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Paine, Thomas, 200

Painter, Mary, 324, 325

painters: bar of, 130, 180; and jazz, 307–8

pajama parties, 57, 226

panty raids, 206–7

Paris Review, The , 234, 277

Parker, Charlie, 300, 302, 304, 310

Parker, Dorothy, 239, 265

Parmentel, Noel E., Jr., 69, 264, 268–70, 274

Parnassus Girls’ Club, 57

Partisan Review , 40, 122, 151, 204, 232–34, 281, 285

Patchin Place, 117–19

Patterson, Floyd, 295

Patton, Christine, 198–200, 202; America’s Runaways , 199

Peace Corps, 265

Peacock coffehouse, 191–92

Peale, Norman Vincent, 93, 94

Pentecostalism, 101–2

Peterson, Dorothy, 49

Phelps, Robert, 126, 148–53, 158, 320, 336; as editor, 150

Phillips, William, 122, 233, 281

Picasso, Pablo: Guernica , 43

Playboy , 106, 286, 289

“Playhouse Ninety” (TV), 275

playwrights, 276. See also theater

Plimpton, George, 277

Podhoretz, Norman, 22, 54, 133, 148, 165, 173, 184, 288–89, 296–97, 324, 328, 339; “The Article as Art,” 288–89; Breaking Ranks , 324; on Ginsberg and beats, 41–42, 178, 179, 184–86, 187, 188; “The Know-Nothing Bohemians,” 178, 184; Making It , 325

Point of No Return (play), 16

Poitier, Sidney, 157

Politics , 60

politics, 244–64; anticommunism, 6, 15, 19, 81, 247–64; campaign of 1960, 264–66; Catholic Worker movement, 5, 7–8, 73–90, 92, 131, 168, 196; civil defense protest, 82–84, 88–89; civil rights movement, 112, 113–14, 139, 326; Columbia University and Communist witch-hunts, 251–52, 254–55, 256–58; Communists, 19, 140, 141, 247–50, 258, 259, 263; conservatives, 261–63, 266–67, 270; liberalism, 245–47, 255–60, 261–63, 266–67, 270; radical, 19, 76, 82, 83, 109–10, 112–13, 130–32

Pollet, Elizabeth, 156

Polsky, Ned, 171, 221–22, 340

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 5, 291, 295

Powell, Bud, 135, 300

Pow Wow Group, 114

pregnancy, 226, 234–38

Prescott, Orville, 162, 163

presidential campaign of 1960, 264–66

Princeton Packet: DW works for, 50–51, 55–56, 60, 61, 62

psilocybin, 172–73, 174, 175

psychiatry, 28, 135–36; and abortion, 235–36

psychoanalysis, 6, 145, 152; DW undergoes, 152–53, 208–25, 271, 320–21, 322, 323, 341; pervasive influence of, 208–11, 215–25

Puerto Ricans, 91. See also Spanish Harlem

Pulitzer Prize awards, 25, 147, 150, 175, 337

Pull My Daisy (film), 7

Puzo, Mario, 68–69; Dark Arena , 68; The Godfather , 69

quiz show scandal, 275

racial relations, 54, 55, 111–12, 137, 139, 140, 169, 324–25, 334

radical politics, 19, 76, 82, 83, 109–10, 112–13, 130–32

Rahv, Philip, 234, 285

Randolph, A. Philip, 112

Rawlings, John, 119–21, 123

Reader’s Digest , 236

reading clubs, 277

Realist, The , 332

Redbook , 218, 289

Reed, John, 55, 61, 63, 71, 122, 123, 138, 341–42

Reporter, The , 54, 69, 286, 335

Rexroth, Kenneth, 167–68, 170–71

Richmond, Jane, 40, 41, 55, 238, 240, 281, 339, 341

Ricker, Bruce, 340

Ridge, Clayton, 15

Ridge, Mary, 15

Riesman, David, 83; The Lonely Crowd , 2, 83, 287

Rikers Island, 95, 97, 101

Rinehart, Stanley, 147

Rivers, Larry, 7, 130, 188

Riverside Hospital, 95, 97–99, 101

Robards, Jason, 5, 120

Rolling Stone , 297

Rollins, Sonny, 111, 303

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 58

Rorem, Ned, 150, 151

Rosenfeld, Isaac, 289

Rosenthal, M. L., 178, 187, 329

Rosset, Barney, 150

Roth, Philip: Goodbye, Columbus , 71, 234, 305, 326

Rothko, Mark, 307, 308

Rushing, Jimmy, 307

Russell, Helen, 80, 86

Russell, Pee Wee, 299

Rustin, Bayard, 79, 112, 326

Sahl, Mort, 313

Saint Joan (play), 16

Salinger, J. D., 124, 164, 234, 280–82, 300; The Catcher in the Rye , 6, 180, 278, 280, 281, 282; “Franny,” 220, 234–35; Franny and Zooey , 266, 281, 282

