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The Last Love Song

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by Tracy Daugherty

O’Connor, Flannery

  O’ Connor, Frank

  The Octopus (Norris)

  O’Keeffe, Georgia

  Olasky, Marvin

  The Old Gringo

  Olympic Winter Games, 1959

  O’Malley, Walter

  O Mistress Mine

  Onassis, Aristotle

  Onassis, Jacqueline Bouvier

  Kennedy assassination and

  as Prix de Paris contest winner

  O’Neill, Eugene

  “On Going Home” (Didion)

  “On His Brother’s Death” (Catullus)

  “On Keeping a Notebook” (Didion)

  “On Morality” (Didion)

  “On Self-Respect” (Didion)

  “On the Morning After the Sixties” (Didion)

  On the Road (Kerouac)

  Open City (Los Angeles)

  Operación Pedro Pan (Cuba)

  Operation Babylift (Vietnam)

  Operation CHAOS (CIA)

  Operation Frequent Wind (Vietnam)

  Operation Midnight Climax (CIA)

  Operation Rolling Thunder (Vietnam)

  Oregon Biographies Project

  Orrick, Mildred

  Ortega, Daniel

  Orwell, George

  Osika, Joyce

  Osmond, Donny

  Oswald, Lee Harvey

  Other Voices, Other Rooms (Capote)

  Otis, Harrison Gray

  Ovitz, Michael

  Oxford Companion to American Literature (Hart)

  Pacino, Al

  Page, Jimmy

  Paley, Grace

  Panama invasion, 1989

  Pandora’s Box, Los Angeles

  Panic in Needle Park (Mills)

  Panic in Needle Park (screenplay/movie)

  production of

  research for

  theme of

  Paradise Lost (Milton)

  The Paris Review

  Parkinson, Thomas

  Parmentel, Noel E., Jr.

  Didion’s relationship with

  literary characters based on

  Parrish, Timothy

  The Partisan Review

  Pearl Harbor bombing

  Peckinpah, Sam

  The Pelican (Berkeley)

  Pellicano, Anthony

  PEN Center USA Literary Awards Festival

  Pennebaker, D. A.

  Penn, Irving

  “People I Wish I Had Known” (Bouvier)

  Peoples Temple

  Percy, Walker

  Perelman, S. J.

  Perry, Frank

  Perry, Nancy Ling

  Perry, Richard

  Peters, Jon

  Peterson, Edward J.

  The Petrified Forest

  Pettit, Mark

  Pfeiffer, Michelle

  Phillips, John

  Phillips, Julia

  Phillips, Michelle

  Pickering, Thomas R.

  Pierson, Frank

  Pike, James Albert

  Pilafian, Peter

  The Pink Panther

  Plath, Sylvia

  Playhouse 90

  Play It As It Lays (Didion)

  character constructions in

  cover of

  drafting of

  literary style of

  point of view in

  reception of

  themes/narrative of

  Play It As It Lays (screenplay/movie)

  production of

  reception of

  Playland (Dunne, J.)

  Plimpton, George

  Pocket Books

  Podhoretz, Norman

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  “Points West” column (Saturday Evening Post)

  Polanski, Roman

  Political Fictions (Didion)

  thesis of

  voice of

  politics. See also Democratic Party; Republican Party

  of Didion

  disguised narratives in

  Poltergeist

  Polt, Harriet

  Pop Art

  Porter, Cole

  Porter, Katherine Anne

  Post, Emily

  Potter, Claire

  Powell, Lawrence Clark

  “Prayer to the Virgin” (Adams)

  Preminger, Otto

  Pride and Prejudice (Austen)

  Princeton

  Alumni Weekly

  Prix de Paris contest, Vogue

  Prohibition era

  The Prospector (school paper)

  Public Disorder Intelligence Unit, LAPD

  Publishers Weekly

  Puerto del Diablo, El Salvador

  Pulitzer Prize

  Pynchon, Thomas

  “Quiet Days in Malibu” (Didion)

  The Quiet American (Greene)

  “Quintana” (Dunne, J.)

  racism

  Ramírez Vázquez, Pedro

  Ramparts

  Rand, Ayn

  Rand Corporation

  Random House

  Rasiel, Rosa

  Rauschenberg, Robert

  Reagan, Nancy

  Didion interview with

  Reagan, Ronald

  Central America funding by

  as governor

  as president

  The Realist

  Rebel Without a Cause

  Redbook

  Redford, Robert

  Redgrave, Vanessa

  in The Year of Magical Thinking

  The Red White and Blue (Dunne, J.)

