Liberation: Diaries:1970-1983

by Christopher Isherwood

  New York City Ballet 169

  New York marathon 599

  New York Mattachine Times 239

  New York Post 296

  New York Times, The 177, 230, 296; bestseller list 272

  New Yorker, The (magazine) 251, 638

  Newman, Bob 492, 493, 512, 527, 534–5, 777

  Newman, Lennie 245

  Newman, Paul 156, 777–8

  Newport Beach, California 396, 674

  Newsweek (magazine) 245, 453, 639, 642

  Niagara Falls 536, 538

  Nice, France 27, 30–31, 33, 35

  Nichiren Shoshu 524

  Nichols, Mike 193, 778

  Nicholson, Jack 207, 508

  Nicole (film) 369, 376–7

  Nicolson, Harold 397

  Nicolson, Nigel, Portrait of a Marriage 397

  Niedsialkowski, Stefan 71, 76

  Nielson, Bodie 337

  Niem, Jan (Tony Richardson’s chauffeur) 27, 33, 34, 778

  Night of the Iguana, The (film) 138

  Night Moves (film) 502

  Nijinsky, Vaslav 62, 67, 91, 328; Diary 249

  Nikhilananda, Swami 420, 778

  Nilson, Bent and Elizabeth 15

  Nîmes, France 33

  Nin, Anaïs 136, 501, 536, 778–9

  Nirmalananda (Tulsi Maharaj) 200

  Nixon, Richard: Gore Vidal on 10; and Vietnam War 82, 161, 261, 268, 779; 1972 presidential election (1972) 247, 261, 268, 277, 287, 288, 289, 290; possible impeachment 290, 355, 360, 416; Watergate 355, 358–9, 360, 367, 404, 425, 816–17; and bombing of Cambodia 359; resignation 447; pardoned 452, 527

  Nobel Prize for Literature 393, 443

  Noguera, Gary 590

  North, Melissa 76

  Nourse Auditorium, San Francisco 666

  nuclear war, threat of 32, 625–6, 642, 664

  nudists 283

  Nugent, Phyllis 493

  Nunn, Trevor 291

  Nureyev, Rudolf 18, 33, 35, 62n

  Oahu, Hawaii 95, 131

  Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona 116

  Oates, Warren 207

  Oberon, Merle 181, 187, 271–2, 405, 454, 624, 779

  O’Brien, Sean 324, 330, 459

  Observer, The (newspaper) 29, 42, 76

  Obst, Bryan 688

  Occidental College, Los Angeles 234

  Occidental Petroleum 250

  O’Connor, Frank 132

  October (C.I. and Don Bachardy): illustrations 618, 621, 664; writing and revision 618, 621, 623–4, 625, 626, 627, 629–30, 631–2, 633; readings from 634, 667; publication 644, 648, 649; sales 650

  O’Dell, Chris 504

  Oderberg, Phillip 100

  Oh! Calcutta (theatrical revue) 8, 11, 62

  O’Hilderbrandt, Mary Miles Minter 270, 491, 502, 655, 779

  oil companies 102, 250, 287, 416

  oil shortages and price rises 405, 416, 418, 527, 541, 546n, 630, 724

  Ojai, California 273

  Okun, Drew (Al Parker) 511

  Old, Vernon (pseud.) 283, 544, 609, 612, 614, 779–80

  Old Vic Theatre, London 11, 306

  Olitski, Jules 550

  Oliver, Michael 413

  Olivier, Julie Kate 631

  Olivier, Laurence (Larry) 491, 592, 631, 780

  Olivier, Richard 631

  Olsen, Dr. (skin specialist) 612

  Olympia, London 383

  Olympic Games: Munich (1972) 280; Moscow (1980) 630n

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy 534

  One, Incorporated 115–16, 299–300, 780; One (magazine) 47; National Gay Archives 634–5

  Open Theater Company 406–7

  Opliger, Curtis 374–5

  Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California 406

  Ordinary People (film) 669

  Oregon, criminal code 239

  O’Reilly, Anna 33, 39, 57, 780

  Orphanos, Stathis 239, 240, 299, 385, 491, 575, 780–81

  Orton, Joe 572, 573; Entertaining Mr. Sloane 45; The Ruffian on the Stair 574

  Osborne, John 508, 781; Look Back in Anger 69–70; A Sense of Detachment 320, 321; Watch It Come Down 515

