Dan Wakefield - New York in the '50s

cummings, e. e., 6, 116, 118–19, 120

Cummings, Marion, 118

Curtiss, Minna, 66

Daily Worker , 263

dance, 120–21

Dave Brubeck Quartet, 305

Davis, Elmer, 255, 257

Davis, Miles, 5, 154, 243, 251, 300–301, 309; Sketches of Spain , 300, 301

Davison, Wild Bill, 299

Day, Dorothy, 7, 8, 75–76, 77–78, 79, 82, 83, 84–85, 87, 89, 90, 122; From Union Square to Rome , 79; The Long Loneliness , 76

day care centers, 92

Debs, Eugene V., 257

de Kooning, Willem, 111, 130, 219, 307, 309

Dell, Floyd, 122, 159

Dellinger, Dave, 79

Depression, 76, 257

De Sapio, Carmine, 141

Desmond, Paul, 305–6; Starting Over , 306

de Wilde, Brandon, 278

diaphragm, 232–34, 238, 240–41

Diaz, Ramon, 102

Didion, Joan, 20, 22–23, 52–53, 69–70, 232, 239, 261, 264, 266, 269, 282, 324, 331–32, 337, 339; “Goodbye to All That,” 335, 336–37, 339; on leaving NY, 334–35; Run River , 269; Slouching Towards Bethlehem , 23, 181, 297

di Giovanni, Norman Thomas, 65–66, 322, 336

Dillard, Annie, 337

Dissent , 68, 131, 143, 220–21, 222, 241

Dixieland, 298, 299, 302, 307

d’Lugoff, Art, 157, 158, 313, 314–15, 340

Doctor Joe, 101

Donne, John, 100

Dos Passos, John, 261, 266, 291, 327–28; Manhattan Transfer , 96, 327; Midcentury , 327; U.S.A ., 43, 74, 255, 287, 327

Dostoevsky, Feodor, 109, 110, 113, 115, 133; The Possessed , 109

Down Beat , 303, 305

dream analysis, 209–11, 217. See also psychoanalysis

dress code, 168, 170–71

Drexler, Rosalind, 129

drinking, 4, 55, 84, 101, 129, 152–53, 154, 168, 173, 174, 185, 187, 191, 194, 271, 283, 323–25, 328

drugs, 4, 42, 232, 332, 339; and beats, 172–73, 174, 175, 177, 182, 183, 185, 187; and cabaret card, 313–14; East Harlem Protestant Parish narcotics committee, 94–95, 96, 99, 101, 107, 108, 109, 113; marijuana, 42, 162, 172, 177, 182, 183, 232, 310, 332; psilocybin, 172–73, 174, 175; in Spanish Harlem, 93, 94–101, 102, 104, 107, 108, 110, 113, 323

Drugstore Cowboy (film), 186

Duel in the Sun (film), 119–20

Duffy, Martha, 149, 281

Dufty, Bill, 96

Dufty, Maely, 315–16

Duke, Patty, 58

Dumont, Marie, 200

Dunne, John Gregory, 53, 69–70, 231, 232, 331–32, 335, 337, 339

Dylan, Bob, 158–59, 318

Eakins Press, The, 156

East Harlem, 91–115. See also Spanish Harlem

East Harlem Protestant Parish, 93; and narcotics committee, 94–95, 96, 99, 101, 107, 108, 109, 113. See also Eddy, Reverend Norman C.

Eastland, James O., 247

Eastman, Max, 277

East Village, 177

Eberhart, Richard, 178

Eddie Condon’s, 299, 307

Eddy, Peg, 93, 99

Eddy, Reverend Norman C., 93–94, 95–96, 99, 100, 101–2, 104, 107, 108, 110–11, 113–14, 141, 316, 339, 341

Edge , 110, 114

Edwards, Nancy, 37

Eighth Street Bookstore, 187

Eimerl, Sarel, 71, 125, 337

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1, 2, 3, 127, 178, 248, 288; at Columbia, 38

Eliot, T. S.: “Little Gidding,” 216

Ellington, Duke, 24, 302

Elliot, George P., 31, 179–80

Ellsberg, Daniel, 54

Enchanters (teenage gang), 102–3, 109

Esquire , 21, 283, 289, 290–94, 295, 296, 297; DW writes for, 5, 39, 290, 291, 295, 321, 327, 328