Salisbury, Harrison, 329; reviews DW, 106

Salter, James, 149

Sandburg, Carl, 9

San Francisco, 20

San Remo, 5, 44, 129, 130, 136, 162, 163, 196, 311, 340

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 245

Saturday Evening Post, The , 328

Saturday Review, The , 326

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 248

Scholastic , 199

school integration, 112

Schuchmann, Bob, 267

Schwartz, Delmore, 187

Schwartz, Lynne Sharon, 9, 22, 31, 339; Disturbances in the Field , 31; Leaving Brooklyn , 22

Scott, Hazel, 330

Seattle, 20

Seeger, Pete, 157

Senate Internal Security Committee, 251

Sexton, Anne, 156

sexual relations, 43, 147, 156–57, 195–243; advice columns, 199; and career competitiveness, 238–40; in college, 206–8; contraception, 225–27, 232–34; dating, 197–202, 231–32; diaphragm, 232–34, 238, 240–41; drinking and, 232; at end of fifties, 332–33; ethnicity and, 197–98; homosexuals, 228, 230 ( see also homosexuals); Kinsey report, 204–5; manuals, 242; marriage-by-thirty stigma, 230; masturbation, 202, 205; noncommittal affairs, 242–43; NY anonymity and, 230–31; orgasm, 222, 241–43; panty raids, 206–7; Personal Living course at Columbia, 202–3; pregnancy and abortion, 234–38; promiscuity, 215, 226–27, 230–31; and psychoanalysis, 205–25; subterfuge and hypocrisy about, 227–30

Shakespeare & Company bookstore, 337

Shapiro, Harvey, 118, 125, 145, 146, 156, 187, 228, 277, 337, 339

Sharon Statement, 266

Shaw, Irwin, 277, 284–85; “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses,” 197, 284; The Young Lions , 284

Shearing, George, 306

Sheed, Wilfred (“Bill”), 132

Sheehan, Neil, 331

Shelton, Robert, 158

Shepp, Archie, 312

Sherwin, Judy, 31

Shirley, Don, 306

shock treatment, 135–36

Shoemaker, Don, 308–9

Shoot the Piano Player (film), 276

Shrike, The (play), 16

Sigler, John, 26, 292

Silent Generation, 2–3, 6–7, 164

Silverberger, Dr. Julius, 225

Silvers, Phil, 16

Simone, Nina, 157

Simpson, Louis, 25

Sims, Zoot, 307

Sinatra, Frank, 196, 197, 298

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 283–84; Enemies: A Love Story , 284; The Magician of Lublin , 284

sixties: fifties vs., 2, 6, 8, 181, 227, 238, 270, 334

Snyder, Gary, 184

South Pacific , 278

Spanish civil war, 76, 131, 132

Spanish Harlem, 5, 7, 91–115, 138; drugs in, 93, 94–101, 102, 104, 107, 108, 113, 323; teenage gangs in, 102–4, 109

Spectator, see Columbia Daily Spectator

Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 76

Spencer, Dr. Robert Douglas, 237–38

Splendor in the Grass (film), 304

Sprague, Kitty, 281, 339

Stafford, Jean, 239

Stalinism, 6

Star Is Born, A (film), 335

Statue of Liberty, 97

Steed, Bob, 76

Steeg, Ted (“the Horse”), 22, 55, 70, 92, 105, 123–25, 218, 221, 337, 341

Stein, Gertrude, 49, 150, 163

Sterling, Claire, 54

Stevenson, Adlai, 1, 54, 263–64

Stewart, Alice, 152

Stewart, Robert, 152

Storefront School for Children, 8, 78, 87–88

Stout, Richard T. (“Fuzzy”), 255, 257, 258

Straight, No Chaser (film), 310

Streisand, Barbra, 335

Stuyvesant Casino, 299, 302

Styron, William, 164, 282–83, 289; Lie Down in Darkness , 180, 282, 283

subways, 21–22, 24

Sullivan, Tom, 78, 81–82