  Osborne, Kipp 508

  Oscars see Academy Awards O’Shea, John 410, 487–8, 500, 506, 507, 545, 781

  Ossorio, Robert 509

  Outback (film) 216

  Owen, Wilfred 252

  Owens, Rodney (Rod) 385, 781

  Owens Valley, California 586

  Oxford, England 413, 512

  Oxford University 196, 322

  Oxnard, California 343, 518

  Ozawa, Roy 434

  Ozu, Yasujiro: The End of Summer 245; Tokyo Story 264

  Pabst, Georg Wilhelm: Diary of a Lost Girl 536, 538; Pandora’s Box 498

  Pacific Overtures (musical) 508

  Pacific Palisades, California 83, 116, 250n, 588

  Padula, Edward 297–8

  Page, Anthony (Tony) 52, 490n, 781–2

  Page, John 504

  Paget’s Disease 437, 782

  Pagett, Nicola 51, 318, 347, 380, 782

  Pagliai, Bruno 181

  Pakistan 155n

  Palavas, France 33

  Palermo, Carol 127, 129

  Paley, William (Bill) and Barbara (Babe) 173, 297, 782

  Pallenberg, Rospo and Barbara 494

  Palm Springs, California 399, 413, 430, 639; C.I. visits 348, 349, 410, 411–12

  Palmdale, California 556

  Palmer, Mark 198

  Palmerton, Joy 221, 511

  Palomar, California 95

  Palos Verdes, California 605

  Pandora’s Box (Pabst film) 498

  Paper Chase, The (film) 259, 281, 308, 313, 346, 355, 378, 385, 391, 405, 575

  “Paper Chase, The” (television series) 575, 582, 603

  Paramananda, Swami 224

  Paramount Pictures 387, 427

  Paris, C.I. visits 30–31

  Parker, Dorothy 162, 368, 782–3

  Parone, Ed 133–4, 226, 232, 236, 238, 252, 539, 783

  Pasadena, California 164, 364, 583; Vivekananda House 456

  Pasolini, Pier Paolo: Arabian Nights 511; The Canterbury Tales 511; The Decameron 311

  Patrick, Robert, Kennedy’s Children 504

  Paul Bunyan (operetta) 512

  “Paul” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit) 243, 566; C.I. and Don Bachardy’s draft screenplay 646, 651, 653, 658, 662, 665, 666, 668, 669, 670, 672, 673

  Pavitrananda, Swami 88, 101, 172, 175, 179, 246, 250, 260, 373, 425, 444, 445, 783

  Paxton, Larry 249

  Payne, Maurice 515, 587, 783

  Pears, Peter 487, 511–12, 783

  Pebworth, Ted-Larry 490

  Peege (film) 385

  Pelican Records 491, 496, 519, 521, 528

  Pendergast, Sister Mary Carita 536

  Penguin Books (publishers) 638–9

  Penn, Arthur 502

  Penn, William, Some Fruits of Solitude 421, 641

  Pentagon Papers 359n, 783

  Performance (film) 311

  Perry, Troy D. 45, 154, 183, 240, 243, 247, 299, 569, 783–4

  Perth, Scotland 512

  Peru, earthquake (1974) 435, 754

  Peter Rabbit (film) 178–9

  Peters, Gilbert (Gib) 94, 152, 437, 784

  Petit, Valentine 534

  Pfeiffer, Virginia (Jinny) 236, 280, 352, 784

  Phantom of the Opera (film) 441

  Picasso, Pablo, retrospective (MoMA New York, 1980) 650

  Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California 669

  Pincus, Joseph (hotel doctor) 302

  Pines, Burt 363

  Pinewood Studios, England 316

  Pinter, Harold 184; The Homecoming 496

  Pippin (musical) 308–9

  Plagens, Peter 593

  Plante, David 24–5, 27, 515, 784; The Ghost of Henry James 25

  Platypus Films 504, 505, 514, 537

  Playboy (magazine) 91, 144, 349

  Playfair, Nigel 11n

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p; Plomer, William xxiii, 394, 785

