New York in the '50s (60 page)

New York Post
,
4
,
51
,
60
,
63
,
179
,
207
,
250
,
259–60
,
261
,
287

New York Review of Books, The
,
260

New York State Emergency Defense Act,
82

New York Times
,
36
,
37
,
123
,
252
,
293
,
294
,
295
,
325–26
; ad on Castro,
245–46
; Columbia correspondent for,
37–38
; reviews Kerouac,
161–62
,
163
,
164

New York Times Book Review, The
,
156
,
178

New York World-Telegram
,
51

Nichols, Mary Perot,
20
,
119
,
126
,
130
,
142
,
196
,
222–23

Nick's,
299

Nieman fellowship: DW seeks and wins,
321
,
328
,
329
,
336

Nietzsche, F. W.,
30

“Night Beat” (TV),
275

Night of the Hunter
(film),
276

nihilism,
109–10
,
112–13

Nixon, Richard M.,
54
,
262
,
264
,
288

nonfiction writing,
287–97
; novels vs.,
288–89
,
293
.
See also
journalism

No Sun in Venice
(film),
301

novels: aspirations to write,
286
; films based on,
275
; vs. nonfiction,
288–89

Oberon, Merle,
285

Obolensky, Ivan,
269

obscenity trials,
179
,
183

O'Casey, Sean:
Red Roses for Me
,
200

O'Connor, Edwin,
69

Odetta,
318

O'Gorman, Ned,
8
,
32
,
78
,
79
,
87–88
,
196
,
339
;
Night of the Hammer
,
80

O'Hara, Frank: “The Day Lady Died,”
317–18

O'Hara, John,
276

Olivier, Laurence,
16

O'Neill, Eugene,
75
,
122
,
341

On the Bowery
(film),
140

Orlovsky, Lafcadio,
190
,
191

Orlovsky, Peter,
184
,
190
,
191

Ortega y Gasset, J.,
34

Orwell, George,
92
,
300

Ostrow, Seymour,
107–8

pacifism,
82–84

Pack, Robert,
31

Page, Geraldine,
5
,
120

Paglia, Camille,
238

Paine, Thomas,
200

Painter, Mary,
324
,
325

painters: bar of,
130
,
180
; and jazz,
307–8

pajama parties,
57
,
226

panty raids,
206–7

Paris Review, The
,
234
,
277

Parker, Charlie,
300
,
302
,
304
,
310

Parker, Dorothy,
239
,
265

Parmentel, Noel E., Jr.,
69
,
264
,
268–70
,
274

Parnassus Girls' Club,
57

Partisan Review
,
40
,
122
,
151
,
204
,
232–34
,
281
,
285

Patchin Place,
117–19

Patterson, Floyd,
295

Patton, Christine,
198–200
,
202
;
America's Runaways
,
199

Peace Corps,
265

Peacock coffehouse,
191–92

Peale, Norman Vincent,
93
,
94

Pentecostalism,
101–2

Peterson, Dorothy,
49

Phelps, Robert,
126
,
148–53
,
158
,
320
,
336
; as editor,
150

Phillips, William,
122
,
233
,
281

Picasso, Pablo:
Guernica
,
43

Playboy
,
106
,
286
,
289

“Playhouse Ninety” (TV),
275

playwrights,
276
.
See also
theater

Plimpton, George,
277

Podhoretz, Norman,
22
,
54
,
133
,
148
,
165
,
173
,
184
,
288–89
,
296–97
,
324
,
328
,
339
; “The Article as Art,”
288–89
;
Breaking Ranks
,
324
; on Ginsberg and beats,
41–42
,
178
,
179
,
184–86
,
187
,
188
; “The Know-Nothing Bohemians,”
178
,
184
;
Making It
,
325

Point of No Return
(play),
16

Poitier, Sidney,
157

Politics
,
60

politics,
244–64
; anticommunism,
6
,
15
,
19
,
81
,
247–64
; campaign of 1960,
264–66
; Catholic Worker movement,
5
,
7–8
,
73–90
,
92
,
131
,
168
,
196
; civil defense protest,
82–84
,
88–89
; civil rights movement,
112
,
113–14
,
139
,
326
; Columbia University and Communist witch-hunts,
251–52
,
254–55
,
256–58
; Communists,
19
,
140
,
141
,
247–50
,
258
,
259
,
263
; conservatives,
261–63
,
266–67
,
270
; liberalism,
245–47
,
255–60
,
261–63
,
266–67
,
270
; radical,
19
,
76
,
82
,
83
,
109–10
,
112–13
,
130–32

