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
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