  Plowright, Joan 511, 631, 785

  Plummer, Christopher 62

  Pochath, Werner 496

  Poe, Barbara 221, 499, 785

  Poe, Edgar Allan 596; “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” 434

  Point Dume, California 395

  Point Mugu, California 442

  Polanski, Roman 227; Repulsion 217; The Tenant 518

  Pole, Rupert 536, 778–9

  Polidori, John 160n

  Polish Mime Ballet Theatre 71, 75–6

  Pollock, Jackson 80

  Pollock, Toby 485–6

  Pomerance, Bernard, The Elephant Man 648

  Pomona College, California 670

  Pope-Hennessy, James 324, 330, 459, 785

  population growth 642

  Post Office Tower, London 23, 27

  postal strike (in Britain) 145, 155

  pot (cannabis/marijuana) 52, 175, 290, 324, 410, 620

  Potter, Beatrix 137, 178

  Pound, Ezra: The A.B.C. of Reading 446; Cantos 444

  Powell, Jane 403

  Power, Tyrone 432, 594

  Powers, Tim 605

  Prabhaprana, Pravrajika (Prabha; earlier Phoebe Nixon) 468, 540–41, 543, 547, 785–6

  Prabhavananda, Swami: C.I.’s fears of embarrassing xxv, xxvii, 97, 162; leadership of Vedanta Society xxv–xxvi, xxx, 109–110, 124, 210–211, 218–19; concerns for the future of the Society xxv–xxvi, 109; C.I.’s devotion to xxvi–xxvii, xl, 101, 167, 224, 282, 407; views on sex xxxiv, 397–8; dreams 2, 200; ill-health 2, 85, 88, 125, 134, 147, 158, 191, 195, 198, 199, 200, 203, 205, 208–9, 210, 213–14, 363, 368, 397, 419, 427, 429, 448–9, 450, 452, 473; on body and mind 5, 93; and Peter Schneider 5, 93, 108, 237, 273, 274, 353; translation of Shankara’s Crest Jewel of Discrimination with C.I. 47, 60; Bhaghavad Gita translation with C.I. 64; counsel to C.I. 82, 101, 103, 105–6, 107, 129–30, 284, 286–7, 413–14, 482–3; meditation 93, 258, 356, 369, 397; and Jim Gates 94, 161, 237, 353, 484, 594; and Brahmananda (Maharaj) 110, 127, 148, 166, 200, 203, 219–20, 222, 237, 250, 261, 280, 281, 282, 345, 346, 353, 355, 363, 365–6, 397, 413, 418, 436, 439, 440, 452; on education 110; C.I. dreams about 114, 419, 472, 480, 543, 671; C.I. takes the dust of his feet 114, 116, 175, 221; holiday in Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona 116, 124–5; C.I. contemplates memoir of 119; birthdays 128, 214, 413–14, 488; and Ramakrishna 129–30, 221–2, 348, 355, 436; in Mount Sinai Hospital 133, 134; on declining numbers of monks at Belur Math 137; reaction to earthquake 140; visions 147, 200, 260, 435–6, 473; never depressed 148; young disciples 152–3, 224–6, 660; blesses baby 158; The Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta 164, 179, 623; unprovoked by Haridas 166; on C.I.’s humility 175; on use of pot 175; and Prema (Vidyatmananda) 179, 344–5; recollection of being groped by Hindu priest 182–3; and runaway monk 186; and Gerald Heard 189, 237, 246, 354, 374; at Trabuco 189, 190–91, 248; and Michael Barrie 190, 191, 192; convalesces at Santa Barbara 195, 198, 203, 205; on death and dying 200n, 286–7, 352, 353; and Krishna (George Fitts) 210, 226, 250, 287, 356, 397, 469, 482, 557, 679; gives C.I. accounts of his life 219–20, 221–2; “personality cult” of 223–5; and jealousy 227–8; making japam 233, 368; at Father’s Day celebrations 236, 373–4, 440; on mantras for initiations 236; and construction work at Hollywood Center 237, 246, 431, 434; opposes sale of land at Trabuco 237; holidays in Malibu with Pavitrananda 246, 250–51, 255, 260, 262–3, 265–6, 269, 445; translation of Saradananda’s Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga 250; The Eternal Companion: Brahmananda, His Life and Teachings 251, 413n, 532; weight 255, 261, 410; and Premananda and Turiyananda 261, 281; no desire to return to India 280; cataracts 281, 282, 356, 488; C.I. interviews about his childhood 287; dizzy spells 287, 305, 345, 346, 448; on ages of Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi, Vivekananda and Brahmananda 294; New Year greetings to C.I. 309; blesses C.I. and Don Bachardy before their trip to England 313; on Yogeshananda (Buddha Chaitanya) 327; and death of Mokshada 348–9; recalls double hernia operation 353; encourages C.I. to rejoin monastery 354; and Sarada (Ruth Folling) 354, 361, 365n; C.I. receives spiritual vibration from 355–6; and Joseph Kaplan 360–61; celebration of fifty years in United States 361; devotee dreams of being initiated by 365; lectures at Sarada Convent 368, 442; Seven Upanishads translation with C.I. 373; at Durga puja in Santa Barbara 396, 397; on God’s love 413–14; rebukes Asaktananda 418–19, 463; holidays near Montecito convent 420; and Nikhilananda 420; at Ramakrishna puja 422; and Girish Ghosh 436; shocked by C.I.’s questions 440; dismisses nun 444; C.I. transcribes taped reminiscences 452, 456; and Sudhira 452; lecture on Holy Mother 454; and Abedha 456; at Kali puja preparations 461; on Belur Math’s regulations 464, 482; decides against appointing Asaktananda as successor 467–8, 470, 480; requests Lokeswarananda as successor 467–8, 470, 473; recalls joke played by Larry Holt 469–70; refusal of lesbian woman’s application to be a nun 479; and Belur Math’s appointment of successor 486, 526; final illness 510; death 517, 525; special worship and memorial services for 518, 537, 547–8; C.I. remembers and prays to after death 522, 535, 537, 543, 555, 558, 560, 563, 622, 630, 641, 643, 664, 668, 675, 678, 679, 681, 682, 686; his bead added to C.I.’s rosary 537; anniversary of death 544; 786–7; see also My Guru and His Disciple

