Shepard, Sam, 144
Shields, 198
Shrek (film), 15
Sima Qian, 119
Simmons, Sylvie, 162
Simon, John, 32, 132–36, 138–39
Simon, Paul, 132
Sinai, 186, 189
Sinfield, Peter, 173
“Singer Must Die, A” (Cohen), 102–3
“Sisters of Mercy” (Cohen), 139, 190, 213, 240
Six-Day War of 1967, 183
Slater, Christian, 221
Slick, Grace, 153
Sloman, Larry “Ratso,” 144–45, 211
Sly and the Family Stone, 29, 172
Smith, Corlies, 99
Smith, Elliott, 203
Smith, Kathy, 21
Smith, Patti, 15, 194
Smiths, 203
Socrates, 101, 103, 169
Solomon Gursky Was Here (Richler), 80
“So Long, Marianne” (Cohen), 14, 133, 162, 180, 186–87, 210
Songs from a Room (Cohen), 147–49, 165–67
Songs of Leonard Cohen (Cohen), 138–40, 147
Songs of Love and Hate (Cohen), 165, 167–68
Soviet Communist Party, 81
Spain, 54–55, 96, 118
civil war in, 55
“Sparrows, The” (Cohen), 62
Spector, Phil, 194–98, 201
LC’s collaboration with, 195–98
murder trial of, 235
Spengler, Oswald, 128
Spice-Box of Earth, The (Cohen), 80, 98
Spitz, Bob, 122
Star of David, 47–48
Sting, 226
Stone, Oliver, 149, 227–28
“Story of Isaac, The” (Cohen), 149
“Stranger Song, The” (Cohen), 129
Stranglers, 194
Supertramp, 21
Survival (Atwood), 55–56
“Suzanne” (Cohen), 32, 126, 129, 130–31, 133, 167, 170, 190, 207, 210, 213, 240, 243
Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven), 151
“Take This Waltz” (Cohen), 220
Talking Heads, 194
Talmud, 43, 57, 80, 116, 192, 201
“Taxman” (Beatles), 122, 154
Tekakwitha, Catherine, 108–9
Tel Aviv, 176–77, 184–85, 199, 239–45
Temptations, 122
Tennessee, 14, 135
“Tennessee Waltz,” 233
Ten New Songs (Cohen), 232–34
Texas, 77, 160
Tex-Mex borderlands music, 138
“There Is a War” (Cohen), 189–90
“There’ll Always Be an England,” 27
Thomas, Anjani, 233, 234
Thomas Aquinas, 49
Thomson, Virgil, 121
Thoreau, Henry David, 56, 101
13th Floor Elevators, 123
Time, 109
Tin Pan Alley, 138
Tiny Tim, 27
“To a Teacher” (Cohen), 80, 233
Together Through Life (Dylan), 138
“Tomorrow Never Knows” (Beatles), 123
Top 50 chart (UK), 15
Torah, 43, 45
Toronto, 98, 109–11, 224–25
Toronto, University of, 63
“To the Lawyer Handling My Divorce Case” (Klein), 58
Towards the Last Spike (Pratt), 56–57
Tower of Song, 226
Trancendentalists, 56
Treasury of Rabbinic Interpretations, A (Klinitsky-Klein), 42
U2, 222
Unettaneh Tokef, 191
United States, 90, 100–101
literature of, 56, 57, 83, 101
protests in, 130, 220
Van Halen, 194
Various Positions (Cohen), 15
Vatican, Sistine Chapel in, 81
Velvet Underground, 128, 153
Velvet Underground and Nico, The, 127
Victorian tradition, 56
Vietnam War protests, 130
“View from the Bandstand, The” (Reed), 127–28
Viking Press, 99
Village Voice, 141
“Villanelle for Our Time” (Scott), 233
Virgil, 57–58
Voices of East Harlem, 23
“Waiting for the Miracle” (Cohen), 228
Wakeman, Rick, 175
Wałesa, Lech, 215
Wall of Sound, 195
Warhol, Andy, 121, 127
Warnes, Jennifer, 169, 180, 217–18
Warsaw, 215–17
Sala Kongresowa stadium in, 215–16
Washburn, Donna, 169, 180
Watchmen, The (film), 15
Waters, Muddy, 138
Waters, Roger, 172
Weigel, David, 175
White Panthers, 20
“Whither Thou Goest” (Cohen), 243–44
Whitman, Walt, 101, 220
Who, 20, 29, 128
“Who by Fire” (Cohen), 191–93
Wilentz, Sean, 138
Williams, Hank, 138
Wilson, Brian, 15, 123, 128, 172
“With God on Our Side” (Dylan), 116, 137
“Without You” (Nilsson), 172
Wolfe, Tom, 195
Woodstock, N.Y., 123
Woodstock music festival, 22, 159
World War I, 41, 205
World War II, 20, 81
Yale University, 132
Yes (band), 172
Yetnikoff, Walter, 15
Yom Kippur, 183, 191
Yom Kippur War of 1973, 183–88
LC’s entertainment of troops in, 185–88, 239
“You Cheated, You Lied” (Shields), 198
“You Know Who I Am” (Cohen), 163
Young, Neil, 15
“You Won’t See Me” (Beatles), 122
Zen Buddhism, 17, 237
LC’s embrace of, 204–7, 228–31
Rinzai, 204–7, 228–31
Soto, 205
Zionism, 47–48, 116
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