355
Pach, Walter, 127
Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, 553
Packard, Vance, 445–6
Pallot, James, 639
Pangaea, 122
Panofsky, Erwin, 223, 305–6, 355, 360
Pappenheim, Bertha (‘Anna O’), 13, 55
Pargellis, Andrew, 749
Paris: cafes in, 411–12; Dada in, 163–4; intellectual and cultural life in (‘Left Bank’), 411–20; Picasso in, 23–5; rebuilt by Haussman, 52; Universal Exhibition (1900), 24; universities in, 627;
see also
Pompidou Centre
Park, Robert E., 216, 281–2, 390
Parker, Dorothy, 217
Parkes, Andrew, 97
Parks, Rosa, 458, 524
Parsons, Talcott, 629
Passchendaele, battle of (Great War), 146
Pasternak, Boris, 322–4
Pater, Walter, 5
Paterson, Annabel: Shakespeare and the Popular Voice,
717
Paul VI, Pope, 580
Pauli, Wolfgang, 258–9
Pauling, Linus, 266–8, 343–4, 374, 477–80, 615n
Pauling, Peter, 480
Pavlov, Ivan, 318
Paz, Octavio, 706, 763
Peano, Giuseppe, 101
Pearl Harbor, 354, 371, 397
Pechstein, Max, 301
Peebles, P.J. E., 569–70
Peierls, Rudolf, 392–3, 396
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 75–6
Penguin Books, 337–40
Penrose, Roger, 271, 701–2, 740
Penthouse
(periodical), 529
Penzias, Arno, 569–70
Perelman, S. J., 218
Perkins, Anthony, 490–1, 663
Perkins, David, 196
Perls, Fritz, 664
Peru, 118–20
Perutz, Max, 267, 481
Pestalozzi, Johann, 78
Peter, Paul and Mary, 523
Pettigrew, Thomas, 534
Pevsner, Anton, 164
Piaf, Edith, 414
Piaget, Jean, 500, 629, 631, 634
Piano, Renzo, 621–2
Picabia, Francis:
Pensées sans langage,
164
Picasso, Conchita, 24
Picasso, Pablo: Apollinaire and, 129; artistic career, 58–63; collaborates with Satie on
Parade,
203, 257; designs sets for Diaghilev, 130, 199; Gide and, 201; influence on Rilke, 227; James Joyce evokes, 193; in Paris, 23–5, 59, 411; refuses to emigrate to USA, 353; studies Munch, 35; withdraws money from Paris bank (1914), 144;
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,
58–9, 61–4, 131;
Guernica,
332, 335–7
Pickford, Mary (
née
Gladys Smith), 88–9
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 350, 355, 510
Pigou, Arthur, 383
Pincus, Gregory, 428–9
Pinker, Steven, 692, 695
Pinter, Harold, 418
Pirandello, Luigi, 191, 201, 412; Henry IV, 186, 191–2, 195; Six Characters in Search of an Author, 191 Pirsig, Robert: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,
597–8
Piscator, Erwin, 229, 231, 354
Pistor, Baroness Fanny, 33
Pitchfork, Colin, 683
Pitman, Walter III, 553
Pius X, Pope and St:
Editae
(encyclical), 68;
Pascendi Dominici Gregus
(encyclical), 67–8
Pius XII, Pope:
Humani Generis
(encyclical), 575–6
Pizarro, Gonzalo, 118
Planck, Karl, 145
Planck, Max: on conservatism of scientists, 489; criticises Mach, 37; discussed at St Louis World Fair, 112; family background and values, 5, 20, 757; German education, 74; on light behaving as particle, 260; and quantum physics, 21–3, 29, 36, 93, 95, 134, 258; Schlick studies under, 235; Schrödinger succeeds, 373; son killed in war, 145
Plato, 380
Playboy
(periodical), 529
Playfair, Sir Nigel, 231
Ploetz, Alfred, 242
Plumb, J. H., 220
Podhoretz, Norman:
Making It
, 600
Poincaré, Jules-Henri, 94, 112, 132
Polanyi, Karl, 447, 471
Polanyi, Michael, 183, 471–2, 488, 596;
Science, Faith and Society,
471
Polkinghorne, John:
Beyond Science,
767
Pollock, Friedrich, 225