  Prabuddhananda, Swami 266, 518

  Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain 517–518

  Prater Violet (C.I.) 180–181, 273, 434, 538

  Prema Chaitanya (earlier John Yale; afterwards Swami Vidyatmananda; Vidya): trips to India xxvii, 179, 344; and Prabhavananda 179, 344–5; appearance 343–4; at Gretz Vedanta Center in France 343, 344; stays at Hollywood Vedanta Center during trip to Los Angeles 343–5; sends C.I. a copy of Atulananda’s talks 575; and C.I.’s My Guru and His Disciple 592, 618; and Ritajananda 622; 787–8

  Premananda, Swami 261, 281, 439, 788

  presidential election 1972 235, 246–7, 261–2, 268, 277, 287, 288, 289, 290, 299n

  presidential election 1980 623, 625–6, 657, 658

  Presley, Elvis 148, 403

  Preston, John 476

  Price, Coral see Browne, Coral Price, Dan 288

  Price, Kenneth (Ken) xix, 107, 381, 788

  Price, Vincent 491, 503, 682, 788–9; Diversions and Delights 559, 582

  Prideaux, James, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln 304–5

  Prince, Hal 307, 789

  Prince, William 439

  Pringle, Chuck 517

  Procktor, Patrick 24, 29, 43, 47, 66, 511, 789

  Proposition 6 (California, 1978; “Briggs Initiative”) 569–70, 575, 576–7, 586, 587, 590, 594, 599, 600

