The Sixties: Diaries:1960-1969

by Christopher Isherwood

  Pacific Coast Writers’ Conference 280

  Page, Anthony (Tony) 422, 446, 447, 458, 519, 569 –70, 596, 681

  Page Smith, Charles 492

  Pagenstecher, Eleanor 34

  Pagli (Amelia Monsour) 269, 356, 681–2

  Pago Pago, American Samoa 571, 576, 577

  Paicines, California 597

  Pakula, Alan 184, 377, 384, 386, 389, 394, 682

  Palerang, Australia 571, 586 –9

  Paley, William (Bill) 369, 682

  Palm Springs, California 355, 574; C.I. visits Truman Capote in 497, 542–3

  Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (film) 202

  Papeete, Tahiti 571, 574, 576

  Paradise Now (The Living Theatre show) 548

  Parker, Dorothy 130, 160, 171, 173, 183, 184, 189, 194, 223, 280, 287, 682

  Parliament of Religions (India) 315, 316, 318, 320–21, 321–2, 324, 325, 332

  Parone, Edward 551, 682–3

  Patanjali 179n, 407

  Paths of Glory (film) 499

  Pauck, Hans Christian 411–12

  “Paul” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit) 5, 11, 32, 34, 38, 41, 43, 46, 51, 53, 54, 61, 66 –7, 75, 80, 82, 83

  Pavitrananda, Swami 153, 212, 215, 319, 406, 683

  Paxton, Larry 176, 216, 278, 471, 489; funeral 275–6, 462

  Paz, Miss (pseud.; UCLA student) 364

  peace campaigners xxxii, 33, 456 –7

  Peak District (England) 89

  Pearson, Hesketh, Beerbohm Tree 151

  Peck, Oscar, Sex Life of a Cop 485, 490

  Pegler, Westbrook 361

  Penguin Books (publishers) 584 People (magazine) 512

  Pepys, Samuel 144

  Perry, Frank and Ellen 543

  Person, Jean 404

  Peschelt, Dr. (dentist) 115

  Peters, Edward 363, 368

  Petranant, Yvonne 4, 5

  Pfeiffer, Virginia 128, 238, 298, 299, 360, 439, 455, 683

  Philadelphia 149

  Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh 281

  Phipps, William Edward (Bill) 14, 252, 683

  Phoenix, Arizona: Museum of Art 238, 266, 271, 336, 452; Don Bachardy visits 255–6

  Picasso, Pablo 22, 126, 250

  Pickford, Mary 283

  Pierson, Thomas 175–6

  Pietrowicz, Richard 192–3, 468

  Pill, The (contraceptive) 447

  Pirandello, Luigi: Right You Are (If You Think You Are) 293–4; Six Characters in Search of an Author 44;

