Salzburg 408, 412, 413–16
Sambuddhananda, Swami 321–2, 401, 695
Samoa 571, 576, 577–8, 579 –81
Sampson, Arnim (Mitto) 72n
Samuels, Lesser 35n
San Diego 518
San Francisco: C.I.’s fondness for 413, 589; C.I.’s trips to (1962) 219, 220–21; (1963) xxi, 269, 273–6; (1967) 469, 471–2, 484– 92; the “scene” 473
San Juan Capistrano 174
Sandwich, George Montagu, 9th Earl of 103, 197–8
Sankarananda, Swami see Shankarananda, Swami
Santa Barbara: Vedanta temple see Sarada Convent; KEYT television show 17, 18; Museum of Art 238; Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions 503–4
Santa Barbara, University of California at, C.I. lectures and teaches at xii, 6 & n, 8, 9, 11–12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 25, 27–8, 33–4, 132, 187, 663
Santa Cruz 488, 489 –90
Santa Cruz, University of California at 489 –92
Santa Fe, New Mexico 216, 347, 441
Santa Monica boardwalk 495
Santa Monica Canyon, development of 276, 385, 388, 389, 465, 467, 469 –70, 497
Sarada (earlier Ruth Folling) 9, 132, 240, 339 – 40, 410, 469; leaves convent 383, 395; 696
Sarada Convent, Montecito 24n, 26, 256, 278, 343; C.I. speaks at 86, 285; 696
Sarada Devi (Holy Mother) 103, 198, 248, 279, 303, 310, 328, 338, 438, 562, 696
Sardou, Victorien and Emile de Najac, Let’s Get a Divorce 491
Sartre, Jean-Paul: No Exit 381; The Words 470
Sarvagatananda, Swami 226
Sastrananda 393
Satprakashananda, Swami 212, 696
Saturday Review (magazine) 171
Sawtelle Veterans Hospital, Los Angeles 10–11
Schaefer, George 512
Schary, Dore 319, 696 –7
Scheler, Max 216
Schenck, Marvin 590, 697
Schenkel, John 211, 697
Schlesinger, Peter 505–6, 508, 521, 593, 697
Schneider, Peter 555–6, 556 –7, 557–8, 561, 562, 563–4, 565, 569, 575, 576, 591, 596, 697–8
Schorer, Mark 33, 166, 237, 238, 273, 698; Sinclair Lewis 134
Schorer, Ruth 33
Schreiber, Taft 49, 252, 698
Schubach, Scott 2–3, 244–5, 698
Schuster, Max 156
Schwartz, Jacob 67
Schwed, Peter 114, 116, 156, 296, 698
Scott, Robert Falcon 217
Scott, Zachary 189
Scott Gilbert, Clement 566, 593, 594, 598, 699
Screen Gems (television company) 499 Seagull, The (film) 534
Sean, Michael (Allan Carter) 365, 396, 397, 405–6
Searle, Alan 112, 119, 121–2, 384, 699
Seattle World’s Fair (1962) 179
Seldis, Henry J. 224
Sellers, Dr. Alvin 131, 141, 699
Selznick, Daniel 598
Selznick, David O.: friendship and socializing with C.I. 20, 39, 195, 350; political views 20, 39, 350; enthusiasm for C.I.’s Down There on a Visit 160, 167; in New York 169; Don Bachardy’s drawing of 219; death and funeral 368–9, 370; planned film of Hersey’s The Wall 370–71; Bob Thomas’s biography 541; 699
Selznick, Irene 598
Selznick, Jennifer see Jones, Jennifer
Sen, Keshab 178
Sewell, Elizabeth 191
Shakespeare, William 85, 143, 342; Aldous Huxley’s last essay on 297, 298, 335n All’s Well That Ends Well 210n, 554; Antony and Cleopatra 451; Cymbeline 143; Hamlet 54, 518; Henry VI 140; Henry VIII 143; King John 59; Macbeth 138, 140, 148, 169; Othello 114, 124; Pericles 143; Richard II 52, 101; Richard III 143; Romeo and Juliet 285; The Tempest 252; Timon of Athens 143; Titus Andronicus 143; A Winter’s Tale 143
Shankarananda, Swami 303, 322
Shanti Ashrama, California 279, 480n
Shasta, Dick (pseud.) 500
Shaw, George Bernard 122, 352, 544