Pollet, Elizabeth,
156

Polsky, Ned,
171
,
221–22
,
340

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.,
5
,
291
,
295

Powell, Bud,
135
,
300

Pow Wow Group,
114

pregnancy,
226
,
234–38

Prescott, Orville,
162
,
163

presidential campaign of 1960,
264–66

Princeton Packet:
DW works for,
50–51
,
55–56
,
60
,
61
,
62

psilocybin,
172–73
,
174
,
175

psychiatry,
28
,
135–36
; and abortion,
235–36

psychoanalysis,
6
,
145
,
152
; DW undergoes,
152–53
,
208–25
,
271
,
320–21
,
322
,
323
,
341
; pervasive influence of,
208–11
,
215–25

Puerto Ricans,
91
.
See also
Spanish Harlem

Pulitzer Prize awards,
25
,
147
,
150
,
175
,
337

Pull My Daisy
(film),
7

Puzo, Mario,
68–69
;
Dark Arena
,
68
;
The Godfather
,
69

quiz show scandal,
275

racial relations,
54
,
55
,
111–12
,
137
,
139
,
140
,
169
,
324–25
,
334

radical politics,
19
,
76
,
82
,
83
,
109–10
,
112–13
,
130–32

Rahv, Philip,
234
,
285

Randolph, A. Philip,
112

Rawlings, John,
119–21
,
123

Reader's Digest
,
236

reading clubs,
277

Realist, The
,
332

Redbook
,
218
,
289

Reed, John,
55
,
61
,
63
,
71
,
122
,
123
,
138
,
341–42

Reporter, The
,
54
,
69
,
286
,
335

Rexroth, Kenneth,
167–68
,
170–71

Richmond, Jane,
40
,
41
,
55
,
238
,
240
,
281
,
339
,
341

Ricker, Bruce,
340

Ridge, Clayton,
15

Ridge, Mary,
15

Riesman, David,
83
;
The Lonely Crowd
,
2
,
83
,
287

Rikers Island,
95
,
97
,
101

Rinehart, Stanley,
147

Rivers, Larry,
7
,
130
,
188

Riverside Hospital,
95
,
97–99
,
101

Robards, Jason,
5
,
120

Rolling Stone
,
297

Rollins, Sonny,
111
,
303

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
58

Rorem, Ned,
150
,
151

Rosenfeld, Isaac,
289

Rosenthal, M. L.,
178
,
187
,
329

Rosset, Barney,
150

Roth, Philip:
Goodbye, Columbus
,
71
,
234
,
305
,
326

Rothko, Mark,
307
,
308

Rushing, Jimmy,
307

Russell, Helen,
80
,
86

Russell, Pee Wee,
299

Rustin, Bayard,
79
,
112
,
326

Sahl, Mort,
313

Saint Joan
(play),
16

Salinger, J. D.,
124
,
164
,
234
,
280–82
,
300
;
The Catcher in the Rye
,
6
,
180
,
278
,
280
,
281
,
282
; “Franny,”
220
,
234–35
;
Franny and Zooey
,
266
,
281
,
282

Salisbury, Harrison,
329
; reviews DW,
106

Salter, James,
149

Sandburg, Carl,
9

San Francisco,
20

San Remo,
5
,
44
,
129
,
130
,
136
,
162
,
163
,
196
,
311
,
340

Sartre, Jean-Paul,
245

Saturday Evening Post, The
,
328

Saturday Review, The
,
326

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.,
248

Scholastic
,
199

school integration,
112

Schuchmann, Bob,
267

Schwartz, Delmore,
187

Schwartz, Lynne Sharon,
9
,
22
,
31
,
339
;
Disturbances in the Field
,
31
;
Leaving Brooklyn
,
22

Scott, Hazel,
330

Seattle,
20

Seeger, Pete,
157

Senate Internal Security Committee,
251

Sexton, Anne,
156

sexual relations,
43
,
147
,
156–57
,
195–243
; advice columns,
199
; and career competitiveness,
238–40
; in college,
206–8
; contraception,
225–27
,
232–34
; dating,
197–202
,
231–32
; diaphragm,
232–34
,
238
,
240–41
; drinking and,
232
; at end of fifties,
332–33
; ethnicity and,
197–98
; homosexuals,
228
,
230
(
see also
homosexuals); Kinsey report,
204–5
; manuals,
242
; marriage-by-thirty stigma,
230
; masturbation,
202
,
205
; noncommittal affairs,
242–43
; NY anonymity and,
230–31
; orgasm,
222
,
241–43
; panty raids,
206–7
; Personal Living course at Columbia,
202–3
; pregnancy and abortion,
234–38
; promiscuity,
215
,
226–27
,
230–31
; and psychoanalysis,
205–25
; subterfuge and hypocrisy about,
227–30

Shakespeare & Company bookstore,
337

Shapiro, Harvey,
118
,
125
,
145
,
146
,
156
,
187
,
228
,
277
,
337
,
339