  Plato 41, 42, 139, 140, 144, 148; Phaedrus 37, 38, 49

  Platt, Ronald 479, 525

  Play of Daniel (musical drama) 152–3

  Plomer, William 88, 683–4; Turbott Wolfe 470

  Plowright, Joan 10, 110, 684

  Plunkett, Walter 34

  Poe, Edgar Allan 170, 494

  Point Dume, California 17–18, 290, 482

  Polanski, Roman 521

  Pole, Rupert 272–3, 679

  Pomare V, King of Tahiti 574

  Pope, Alexander 267–8, 497, 578

  population explosion, threat of 377

  Porter, Glenn 190, 192, 216 –17, 234, 241–2, 456

  Porter, Katherine Anne 240–41

  Potter, Beatrix 28

  Pound, Ezra, Cavalcanti translations 494

  Powell, Graham 565, 567

  Power and the Glory, The (Greene; television adaptation) 131

  power failure in north-east U.S. (November 1965) 378

  Prabha (Phoebe Nixon; later Pravrajika Prabhaprana) 278, 684

  Prabhavananda, Swami: C.I.’s devotion to xi, xii, xxv, xxvii–xxviii, xxxvii, 324–5, 389, 507, 538, 539, 551, 553, 556, 561; initiation of Don Bachardy xv, 194, 195, 205, 245–6, 248, 251, 254; at Laguna Beach xvi, 210, 212; disapproves of drug use xx; C.I. questions teachings xxii, xxvi–xxvii, xxviii, 159, 215, 393; C.I. visits India with xxii–xxiii, xxv–xxvii, xxxii, xxxvii, 290, 291, 298, 300–334; teachings on purity xxiii–xxiv, 231–2; counsel to C.I. xxv, xxvii, 133–4, 157, 159, 248, 279, 324–5, 401–2, 435, 516, 561; illnesses xxvii–xxviii, xxxvii, 260, 302, 327, 329, 330, 332, 406, 500, 507, 535, 537, 599; devotion to Ramakrishna xxviii, 357, 385, 438, 562; and C.I.’s decision to leave monastery 9; Gita translation 9n, 265n, 516; visits C.I.’s house for first time 23; birthdays 36, 253, 311, 434, 435, 595; differences with Gerald Heard 48 & n; officiates at temple 48, 132, 262; unconditional love 52; at Trabuco 133–4, 238, 240, 277, 278–9, 568; and Maharaj (Swami Brahmananda) 133, 210, 253, 267, 279, 303, 357, 410, 438, 507, 532, 561; breakfast puja 156, 157, 259 –60, 538; translation of Patanjali with C.I. 179; threatened by Marlene Laurence 190, 196; and death of George Sandwich 197; Father’s Day lunches 198, 397–8, 449 –50; goaded by Dorothy Louis (Shraddha) 226; dreams and visions 236, 253, 256, 279, 338, 410, 438, 532, 538, 539 –40; on psychic phenomena 240; on Sino-Indian War 243; on value of prayer 248, 279, 348; plans for training swamis from India 263; counsel on making japam 268–9; on sexuality and lust 269; age 270; and Usha’s sannyas 278, 286; on jealousy of Gerald Heard and Joseph Kolisch 279; on Queen Elizabeth II’s meeting with Radhakrishnan 281; on The Leopard (film) 292; and Nikhilananda 304, 305, 320–21; and Ranganathananda 318, 327; vows never to return to India 338; tells off Arup Chaitanya 340–41; and C.I.’s Ramakrishna and His Disciples 342; on death 348, 357, 406; caste prejudice 381; and Sarada 383, 395, 410; and Vidya’s possible move to India 383–4, 384–5, 535, 592–3; chadar given to C.I. 393, 407, 618; on Indian nationalism 393; trip to Chicago and New York 393; reads draft of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 395, 396; on morality 401–2; and proposed dedication of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River to Vidya 401, 406; convalescing 410, 426, 438, 441; meditation 426, 516; advice to monk having nervous breakdown 432; C.I.’s introduction to collection of lectures (Religion in Practice) 436, 439, 441, 442; relations with Vandanananda 441–2, 522, 540, 568, 581–2, 584; prostate operation 449, 470, 474; on Amiya’s stay at Vedanta Center 469; advises Jo Masselink on meditation following marriage break up 476; appearance on Les Crane’s television talk show 479 –80; and death of Dick Thom 494, 497; in Mount Sinai Hospital 500, 507; seeks title for volume of Vivekananda’s letters 510–511; recovery and renewed concern for Vedanta Center affairs 522; indignation at changing priorities at Belur Math 525; and C.I.’s introduction to Vedanta for the Western World 539 –40; on Shakespearean link to Gayatri mantra 554; enjoys production of Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God 559; blesses C.I.’s and Bachardy’s trip to Tahiti and Australia 570; at Vandanananda’s farewell lunch 581–2; translation of Narada’s Bhakti Sutras 581, 595; and Jim Gates 596; 684–5

  Prater Violet (C.I.) 249, 376, 453n, 498n, 598n

  Prema Chaitanya (earlier John Yale; afterwards Swami Vidyatmananda; Vidya): editor of Vedanta Society magazine 6, 7; C.I.’s relations with 24, 378, 384; visits C.I. 46, 130; at Hollywood Vedanta Center 48, 190, 262, 341; on guest list for C.I.’s party for Jo Masselink 55; meets C.I. on return from New York 155, 157; possible move to Boston center 236; Prabhavananda dreams about 236; account of drunken couple 268; at Trabuco 277–9; and Krishna 278–9; plans to stay in India 278, 286, 303, 305, 332–3; on Santa Barbara temple 278; and Usha 278, 329; upset by Rechy’s City of the Night 281; farewell dinner for 288, 289; at Belur Math 303, 304–5, 306, 307, 309, 310–312, 313–14, 322, 326, 328, 329, 330, 332–3, 406, 432; and C.I.’s Ramakrishna book 310–311; takes sannyas 312, 328–9, 331, 333, 336, 378; lecture on Vedanta Society of Southern California 313–14; talk on “Vivekananda Through the Eye of an American” 318; move to French center 341, 383–4, 396, 401; proofreads C.I.’s Ramakrishna and His Disciples 342; helps at Sarada Convent following brush fire 343; reads drafts of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 377, 390, 396, 397, 400; plans to move to India 384; at opening of Don Bachardy’s show at Rex Evans’s gallery 387; on love 388; and dedication of A Meeting by the River 401, 406; anthology of Vivekananda’s writings 407; on future of Belur Math after Prabhavananda’s death 410; possible recall to India 535, 592�
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  presidential election 1960 20 & n, 23–4, 25–6, 687