Androcles and the Lion 366; The Doctor’s Dilemma 479; Saint Joan 520; see also Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, The
Shaw, Johnno 207
Shaw, Robert 107, 113
Shawe-Taylor, Desmond 76, 699 –700
Sheen, Monsignor Fulton J. 317
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein 366
Shepherd, Michael 121
Sheridan, Ted 221
Shikiya, Mr. (gardener) 230, 280
Shoes of the Fisherman (film) 395, 396, 399, 422
Show Magazine 298, 346
Shraddha (Dorothy Louis) 226
Shroyer, Frederick 173–4, 191, 700
Siddhartha 564–5 Sidebotham, Mr. (Isherwood family solicitor) 51, 60, 134, 159
Sikra Kulingram, West Bengal 322, 324, 327
“Silent Night” (song), C.I. works on television special about xxxiii, 401, 403, 407, 422, 425, 428, 534, 536, 597
Sillitoe, Alan 94, 114
Sillitoe, Ruth 94
Simon and Garfunkel (singer-songwriter duo) 446
Simon and Schuster (publishers) 156; and Down There on a Visit 75, 79, 80, 87, 103, 114, 147, 159; and A Single Man 290, 296; and Ramakrishna and His Disciples 336; and Exhumations 351; and A Meeting by the River 423
Simpson, James B. 209
Sinatra, Frank 498
Singh, Bhag 318
Single Man, A (C.I.; earlier title The Englishwoman): Don Bachardy’s suggestions for xvii, xviii, 223, 246, 248, 264, 282, 283, 289, 296; modelled on Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway xvii–xviii; themes and symbolism xvii, xviii, 186, 221, 236, 246, 293, 295, 335, 405; C.I. views as his “masterpiece” xviii, 241, 291, 349; title 171, 223, 283, 294, 296; writing first draft 171, 173, 177, 178, 179, 180, 186, 193, 200, 202, 209, 211, 216, 219, 221, 224, 227, 241, 247, 248–9, 258, 260, 262, 264; characterization 223, 246, 283, 287, 289, 290, 468; second draft 266, 267, 269, 271, 275, 277, 280, 282; Gavin Lambert comments on draft 283; Edward Upward praises 284, 285, 287; dedication 289; Jerry Lawrence comments on draft 290; preparations for publication 290; response from agents and publishers 291, 296, 298; Chris Wood praises 293; refused by New Yorker magazine 298; Auden’s views on 335; dust-jacket 336; Gerald Heard praises 338; publication 340; reviews 341; word length 376; Iris Tree’s reading of 430–31; Tony Garrett praises 487; C.I. reads extract to students at U.C. Santa Cruz 489; possible film version 507, 543–4
Sino-Indian War 236 –7, 242, 243, 700
Sio, Kewlian 329
Siporin, Thomas Victor 364
Sitwell, Edith 98
skateboarding 365
Slade School of Fine Art, London xiii, 37, 41
Sleep, Wayne 565, 567, 700
Small, Bill (pseud.) 14–15
Smith, Bradley (bookseller) 166 –7n
Smith, David (student at L.A. State) 192, 289, 383, 700
Smith, Dodie see Beesley, Dodie Smith
Smith, Emily Machell (C.I.’s grandmother) xxxv, 92, 451, 459, 461, 511, 700
Smith, Frederick Machell (C.I.’s grandfather) 511
Smith, Jack (Cheshire farmhand) 89 –90, 93, 124
Smith, Katharine (Mrs. Ivan Moffat; Kate) 79, 139, 169, 176 –7, 184, 450, 700
Smith, Margot 200, 204, 205–6, 701
smog 41–2, 214, 377, 465, 486, 567
Snow, C.P. 32, 191
Socrates xii, 6 & n, 7, 35, 154
Sohn, Ira 363
Sontag, Susan, “Notes on ‘Camp’” xxviii
Sorel, Jean 149n
Sorel, Paul 450, 556, 701
Soule[s], Gerard 228, 229
South Africa 464, 475; Boer War 542, 544, 560
Southern, Terry 256 –7, 341, 701
Spaak, Paul Henri 155
space exploration 63, 99, 213–14, 221, 534; moon landing (1969) 569, 570, 577