  Reed, Ishmael

  Reed, Julia

  Reed, Rex

  Reed, Virginia

  Reese, Edward

  Referral to the United States House of Representatives

  Reno, Janet

  The Reporter

  The Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations

  Republican Party

  National Conventions

  right shift of

  Resentment: A Comedy (Indiana)

  the Resistance (antiwar group)

  Reuther, Walter

  Revolutionary Army

  Rexroth, Kenneth

  Reynolds, Ruth

  Richards, Keith

  Richardson, Natasha

  Richardson, Tony

  Rich, Frank

  Richter, Gerhard

  Ridland, John

  Rinkel, Max

  Riordan, Richard

  R. L. Oatman and Associates

  Robbins, Henry

  change of publishers by

  death of

  as Didion’s editor

  Roberts, Cokie

  Robin and Marion

  Robinson, Jackie

  Robinson, Jill Schary

  Rockefeller, Nelson

  Rodriguez, Richard

  Rogue’s March (Obolensky)

  Roiphe, Katie

  Rolling Stone

  Rolling Stones

  Rollyson, Carl

  Romero, Oscar

  Ronald Reagan (D’Souza)

  A Room of One’s Own (Woolf)

  Rosenberg, Harold

  Rosenblatt, Roger

  Ross, Alex

  Rossen, Robert

  Ross, Katharine

  Rothchild, Paul

  Roth, Philip

  Rothstein, Edward

  Royce, Josiah

  Rubenstein, Mala

  Rudin, Scott

  Rummonds, Gabriel

  Rumsfeld, Donald H.

  Run River (Didion)

  characters of

  drafting of

  editing of

  nostalgic elements in

  reception of

  themes/narrative of

  titling of

  Ruscha, Ed

  Rustin, Susanna

  Rutten, Tim

  Ryan, Leo

  Saarinen, Aline B.

  Saarinen, Eero

  Sack, John

  Sacramento Junior College

  Sacramento News and Review

  The Sacramento Union

  Sacram
ento Valley, California

  class structure in

  flooding within

  history/transformation of

  Sactown

  Saint John the Divine, New York

  St. John, Jill

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  Salinger, J. D.

  Salvador (Didion)

  narrative of

  reception of

  research of

  Salvadori, Mario

  Sanders, Ed

  Sandoz Pharmaceuticals

  San Francisco

  LSD culture/era in

  San Francisco Bay Guardian

  San Francisco Chronicle

  San Francisco Examiner

  San Jose Mercury News

  San Juan Bautista Mission, California

  Sankey, Janet

  Sankey, Tom

  The San Francisco News

  Saroyan, William

  Sartre, Jean-Paul

  Saturday Club, Sacramento

  Saturday Evening Post

  bankruptcy of

  Didion contributions to

  Dunne contributions to

  The Saturday Review

  Savio, Mario

  Savitch, Jessica

  Sayre, Nora

  Scarry, Elaine

  Schary, Dore

  Schatzberg, Jerry

  Scheider, Roy

  Schenley Industries

  Schiavo, Terri

  Schiller, Lawrence

  Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.

  Schlesinger, James R.

  Schnabel, Julian

  Scholes, Robert

  Schorer, Mark

  Schrader, Paul

  Schwartz, Jack

  Schwartz, Lynn Sharon

  Schwerner, Michael

  Scott, Campbell

  Scott, Elizabeth

  Screen Actors Guild

  A Season in Purgatory (Dunne, D.)