  presidential election 1964 285n, 289, 344, 345, 350

  presidential election 1968 502, 508, 523, 525, 531, 687

  Preston, Jonathan 63, 64, 72, 74, 92, 98, 100, 687

  Priestley, J.B. 101

  Prince, Hal 551, 687

  Princeton, USS 217, 241, 242, 244

  Princeton University 405

  Prinzmetal, Myron 254

  Prosser, Lee 286, 296, 364, 584, 687

  Prosser, Mary 364, 584

  Protetch, David 146, 147, 156

  Proust, Marcel 2, 40, 322, 345, 422

  Providence, Rhode Island, Vedanta center 236

  Pryce-Jones, Alan 155

  Puri, Orissa 279

  Quakers 18, 51, 358

  Queen (magazine) 88, 100, 114

  Queensberry, Francis Douglas, 11th Marquess of, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas 62

  Quigley, Peter 245

  Rabb, Ellis 518, 688

  race riots 459 –60, 504, 506

  Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli 281

  Radziwill, Princess (Caroline Lee Bouvier) 198, 200, 201

  Rahvis, Raemonde 121

  Rainer, Dachine 215

  Ramakrishna: death xxiii, 315; honesty xxiii– xxiv, 231–2; C.I.’s devotion to xxviii, 278; C.I. tries to dedicate mother’s burial spot to 93; prophesies 134; and Anne Marshall’s book 231; purity 232; C.I. questions value of prayer to 247; Brahmananda and 257, 562; Vivekananda and 257–8, 260, 562; throat cancer 284, 286; final revelation 480; 688

  Ramakrishna and His Disciples (C.I.): writing xxii–xxiii, 6, 44, 56, 66, 79, 96, 106, 140, 143, 169, 171, 179, 180, 186, 200, 206, 216, 219, 260; C.I. bored by 137, 170, 271; and Vivekananda 201, 271, 285; and Prabhavananda 232; chapter on disciples 259; final chapters 271, 280, 282–3, 284, 285–6, 289; Don Bachardy’s suggestions for 285, 289; preparations for publication 290; revision 291–2, 295, 298, 336; title 291; illustrations 310, 315, 342; Prema’s criticisms of 311; correction of proofs 341, 342

  Ramakrishna Mission College, West Bengal 312, 313

  Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta 314–16, 317–18, 327

  Ramaswamy, Iyer 363

  Ramsey, Arthur Michael, Archbishop of Canterbury 209

  RAND Corporation 5

  Ranganathananda, Swami 314, 317–18, 323, 327, 331, 538, 540, 688–9

  Rashomon (film) 110

  Rasponi, Count Lanfranco 146, 147, 151, 153, 194

  Ratan, Jai 329

  Rattigan, Terence 19, 111, 689; Man and Boy 110, 111

  “Rawhide” (television show) 374

  Ray, Andrew 10 & n, 81, 689

  Read, Jan 3

  Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature 288

  Reagan, Nancy 463

  Reagan, Ronald 463, 473

  Rechy, John 12, 15, 19, 23, 450, 460, 482–3, 689; City of the Night 281; Numbers 478–9, 482–3

  Redfern Gallery, London 66, 68, 69, 72, 86, 88–9, 94, 95, 103, 108, 116, 119, 445