Spar, Al 201, 211, 259 Spectator (magazine) 95
Spencer, Dick (architect) 544
Spender, Elizabeth (Lizzie)
505, 506, 701
Spender, Matthew 59, 88, 505, 701
Spender, Natasha 84, 167, 168, 349, 505, 701
Spender, Stephen: and Don Bachardy’s application to Slade 37, 41, 42, 43, 68; and Angus Wilson 59 –60; C.I. visits and socializes with in London (1961) 59 –60, 67–8, 82, 88–9; and Auden 60, 349, 444, 505; Bachardy’s dislike of 68, 84, 122, 167, 168–9; and British television show about thirties 73, 77, 79; at Glyndebourne 84; character 88–9; and C.I.’s proposed article on Virginia Woolf for Encounter 126, 130; reading of C.I.’s Down There on a Visit 126; in California 167, 168–9, 349, 502, 503–5, 505–6; C.I. feels vindictive towards 179; article on Aldous Huxley 299; at Bachardy’s opening at Banfer Gallery, New York 344; appearance 349, 504; marriage 349, 505; and CIA’s funding of Encounter 453; at conference at Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara 503–4, 505; concern about riots following Martin Luther King assassination 504–5, 506; on Germany 505; and David Hockney 506, 508; meets Eugene McCarthy on plane 508; in article on “British Writers and the Austria of the Thirties” 552; 702
Spigelgass, Leonard 287
Springfield, Missouri 286
Stacton, David, Old Acquaintance 239
Stalin, Joseph: exposure of purges 130n, 142; removal of body from mausoleum 130
Stanford University 266, 267, 271
Stanwyck, Barbara 118, 192
Starcke, Walter 10, 702–3
Stark, Bruce 507
Steen, Mike 170, 180, 469, 479, 703
Stein, Gertrude, Three Lives 184
Steinbeck, John 236
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), The Charterhouse of Parma 183, 184, 188, 196
Stephens, Robert 114
Stern, James (Jimmy) 103, 114, 119, 120, 400, 703
Stern, Peter 103
Stern, Tania Kurella 114, 119, 120, 400, 703
Sterne, Laurence 144
Stevens, Marti 498, 703
Stevens, Wallace 471
Stevens, Dr. (dentist) 270–71, 300, 344
Stevenson, Robert Louis 378; C.I. visits house and grave in Samoa 571, 578, 579 –80 “The Beach at Falesá” 3, 6, 159; “The Suicide Club” 150; “Requiem” 580 & n Stewart, Donald Ogden 97, 703–4
Stewart, Serena 149
Stone, Irving 135, 136
Storke, Thomas 249
Story, Alice (Ala) 261
Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz, Rudolf 573, 704
Stratford-on-Avon 106, 114, 124
Stravinsky, Igor: C.I. socializes with 55, 56, 250, 254, 262–3, 292, 294, 348, 359, 372, 378–9, 405, 523–4, 572, 579; Don Bachardy’s drawings of 67–8, 114, 119, 215; in New York 156, 594, 597; books of conversations with Robert Craft 179, 203, 208, 236, 262, 263, 379; concert tours 179, 210, 249, 442; and T.S. Eliot 179; C.I. declines to provide anecdotes on 183; in Santa Fe 216; visits Russia 250; black thoughts 262; drinking 262–3; health 290, 292, 294, 348, 372, 378, 464, 481, 524, 535–6, 540–41, 542, 552, 558–9, 572, 579, 597; C.I. dreams about 338; on composition 359; A Stravinsky Portrait (documentary film) 359; quarrel with Robert Craft 374, 379; on novelists and writing 378; on picture frames 378–9; Ed Allen acts as attendant 379; C.I.’s admiration for marriage 400; Requiem Canticles 405; C.I. feels snobbish about knowing 500; plans to leave Los Angeles to settle in Europe 524, 533; religion 541; fear of death 542, 572; and Mirandi Levy 552; financial problems 572, 597; 704
