Miller, Valentine (Henry Miller’s daughter) 129
Mineo, Sal 541, 559
Minnelli, Denise 523
Minnelli, Liza xxxiv
Minton, John 83
Miró, Joan 255, 263
Miron, Stanley (pseud.) 140, 170, 220, 245, 271, 275, 488
Mishima, Yukio 24, 675
“Mr. Lancaster” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit) 33, 37, 61, 63, 64, 537
Mr. Norris Changes Trains (C.I.) 85
Mitchell Boys Choir 251
Moffat, Ivan: friendship and socializing with C.I. 4, 176–7, 450; and Iris Tree 29, 79, 87; New Year’s Eve (1960) 37, 39; and C.I.’s film script writing 45; at C.I.’s party for Jo Masselink 55; marriage to Kate Smith 79, 87, 169, 184; and Glenn Ford and Hope Lange 139; enthusiasm for C.I.’s Down There on a Visit 160; Don Bachardy’s portrait of 177; political views 177; at Alan Pakula’s party 184; Cecil Beaton’s view on career 272; prose poem about return to America after war 450; recommends K.H.3 tablets 531, 532; 675
Moffat, Katharine see Smith, Katharine
Moffitt, John 326
Moffitt, Peggy (Mrs. Bill Claxton) 222, 619–20
Mohan, Mathur 317
Molière 550
Mondrian, Piet 379
Monkhouse, Allan, First Blood 88
Monroe, Marilyn 29; death 212, 213
Monsour, Amelia see Pagli
Montecito, California: Sarada Convent 24n, 26, 256, 278, 343, 696; Paul Wonner and Bill Brown’s house 565
Monument Valley 224, 355
Moody, Robert 120, 675–6
moon landing (1969) 569, 570, 577
Moore, Dudley 65n
Moore, Frank 19
Moore, George: Avowals 96, 98, 100–101; Memoirs of My Dead Life 403; A Mummer’s Wife 470; The Untilled Field 81, 87
Moore, Ursula (pseud.; UCLA student) 364
Moorea, Polynesia 570, 574, 575
Moorehead, Alan 589
Moreau, Jeanne 452–3, 579, 591, 676
Morehead, Jeff 395
Morley, Robert 204–5
Mormons 200
Morris, Phyllis 74, 676
Morris, William, Daughter of Silence 148
Morrow, Barbara 192, 201, 203, 676–7
Morrow, Vic 197, 201, 212–13, 676–7
Mortimer, John 224
Mortimer, Raymond 76, 677
Mortmere (imaginary village) 84, 89n, 448–9, 677
Mount Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles 482, 500, 542
Moving Target, The (film) 371
Moynihan, Diana 115
Muggeridge, Malcolm 77–8
Mukherjee, P.B. 312
Munich 408, 412
Munich crisis (1938) vii–viii, 9, 105, 106
Murdoch, Iris, An Unofficial Rose 172, 196, 197
Murdock, James 374, 677
Murphy, Franklin 483
Murphy, George 350
Murray, Alec 115
Murray, Don 40
Mutiny on the Bounty (film) 136
My Fair Lady (film) 344, 398
My Guru and His Disciple (C.I.) xxxiii, 48n
Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita 200
Nadelman, Elie 352
Nairn, Ian 464
Narada 581, 595, 596, 597, 598
Narendrapur, West Bengal 319–20
NASA 213n, 221
National Institute of Arts and Letters 155, 512n, 515–16, 677
National Portrait Gallery, London 548, 549, 552, 565, 677
Nava, Julian 455
Naylor, Richard 191–2
Ned Kelly (film) xxxv–xxxvi, 532, 561, 572, 585–9
Neddermeyer, Christian 73, 78, 677–8
Neddermeyer, Gerda 73, 78, 80, 81, 83, 677–8
Neddermeyer, Heinz xxxiii, 73, 76, 78, 80, 81, 83, 116n, 677–8
Needles, California 157
Nehru, Jawaharlal 135–7, 236–7
Nelson, Allyn 558, 678
Nero, Franco 434, 435
Nesbitt, Cathleen 204
New Republic (magazine) 171
New Statesman (magazine) 85, 95, 171