  Sebring, Jay

  “The Second Coming” (Yeats)

  The Secret Agent (Conrad)

  Segal, Lore

  “September 1, 1939” (Auden)

  Shackley, Theodore

  Shapiro, Karl

  Shaw, Clay

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Shearer, Norma

  Sheed, Wilfrid

  Sheehan, Neil

  Sheehan, Nora

  “The Sheik” (Babitz)

  Sheil, Anthony

  Shell, Joe

  Shepard, Sam

  Sherman, Camp, Oregon

  Short, Elizabeth

  Show Me a Hero (Dunne, J.)

  Siegel, Bugsy

  Siegel, Don

  Silberman, James

  Silent Generation

  Silverblatt, Michael

  Silver, Joan Micklin

  Silvers, Robert

  Simon, Carly

  Simon, John

  Simon & Schuster

  Didion’s move to

  royalty disputes with

  Simpson, O. J.

  Sinatra, Frank

  Sinatra, Tina

  Sinclair, Upton

  Singlaub, John

  Sipa USA

  60 Minutes II

  Skakel, Michael

  Skakel, Tommy

  Sky Above Clouds (painting)

  SLA. See Symbionese Liberation Army

  Slouching Towards Bethlehem (book) (Didion)

  “Goodbye to All That” in

  “John Wayne: A Love Song” in

  “Letter from Paradise, 21° 19' N. 157° 52' W” in

  “Los Angeles Notebook” in

  “On Going Home” in

  “On Keeping a Notebook” in

  “On Morality” in

  “On Self-Respect” in

  reception of

  release of

  “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” in

  “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream” in

  thematic elements of

  titling of

  voice of

  “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” (essay) (Didion)

  reception of

  theme of

  writing style in

  Smant, Kevin

  Smith, Carol Houck

  Smith, Chris

  Smith, Diana

  Smith, Harold S., Sr.

  Smith, Henry Nash

  Smith, Ken

  Smith, Patti

  Smith, Rita

  Snow Covered Wagons (Altrocchi)

  Snyder, Dick

  Snyder, Gary

  Snyder, Rixford K.

  The Soft Machine (Burroughs)

  Soltysik, Patricia

  “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream” (Didion)

  Sons and Lovers (Lawrence)

  The Sons of Katie Elder

  Sontag, Susan

  Sophie’s Choice (Styron)

  Sorenson, Theodore G.

  The Sound of Music

  Southern, Terry

  Specktor, Matthew

  Spectator (Barnard)

  Spector, Phil

  Spenser, Edmund

  Spicer, Jack

  Spielberg, Steven

  Sports Illustrated

  Spy

  Stafford, Jean

  Stamberg, Susan

  Stanley, Owsley

  A Star Is Born (screenplay/movie)

  research of

  Stardust Motel, Delano

  Starr, Kenneth

  Starting Out in the Evening (Morton)

  Steele, Tim

  Steffens, Lincoln

  Steinbeck, John

  Stein, Ben

  Stein, Jules

  Stephens, John Lloyd

  Stephenson, Shirley

  Stevens, Wallace

  Stiefel, Arnold

  Stills, Stephen

  Stimpson, Catharine

  Stone, Oliver

  Straight, Susan

  Straus, Helen

  Straus, Roger

  Streisand, Barbra

  Streisand, Jason

  Streshinsky, Shirley

  Streshinsky, Ted

  “Strike” (Dunne, J.)

  The Studio (Dunne, J.)

  Sturges, Sandy

  Styron, William

  Such Good Friends (Gould)

  Summer of Love

  Sunday Times (Britain)

  “Sunset” (Didion)

  Sunset Boulevard

  Supreme Court

  Sutter, John

  Suzuki, D. T.