Stravinsky, Vera: Don Bachardy’s drawing of 12; C.I. socializes with 55, 56, 250, 254, 262–3, 292, 348, 359, 372, 378–9, 405, 523–4, 535–6, 572, 579; in New York 156, 594, 597; saying on personal needs 168; recommends gardener 174; concert tours 179, 210, 249, 442; on enemies among critics 179; in Santa Fe 216; visits Russia 250; relations with Robert Craft 263; on Igor’s health 290, 292, 540–41; gives champagne as birthday present to C.I. 374; C.I.’s admiration for marriage 400; injures leg in minor car accident 405; name day celebrations 480; C.I. feels snobbish about knowing 500; health 523–4; plans to leave Los Angeles to settle in Europe 524, 533, 572; in Paris 533; birthday celebrations in California 535–6; C.I. takes to see Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search of God 552; financial problems 572, 597; resentful of Igor’s children 572; 704–5
Street, Clare (Amul) 319
Strensall (Yorkshire) 445
Stride, John 184
Strindberg, August 188
Stromberg, Hunt, Jr. 479n, 493, 494, 495, 499, 500, 519, 705
Stross, Raymond 585
Sturges, Solomon 185
Stuurman, Douwe: friendship and socializing with C.I. 12, 21, 30, 249; character 20, 22–3, 33; house at Isla Vista 21, 30; second marriage 21, 22; and UCSB staff 27; visits Berkeley writers’ conference with C.I. 32, 33–4; birthday (1961) 41, 42–3; C.I.’s relations with 53; 705
Sudhira (Helen Kennedy) 478, 705
Suez Crisis (1956) 96, 97n
Sujji Maharaj see Nirvanananda, Swami
Sunday Times, The 171, 243
Surmelian, Leon 280, 519, 705–6
Susann, Jacqueline, Valley of the Dolls 498
Sutherland, Graham 88–9
Sutro, John 45, 51, 59, 60, 63, 706
Swahananda, Swami 525, 706
Swamiji see Vivekananda, Swami
Sweeting, Charles 366
Swinburne, Algernon 494
Sydney 571, 584, 585, 589 –90
Sykes family (Australian ranchers) 586 –7
Sykes, Gerald 170
syphilis 199, 200, 456
Tagore, Rabindranath 145, 311; Gitangali 575
Tahiti xxxv, 569, 570–71, 573–4, 575, 576, 580, 591
Takami, Hideki 536
Taking Mood, The (film) 583
Tangier xx, 256, 257, 315
Tanny, Vic 44
Tarafdar, D.P. 311, 312
Taste of Honey, A (Delaney; play) 4, 5, 6, 9 –10, 12, 24
Taste of Honey, A (film) 60–61, 111, 114n
Tate, Sharon 521–2, 573, 579, 706
Taylor, Elizabeth 342
Taylor, Jay 319
Taylor, Paul 88, 222
Teleny (anonymous novel) 485
Teller, Edward 179, 285, 706 –7
“Tempo” (British television program) 118
Tennant, Stephen 76 –7, 707
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 335
Ter-Arutunian, Rouben 352
Testament of Orpheus, The (film) 559
Texas, Hurricane Carla 111
Texas, University of, purchase of literary manuscripts 102, 103
That Man from Rio (film) 347
Theater in the Street (charitable organization) 550
Theater West, Los Angeles 578
Thimann, Kenneth 489
Thirroul, Australia 571, 589
Thom, Richard (Dick) 133, 494, 497, 707
Thom, Tommy 507
Thomas, Bob, Selznick 541
Thomas, Dylan 3, 483, 498
Thomas, Hugh 77, 78, 81
Thompson, John Lee 462
Thompson, Nicholas 548, 563, 707
Thomson, Virgil 392, 555, 707–8
Thornhill, Anthony 451
Thornton, Edward, The Diary of a Mystic 594–5
Thurber, James 575
Time (magazine) 79, 160, 171, 264, 285, 287, 310, 512
Time and Tide (magazine) 211
Times, The 120
Titov, German 99
Tokyo 301, 302–3
Toland, John, The Last 100 Days 431