New York: C.I. joins Don Bachardy in: (1961) xiv, 145–57; (1963) 334; (1965) 351–3; Bachardy visits alone: (1960) 14, 16; (1961) 44; (1962) 201, 202, 204, 205, 206, 207; (1963-4) 299, 334, 335, 343, 344, 347, 348–9; (1965) 350, 360, 365-6, 368, 370, 388, 390, 391, 392, 393; (1967) 464–5, 467, 472–3
New York City Ballet 346, 347, 349, 351–2, 366
New York Herald Tribune 170, 171
New York Times, The 152, 171, 230, 424, 564
New Yorker, The (magazine) 298
New Zealand 571, 582–4
Newbolt, Henry 124
Newman, Nanette (Forbes) 120, 121
Newman, Paul 149
Newsweek (magazine) 183, 287
Nichols, Larry 444
Nichols, Mike 437, 678
Nicolson, Harold 443
Niem, Jan (Tony Richardson’s chauffeur) 83, 341, 678
Nietzsche, Friedrich 404
Night of the Iguana, The (film) 200, 201, 216
Night People (film) 482
Nikhilananda, Swami 304–5, 307, 308, 311, 312, 315, 320–21, 326–7, 330, 333, 678–9
Nin, Anaïs 235, 272, 391, 679; Diary 391, 403; A Spy in the House of Love 233
Nirvanananda, Swami (Sujji Maharaj) 279, 322, 324, 325, 679
Nishta (Countess Mabel Colloredo-Mansfeld) 304, 305, 306, 327, 330, 332, 621
Nixon, Richard 20, 24, 237, 531, 569, 592
Nizer, Louis, My Life in Court 361
Noel, Craig 518
North American Aviation Inc. 213–14
Nottingham 76, 78
Novák, Miroslav 314–15
nuclear tests 105, 106, 107, 130, 137, 203, 340; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963) 282
nuclear war, threat of 5, 49, 52, 55, 95, 106, 130, 139, 152, 224
Nureyev, Rudolf 567
Nys, Marguerite Balthus 297n
Nys de Hauleville Wessberg, Rose 297
Oakland, California 273
Oberndorf (Austria) 403, 408, 413
Oberon, Merle 182n, 215, 223, 679
Observer (newspaper) 118, 171
O’Crairdain, Sean 156
Oderberg, Phillip 261–2, 279, 281, 283, 285, 288, 343
Odets, Clifford 287
O’Hara, Frank 402–3
O’Hara, John, Sermons and Soda Water 157
O’Hilderbrandt, Mrs. (Santa Monica neighbor) 545, 679
Ohm, Carl 151
Old, Doreen (pseud.) 56
Old, Vernon (pseud.): appearance 56; visits C.I. 56; C.I.’s memories of 274, 377n, 495; 679–80
Olivier, Laurence 12, 110, 131, 196, 680
Olympic Games, Tokyo (1964) 302
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (film) 597
One, Incorporated 351, 354–5; One (magazine) 175, 351; 680
One-Eyed Jacks (film) 82
O’Neal, Kevin 137–8
O’Neal, (Patrick) Ryan 137–8
O’Neill, Donna 79, 87, 680
O’Neill, Eugene, Mourning Becomes Electra 130
Oppenheim, E. Phillips 49
Oppenheim, Mike 363
Oppenheimer, Robert 179n, 313
Orlovsky, Peter 387–8
Orpheus (Cocteau film) 457
Osborne, John: and Tony Richardson 72, 91, 109, 110, 481, 587; at London opening of Luther 91; marriage to Mary Ure 106n, 587; relationship with Jocelyn Rickards 106, 107, 108, 109, 114–15; relationship and marriage to Penelope Gilliatt 106n, 113, 115; in South of France 109, 110, 111; on antibomb demonstration 111, 113; 680–81
The Hotel in Amsterdam 481, 516n; “A Letter to My Fellow Countrymen” 101–2; Luther 73, 76, 78, 79, 91; A Patriot for Me 76n; Time Present 514n
Osmond, Cliff 363
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, 592–3; 685–7
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
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nbsp; 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
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