  Proposition 20 (California, 1972) 291

  Prosser, Grace 492

  Prosser, Lee 163, 276, 492, 789–90

  Prosser, Mandy 492

  Prosser, Mary 163

  Proust, Marcel 213, 300, 618; Cities of the Plain 178; Swann’s Way 178

  Prouting, Norman 8, 11–12, 25, 70, 75, 790

  Pryor, Richard 549

  Publishers Weekly (magazine) 529

  Pucciani, Oreste 253

  Puerto Escondido, Mexico 536, 538

  Pugsley, Tom (driver) 314, 336

  Punishment Park (film) 195

  Purchase, Bonnie 571

  Pynchon, Thomas, Gravity’s Rainbow 358

  Quakers 106n, 570, 613, 615, 640, 677

  Quennell, Sonia Leon “Spider” 67

  Quinn, Joan 656, 661, 790

  Quintero, José 510

  Quito, Ecuador 437

  Rabb, Ellis 91, 93, 99, 790

  race riots 549n1

  Raeburn, Andrew 413

  Raft, George 659

  Railton, Jeremy 229

  Ramakrishna: cross-dressing xxvii; and C.I.’s meditation 101, 105–6; on education 110; and Prabhavananda 129–30, 348, 355, 436; puja 151, 221–2, 346, 422, 499; young disciples 153; Gerald Heard dreams about 183, 246; and Brahmananda (Maharaj) 219, 222, 355; mango tree planted at Kamarpukur 348; in C.I.’s My Guru and His Disciple 607; 790–91

  Ramakrishna and His Disciples (C.
I.) xxvi–xxvii, 383, 598

  Ramirez, Darren 145–6, 659

  Rampling, Charlotte 496, 498, 791

  Ramsey, Logan 230

  Rancho Mirage, California 413

  Rappaport, Michelle 646, 671, 791

  Rassine, Alexis 68–9, 791

  Rattigan, Terence, Separate Tables 51, 543

  Rauch, Doug 152, 191, 791

  Rauschenberg, Robert 576, 791–2

  Rauth, Thomas (dentist) 522–3

  Raya, George 493

  Razor’s Edge, The (film) 594

  Reagan, Nancy 374

  Reagan, Ronald 373, 657, 658; assassination attempt 669, 792

  Reams, Lee Roy 238

  Rebecca (Hitchcock film) 264

  recessions, economic 81, 181, 196, 792

  Rechy, John 234, 485, 792

  Red Buddha Theater (theater company) 329

  “red tides”179, 180, 185

  Redgrave, Corin 24, 62, 417, 792

  Redgrave, Lynn 61, 63

  Redgrave, Vanessa 24, 35, 211, 417, 792–3; The Lady from the Sea 508

  referendums, 1972 290–91; 1978 569–70, 575, 576–7, 586, 587, 590, 594, 599, 600

  Regester, James Robert (Bob): relationship with Neil Hartley ix, 35, 62–3, 72, 74, 319; in London 12, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 57, 62, 67, 318–19; in South of France 33, 34, 35, 37, 72; visits Forster in Cambridge with C.I. 71–2, 74–5; in New York 305–6, 509, 518; 793

  Reid, Roger 504

  Reif, Adelbert and Ruth 616

  Reinhardt, Edmund 382

  Reinhardt, Gottfried 364, 366, 370, 380, 602, 793

  Reinhardt, Max: memorial concert at Hollywood Bowl 366, 370, 379–80, 385–7; character and career 370, 382–4; 793–4

  Reinhardt, Silvia 364, 366, 602

  Reinhardt, Wolfgang 370, 794

  Repulsion (film) 217

  Revere, Paul 495

  Reynolds, Jane 637

  Richardson, Tony: aging and ill-health xxxviii, 442; quarrel with Henry Geldzahler 12; C.I. socializes with in London 17–18, 67, 69–70, 317; C.I. stays with in South of France 27, 33–8, 56; false alarm over car accident 27; dislike of John Hopkins 28; proposed studio for David Hockney 37, 38; on Edward Albee 38; finances 38; relations with C.I. 38; moods 57, 67; and Neil Hartley 57, 62, 441; proposed Nijinsky film 62, 67, 91–2; and Gavin Lambert 215, 573; relationship with Grizelda Grimond 215, 317; house in Australia 258, 310; C.I. socializes with in California 416–17, 441, 442, 490, 492, 493, 527, 534, 572–3, 587, 592, 607, 621–2, 626, 683; and Vanessa Redgrave 417; and Walter Lassally 438; resigns from Mahogany 463; and John Boorman 527; preference for life in Los Angeles 528; turns down Bob Gordon’s Leaks 528; on Kenneth Tynan 532; and Jackie Onassis 534; on Orton’s plays 573; and David Hockney 587; 794–5