  Redgrave, Vanessa 341, 427, 429, 434, 435, 479, 503, 534, 690

  Reed, Rex 523

  Reflections in a Golden Eye (film) xxix, 341, 342

  Regester, James Robert (Bob) 413, 433, 446, 447, 452–3, 472, 481, 593, 690

  Reid, Bill (carpenter) 469

  Reinhardt, Gottfried 414–15, 690

  Reinhardt, Wolfgang 4–5, 217, 690–91

  Rembrandt, “Manoah’s Offering” 213, 691

  Renaldo, Tito 190, 508–9, 691

  Renoir, Jean 252

  Repton (school) 209

  Reventlow, Lance 40, 691

  Reynolds, Quentin 361

  Rheinart, Keith (medium) 360–61

  Richards, Paul (bookdealer) 483

  Richardson, Jack, The Prodigal 7 & n

  Richardson, Maurice 85

  Richardson, Samuel 537

  Richardson, Tony: C.I.’s relations and professional activities with xxix, 19, 60–61, 69, 72, 86, 91, 103, 110, 336, 337, 338, 339, 341, 342, 345, 348, 374, 437, 592, 593, 594, 595, 598; character 19, 107, 110, 121, 345, 586; socializes with C.I. in California 32, 337, 338, 427, 434, 435–6, 437, 480–81; and John Osborne 72, 91, 109, 110, 481, 587; C.I. socializes with in London 76, 97– 8; and Chester Kallman 79; Forster’s dislike of 83–4; C.I. stays with in South of France 101, 102, 103, 105, 107–113; and Jimmy Woolf 121; table talk on actors and acting 341–2, 435–6; and Vanessa Redgrave 341, 427, 435; and Neil Hartley 344, 345, 481, 586 –7, 595; and Budd Cherry 345, 347; on ballet 346; and Gavin Lambert 435; and Jeremy Fry 480–81; Don Bachardy’s views on 500; and stage adaptation of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 529; in Australia for Ned Kelly filming 532, 554, 561, 570, 571, 572, 578, 586 –7; 692

  The Changeling 35; The Charge of the Light Brigade 452, 453, 481; I, Claudius xxxv, xxxvi, 561, 566, 570, 572, 577, 588, 592, 593, 594, 595; The Loved One xxix, 336, 337, 338, 339, 341, 344, 348, 356 –7; Ned Kelly xxxv–xxxvi, 532, 561, 571, 585–9; A Passage to India 84; Reflections in a Golden Eye xxix, 341; The Sailor from Gibraltar xxix, 342, 349, 374, 376n; Sanctuary 20–21; A Taste of Honey (play) 4, (film) 60–61, 111, 113

  Rickards, Jocelyn 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114–15, 117, 692

  Rilke, Rainer Maria 241

  Rimbaud, Arthur 457, 481

  Ringling Brothers circus 227–8

  riots: Detroit 459 –60; Washington 504, 506

  Ritajananda, Swami 48, 130, 133, 134, 535, 692–3

  Riverside, Mission Inn 225, 230

  Riverside, University of California at: C.I. teaches at 377, 384, 385, 389, 392, 393, 394, 395–6, 397; C.I. declines further teaching 428–9, 432

  Robbins, Jerome (Jerry) 95, 102, 106, 693

  Roberts, Rachel (Mrs. Rex Harrison) 434, 435, 437, 693

  Robinson, Bill 230, 693

  Rodia, Sabato (Simon) 549, 693

  Roerick, Bill 138, 191, 193, 693

  Rogers, Will 260

  Rolland, Romain 298; The Life of Ramakrishna 298n, 323

  Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (film) 5, 32, 493

  Rome 334 Romeo and Juliet (ballet) 565, 567

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 297

  Rorem, Ned 211, 693–4; Paris Diary 389, 390

  Rosen, Bob 344, 347, 694

  Rosen, Jack 217

  Rosenberg, John 403

  Ross, Jean 86, 499, 694

  Rossman, Charles 192

  Roth, David 389, 438, 473

  Roy, Dr. (surgeon in Calcutta) 315, 317, 327–8

  Royal Ballet 565

  Royal Canadian Air Force workout book 273, 282, 292, 294, 403

  Royal Court Theatre, London 91, 509, 570

  Rozanov, V.V. 292, 294; Solitaria 292n, 295

  Rubin, David 193

  Rubin, Michael 182

  Ruskin, John 278, 403

  Russell, Bertrand 95, 111, 694–5

  Russell, Hillary 363

  Russell, Rosalind 57

  Russia see USSR

  Russo, Anthony 441

  Ryan, Jack 563

  Sachs, David 437, 493, 597, 695

  Sachs, Maurice 74

  Sackville-West, Vita 443

  Sade, Marquis de, The 120 Days of Sodom 49, 82

  Sagittarius Gallery, New York 135, 146, 151, 153

  Sahl, Mort 85, 87, 695

  Sailor from Gibraltar, The (film) xxix, 342, 343, 344, 347, 348, 349, 374, 376

  St. John’s College, Cambridge 595

  St. Just, Maria 118–19, 695

  Sainthill, Loudon 69, 91, 695

  Salinger, J.D. 295, 395

  Salinger, Pierre 262, 350

  Sally Bowles (C.I.) 92

  Salton Sea, California 557