  Suzuki, Shunryu

  Swaim, Don

  Swanson, H. N. “Swanie”

  Sweeney, John Thomas

  Sylbert, Richard

  Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)

  Szalay, Michael

  Talbot, David

  Talese, Gay

  Talmey, Allene

  Tan, Amy

  Tanen, Ned

  Tara, Bill

  Tate, Sharon

  Taylor, Charles

  Taylor, Elizabeth

  Taylor, James

  Taylor, Peter

  Teamsters

  “Technique as Discovery” (Schorer)

  Teena, Brandon

  Tehran hostage crisis

  Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald)

  Tenko

  Tess of the d’Urbervilles

  The Theory of Real Property Valuation (Jerrett)

  Thomas, Marlo

  Thompson, Guy E.

  Thompson, Hunter S.

  Thumbheart, Frank

  Time magazine

  Didion features by

  Dunne contributions to

  Vietnam coverage by

  Times of London

  “Tinsel” (Dunne, J.)

  Tolstoy, Leo

  Too Much Money (Dunne, D.)

  Torrijos Herrera, Omar

  Totem and Taboo (Freud)

  Tower Commission Report

  The Tragic Muse (James)

  Tramont, Jean-Claude

  Traylor, Susan

  Traylor, William

  Triay, Victor

/>   Trillin, Calvin

  True Confessions (Dunne, J.)

  narrative of

  theme of

  True Confessions (screenplay)

  Truffaut, François

  Truslow, Jane

  Turner, Rob

  Twain, Mark

  Twentysix Gasoline Stations (Ruscha)

  UCLA (University of California Los Angeles)

  Library Special Collections

  Ultimatum

  underground press

  United Press International

  University of California, Berkeley

  antiwar protests at

  Didion as lecturer at

  Didion as student at

  Didion profile on

  Farm Workers’ strike and

  Hearst kidnapping and

  University of California, Los Angeles. See UCLA

  University of California, Riverside

  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (Barthelme)

  Up Close & Personal

  Updike, John

  U.S. Army Air Corps

  USA Today

  The Users (Haber)

  The Uses of the University (Kerr)

  USS Arizona

  USS Blue Ridge

  USS Coral Sea

  USS Maddox

  USS Okinawa

  U.S. Special Forces

  USS Turner Joy

  USS Utah

  USS Wasp

  Vacaville State Prison, California

  Van de Kamp, John

  Vandercook, John W.

  Vanderlip, Frank

  van der Rohe, Mies

  VanDevelder, Paul

  Van Houten, Leslie

  Vanity Fair

  Didion profiles by

  Dunne, Nick, contributions to

  Varda, Agnès

  Vazquez, Amado

  Vegas (Dunne, J.)

  thematic elements of

  Vertigo

  Veterans Administration

  Victory (Conrad)

  Vidal, Gore

  Vietnam War

  media coverage of

  My Lai massacre in

  protests of

  refugees of

  U.S. retreat from

  The Village Voice

  Vogue

  Didion contributions to

  Prix de Paris contest by

  Vollers, Maryanne

  von Bülow, Claus

  von Bülow, Sunny

  Vreeland, Diana

  Wagner, Robert

  Wainright, Loudon

  Waiting for Godot (Beckett)

  Wakefield, Dan

  Wald, Connie

  Wald, Jerry

  Walken, Christopher

  Walker, Edwin

  Wallace, Lois

  The Wall Street Journal

  Wanger, Shelley

  Wanger, Walter

  Warhol, Andy

  Warner, Jack

  Warren Commission

  Warren, Earl

  Warren, Nina

  The Wars of Love (Schorer)

  The Washington Post

  Wasser, Julian

  Wasserman, Lew

  Wasserman, Steve

  Watch on the Rhine

  Watergate

  Waterston, Sam

  Watson, Blake H.

  Watson, Tex

  Watts, Alan

  Watts Riots

  Watts, Robert

  Waugh, Evelyn

  Wayne, John

  Didion interview with

  Wayne, Pilar

  The Way We Lived Then (Dunne, D.)

  the Weathermen

  Weaver, Polly

  Weber, Steven

  Weed, Steven

  Welch, Robert

  Weld, Tuesday

  “The Welfare Island Ferry” (Didion)

 

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