Brookhiser, Richard 104
Brooks, Albert 93
Brooks, David 105
Brooks, Mel 89, 97
Brooks, Van Wyck 11, 203
Brothers Ashkenazi, The (Singer) 453–456
Brown, David S. 267
Brown, E. K. 222
Brown v. Board of Education 434
Bruce, Lenny 91, 415
Bruhn, Bob 141
Bryce, James 333, 501
Buber, Martin 439
Buckley, William F., Jr. 48
Buddenbrooks (Mann) 489
Burckhardt, Jacob 457–460, 506, 538
Burdon-Muller, Rowland 239–241
Bush, George H. W. 102–103
Bush, George W. 103
Butterfield 8 (O’Hara) 262
Byron, Lord 62, 370
C
Caesar, Julius 202, 467, 510
Callahan, Frankie 424–425
Camus, Albert 38, 118–120, 123
Capote, Truman 171, 358–359
Carlyle, Thomas 312, 375
Carmichael, Stokely 129, 131, 435
Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights (Hartnett) 432, 434
Carolina Israelite 433–434, 436
Carr, E. H. 1, 243
Carson, Rachel 279
Carstensen, Laura 84
Carter, Jimmy 101
Carter, Mark Bonham 246
cartoons 90–91, 93–94, 343
Castiglione, Baldesar 458, 505–508
Castle, The (Kafka) 166
Catch-22 (Heller) 71, 129, 211
Cather, Willa 7, 16–17, 215–223
early life of 218–219
Catholicism 207, 445
Gibbon and 302
Powers and 298
Waugh and 289–294
Catholic Worker, The 294
Cavafy, Constantine P. 112
Cellini, Benvenuto 458, 473
Cervantes, Miguel de 33, 158–159, 254, 384
Chagall, Marc 392
Chandler, Robert 495
Chang, Ruth 248
Chanson de Roland 157, 194
Chaplin, Charlie 388, 407, 411
Character and Opinion in the United States (Santayana) 501
Charlie Hebdo 114
Charnwood, Lord 501–504
Chase, Salmon P. 502
Chast, Roz 94
Chaucer, Geoffrey 297
Cheever, John 260, 280
Chekhov, Anton 230, 356, 375, 381, 469, 493
“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” (The Christmas Song) 447
Chicago, University of 9–11, 15–16, 50, 74, 132, 137–147, 336, 404, 533, 541
Chisholm, Hugh 335
Chomsky, Noam 246
Christie, Agatha 287, 359
Christmas 443–450
Churchill, Randolph 283
Churchill, Winston 59, 237
anti-Semitism of 242
death of 19
wit of 50–51, 54
Cicero 18, 314, 366–368, 459, 462, 477, 510–511, 530
Cicero and His Friends (Boissier) 367
Cicerone (Burckhardt) 457
Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud) 143
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, The (Burckhardt) 457, 460, 506
civil-rights 73, 432–435
Civil War 7, 19, 71–72, 184, 366, 502, 502–503
Civil War, Spanish 7, 19, 184, 366
Claremont Review of Books 3, 199
Clarissa (Richardson) 360
Claudius 18, 323, 329, 467, 485, 499
clichés 2, 49, 347–353, 412, 436
Clinton, Bill 101, 104–105
Clinton, Hillary 106–107
Clooney, George 124
Coach: A Story of New York Cool (Dinerstein) 117
Cocoanuts, The 410–412
Coetzee, J. M. 38
Colbert, Stephen 96
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 63, 199, 358
Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell (Orwell) 173
Collins, Gail 51
Colum, Mary 294
Colum, Padraic 294
Commentary 42, 357, 392, 434, 438
Commonweal 294, 296
Communism 99, 138, 179, 180, 233, 245, 361
Company She Keeps, The (McCarthy) 356
Complete Plain Words, The (Gowers) 481
Compulsion (Levin) 517
Concise Oxford Dictionary (Fowler) 481
Congreve, William 47