Estabrook, Esty, 299

Evans, Tommy, 298

Evergreen Review , 315

existentialism, 245

Exodus , 289

Fadiman, Clifton, 25

Fancher, Ed, 108, 130, 144–45, 288, 338

Fantastic Lodge, The , 107

Farrell, James T., 327

fashion: as beat rebellion, 168, 170–71; changes at end of fifties, 333

Faulkner, William, 165, 277

FBI, 247, 249, 330

FCC censorship, 179

Federal Narcotics Facility, Lexington, Kentucky, 95, 96–97

Feiffer, Jules, 118

feminist movement, 147

Ferber, Edna, 248

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 25, 178

Ferrer, José, 16

ferries, 97–98, 196

fifties: end of the era, 330–37; NY lifestyle and communities in, 5–9; reputation vs. reality of, 2–9; vs. sixties, 2, 6, 8, 181, 227, 334

films, 275–76; foreign, 276; New York image in, 21; writers and, 275–76

Finn, Jim, 132, 340

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 6, 16, 19, 40, 122, 150, 266, 267, 275, 283, 292, 328; The Crack-Up , 330; The Great Gatsby , 16–17, 293; This Side of Paradise , 16

Fitzgerald, Zelda, 40

Five Spot, 5, 6, 7, 111, 303, 307–12, 318

Flores, Maria (pseudonym), 95, 99, 107, 108

Focus , 40

folk music, 313, 318

Fonda, Henry, 16

food, 42–43, 56, 59–60

Four Poster, The (play), 16

Foxx, Redd, 313

Frankel, Max, 3, 6, 36–38, 42, 51, 251

fraternities, 17–18, 20, 256

free-lance life: appeal of, 319–20

Freud, Sigmund, 29, 30, 209, 216, 218, 224–25, 241. See also psychoanalysis

Friedman, Bruce Jay, 21, 52, 58, 71, 199, 299, 304–5, 332–33; Stern , 332

From Here to Eternity (film), 275

Fromm, Erich, 144

Frommer, Arthur, 332–33

From Sea to Shining Sea (dance), 121

Frost, Robert, 19, 265

Fuerbringer, Otto, 332

García Lorca, Federico, 300

Gardner, Ava, 276

Garner, Erroll, 313

Garrigue, Jean, 125

Garrison, William Lloyd, 83

Geddes, Barbara Bel, 16

Geismar, Maxwell, 25

gender conflict, 238–40. See also sexual relations

Gervis, Stephanie, 269

Gigi (play), 16

Gillespie, Dizzy, 300, 303

Ginsberg, Allen, 7, 139, 148, 155, 158, 165, 172–73, 174, 176–89, 190, 191, 192, 194, 232, 339; “America,” 189; awards to, 181; at Columbia, 25, 27, 41; DW interviews in 1991, 176, 181–89; DW meets, 41–42, 176; Fotografier, 1947–87 , 186; “Howl,” 41, 155, 158, 177–80, 181, 187, 188, 189, 308, 311; and jazz, 311; “Kaddish,” 187; on Kerouac, 183–85; and psychiatry, 223–24, 225; “Sunflower Sutra,” 189; “A Supermarket in California,” 188–89; “To Aunt Rose,” 188; translations of, 182

Ginsberg, Louis, 188

Giroux, Robert, 25, 32

Glassman, Joyce, see Johnson, Joyce Glassman

Gold, Herbert, 25, 106, 152, 165, 178, 239

Gold, Ivan, 31–32, 125, 167, 300, 320, 337; “A Change of Air,” 27–28

Goldberg, Joe: Jazz Masters of the Fifties , 310

Goldwater, Barry, 263, 265–66; The Conscience of a Conservative , 266

Goodman, Walter, 218, 258–59, 286, 289, 339, 340

Gottlieb, Robert, 36, 54

Grand Central Station, 11–12

Grand Rapids Press , 48

Grand Ticino, 5

Green, Henry, 277

Green, Sally, 298

Greenfield, Meg, 3, 7, 13, 20, 53–54, 57–58, 117, 125, 217, 228, 231, 236, 239, 264, 265, 266, 282, 286, 329, 335, 337, 339–40

Greenwich Village, 4–5, 116–59; after the fifties, 158–59; apartment hunting in, 122–23; appearance and character, 116–17; bohemianism in, 117–18, 121, 122, 126, 140, 141; community identity in, 125–26; Italian community in, 141, 229; the Voice and, 142–48; from WWI to WWII, 122

Greer, Germaine, 296

Gregor, Arthur, 126

Grist, Ray, 109–10, 114–15, 311, 318, 339

Grove Press, 150, 326

Grubb, Jean, 49

guns, 102, 104

Guthrie, Woody, 158

Hagen, Uta, 16

Halberstam, David, 270, 331

Half Note, 307, 311

Hall, Jim, 111

Hamill, Pete, 146, 297

Hamilton, Bernie, 311

Hammett, Dashiell, 248

Hansberry, Lorraine, 157; A Raisin in the Sun , 157; The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window , 157; To Be Young, Gifted, and Black , 158