Connolly, Cyril 359
on Orwell 173–174, 177–178
Conquest, Robert 213
Conroy, Jack 297
Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline (Montesquieu) 461
Consolation of Philosophy, The (Boethius) 305
Cooke, Alistair 241, 242
cool 3, 117–125
Cooper, Diana
on Gardner 288
Shaw-Stewart on 247
Waugh and 284, 286
Corvick, George 369
Costigliola, Frank 227, 229
Country of the Pointed Firs, The (Jewett) 220
Cousins, Norman 100
cowardice 3, 67–75, 211, 244, 245, 328, 541
Cowardice: A Brief History (Walsh) 70
Coward, Noël 193, 292, 529
wit of 50–51
Cowley, Malcolm 269
Cowling, Dale 446
Cowling, Sam 446
Crack-Up, The (Fitzgerald) 268
Craft, Robert 242
Crane, Stephen 71, 334
Crawford, Joan 109
Crawford, Robert 201, 205, 208
Crick, Bernard 181
Croesus 31, 39, 316–317, 320, 527–528
Crosby, Bing 375, 445–446
Cross, Leach 424
Crossman, R. H. S. 235
Cuchord, Suzanne 301
“Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions” (Kroeber, Kluckhohn) 8
Curb Your Enthusiasm 98
Cymbeline (Shakespeare) 71
D
d’Alembert, Jean 331
Dali, Salvador 412
Dangerfield, Rodney 91, 403
Dante 59, 208, 458, 540
Auerbach on 153–154, 156, 158–159
on cowardice 71
Dante: Poet of the Secular World (Auerbach) 153, 158
D’Arcy, Brian 294
D’Arcy, Martin 289
Darwin, Charles 15, 59, 64, 375, 502
Dauber, Jeremy 381, 383, 385, 387–388, 392–393
Davenport, Guy 260
David, Larry 98
Davies, Christie 98
Da Vinci, Leonardo 59
Davis, Jefferson 503
Davis, Miles 118
Davis, Rennie 124
Day, Doris 53
Dead Souls (Gogol) 469–472
Dean, James 118, 122–123
death 33–45, 78, 100, 109, 395–396, 498, 529, 530, 538–540
Auden on 34
Brombert on 39–40
Cather on 41
cowardice and 68–70
Epictetus on 479
Epicurus on 35
Farber on 42
in warrior societies 84
Johnson on 86
Larkin on 37–38
Mann on 38
Montaigne on 36–37, 538
Plato on 43
Proust on 532
Schopenhau
er on 35
Seneca’s 538
Stoics on 462
Tolstoy on 39
Turgenev on 34
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather) 17, 215–216, 219
Death in Venice (Mann) 38, 489
Death of Ivan Ilych, The (Tolstoy) 39
De Beauvoir, Simone 118, 120–121
Decline of Bismarck’s European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, The (Kennan) 231
Defense, The (Nabokov) 475
Descartes, René 59, 62, 249, 254
De Stael, Madame 20, 301
Devils, The (Dostoyevsky) 356
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (American Psychiatric Association) 72
Dialogues and a Diary (Craft) 242
Dialogus (Tacitus) 323
DiCaprio, Leonardo 58
Dickens, Charles 39, 59, 172, 332, 384
Orwell on 181–182
rivalry with Thackeray 359–360
Dictionary of Modern English Usage, A (Fowler) 481–482
Diderot, Denis 331
Die Laughing: Killer Jokes for Newly Old Folks (Novak) 399
Dinerstein, Joel 117–125
Discourses on Livy (Machiavelli) 465, 529
Disraeli, Benjamin 54, 176, 375
Divine Comedy (Dante) 158–159
Divine Fury, A History of Genius (McMahon) 60–61
Dodick, John 425
Don McNeill’s The Breakfast Club 446
Don Quixote (Cervantes) 158, 177, 389
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 16, 59, 228, 230, 356, 381, 469, 493
Berlin on 246
Douglas, Norman 193
Down and Out in Paris and London (Orwell) 174
Drabble, Margaret 248
“Drefuss in Kasrilevke” (Aleichem) 391
Dreiser, Theodore 156, 358, 519
Drummond, William 13
Dryden, John 57
Duchamp, Marcel 15
Duck Soup 410–411
Dudley, Donald R. 323, 328
Duffy, “Oakland” Jimmy 425
Dulles, Allen 103
Dulles, John Foster 103, 226
Dumont, Margaret 410, 412
Dunbar, William 256
Durante, Jimmy 317, 407
Dylan, Bob 123, 129
E
Eade, Philip 284–285, 287, 289
Eagleton, Terry 172, 248
Eastwood, Clint 118
Easy Rider 129
Eddy, Mary Baker 219
Edel, Leon 16, 230, 369–371
Edinburgh Review 54
Edison, Thomas 61, 375
Egoist 206
Eichmann, Adolf 495
trial of 431, 438
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt) 243, 278
“Eighteen from Pereshchepena” (Aleichem) 382
Einstein, Albert
as genius 60, 240
Eisenhower, Dwight David 97, 226
Elements of Wit (Errett) 48, 50–51, 54–55
Eliade, Mircea 10
Eliot, George 20, 375
Eliot, T. S. 16, 17, 151, 176, 194, 199–208, 240, 254, 265, 289, 342, 374, 385
childhood of 200–201
first hint of poetic talent 202
Groucho Marx and 409, 416
marriage 205–206
on the failure of Hamlet 199–200
rejecting Animal Farm 170
Ellis, Havelock 60, 100
Ellison, Ralph 118, 120
Rampersad biography and 372–373
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 63
Eminent Victorians (Strachey) 375
Encounter 249
Encyclopaedia Britannica 131, 146, 331–337, 527
Engels, Friedrich 254
Enjoy! Enjoy! (Golden) 434
Ephron, Nora 51–52
Epictetus 477–479
Epicureanism 395
Epicurus 35, 477
four-step method for achieving serenity 395–396
Errett, Benjamin 50–54
definition of wit 48
Esquire 58, 123, 280, 357
“Essay on Criticism, An” (Pope) 47
Euclid 59, 168, 486, 503
Eugene Onegin 361
Evans, Bergen 85–86
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited (Eade) 284
Everything Explained That Is Explainable (Boyles) 332
Experience and Its Modes (Oakeshott) 251
F
Faery Queen, The (Spenser) 144
Fairlie, Henry 50
Falstaff (fictional character) 47, 71, 389
Farber, Leslie 42–43
Far Side of Paradise, The (Fitzgerald) 267
Fateful Alliance: France, Russia, and the Coming of the First World War, The (Kennan) 231
Fathers and Sons: Autobiography of a Family, The (Turgenev) 244, 286, 359
“Fatimas and Kisses” (O’Hara) 266
Faubus, Orval 97, 137
Faulkner, William 16, 216, 259, 297
Fault Lines (Pryce-Jones) 243
Fermi, Enrico 10, 145
Fey, Tina 52
Ficherelli, Felice 398
Fiddler on the Roof 388, 391–393, 434
Fielding, Henry 305
rivalry with Richardson 359–360
Fields, Jackie 425
Fields, W. C. 51, 80, 95, 407, 411, 530
“Figura” (Auerbach) 153
“Figure in the Carpet, The” (James) 369
Fillmore, Millard 502
“Fire Next Time, The” (Baldwin) 278
Fisher, Art 408
Fitzgerald, Barry 445
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 16, 102, 143, 196, 241, 259, 260, 267–272, 358
marriage 268–269
on depression 37, 84
Fitzgerald, Robert 191
Fitzlyon, Kyril 246
Flanner, Janet 274
Flaubert, Gustave 16, 159
Fleming, Anne 286
Fleming, Erin 410
Fonda, Jane 129
For 2¢ Plain (Golden) 434
Ford, Ford Madox 453
Ford, Henry 62
Ford, Tom 58
Foreign Affairs (Kennan) 225
Foreman, Yuri 429
Forster, E. M. 2, 108, 145, 193, 241
Fort Hood, Texas 137, 144, 533
Foster, William Z. 366
Fowler, H. W. 340, 481–483
on cowardice 71
“vogue words” of 34, 352
Franck, César 188
Frankfurter, Felix 237, 239, 241
Frankfurter, Marion 240, 245
Franklin, Benjamin 473
Franz Kafka, The Poet of Guilt and Shame (Friedlander) 162
Freedom Riders 434
Fremantle, Anne 294
French Revolution 62, 250, 301, 312
Freud, Sigmund 26, 59, 90, 143, 165, 166, 169, 237, 267, 370, 398
on humor 404–405, 417
Frick, Grace 497
Friedlander, Saule 162–165
Frishberg, Dave 117
From Berlin to Jerusalem (Scholem) 439
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (Barzun) 15
From the Fair (Aleichem) 383, 385
Frost, Robert 17, 194, 344
Fry, Roger 196, 205
Fry, Stephen 55
Fuhrman, Manfred 366
Furet, François 300
Fusari, Charley 421
G
Gabbana, Stefano 112–113
Galileo 59
Galton, Francis 64
Garden o
f the Finzi-Continis, The (Bassani) 38
Gardner, Evelyn 288
Gardner, Howard 65–66
Gates of Fire (Pressfield) 485
Gavilan, “Kid” 421
Genet, Jean 123
genius 55, 57–66, 158–159, 177, 185, 208, 213, 240, 247, 292, 297, 301, 305, 322, 334, 360, 384, 412, 440, 457, 458, 462, 463, 469, 471, 498–499, 502
definition of 58
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and 64–65
misuse of term 58
redefinition of in the eighteenth century 62–63
Schopenhauer on 66
scientific measurment of 63–64
secondary 59
strangeness of 60
talent and 59
Germania (Tacitus) 323
Gershwin, George 407, 528
Gershwin, Ira 47, 528
Ghandi, Mahatma 59, 73, 115
Gibbon, Edward 48, 230, 255, 299–312, 462, 473, 510, 523
anti-religious views of 306–308
as bachelor 301–302
critical reception to 310–312
on the loss of Roman literature 305
on the negative constantancy of human nature 303–305
on the virtues of Julian the Apostate 306
praise of Tacitus 322
shortfalls of scholarship 300–301
Gibbs, Wolcott 263, 273–281
Giddins, Gary 375
Gill, Brendan 265, 274–275
Ginsberg, Allen 121, 129, 404
Glee 113
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 14, 62, 63, 199, 254
last words of 45, 540
Gogol, Nikolai 384, 469–472, 493
Going My Way 445
Goldberg, Arthur J. 536
Golden, Harry 431–436
Golden Treasury (Palgrave) 202
Gold, Herman 425
Goncharov, Ivan 469
Gonzaga, Francesco 505
Goodman, Paul 129
Good Soldier, The (Ford) 453
Gorky, Maxim 384
Gottlieb, Robert 280
Gowers, Ernest 481, 483
Graetz, Heinrich 439
Graham, Alistair 288
Graham, Robert K. 64
Graham, Sheilah 270
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck) 24
Graves, Robert 194, 485
Great Books of the Western World (Hutchins) 278
Greatest Generation, The (Brokaw) 69
Greeley, Horace 502
Greenbaum, Samuel 379
Greene, Donald 521
Greene, Graham 145, 290, 294, 297
Green, Peter 315, 319, 368
Greenslet, Ferris 218
Gregory, Maundy 515
Gregory of Tours 157, 308
Grene, David 191, 527
Gross, Jack 77
Gross, John 536
Grossman, Vasily 493–495
Gross, Miriam 212
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence (Siegel) 410, 413
Guerrillas (Naipaul) 20
Gwynne, Neville Martin 340–344
Gwynne’s Grammar (Gwynne) 340, 342, 543