Liberation (157 page)

Newman, Bob 492, 493, 512, 527, 534–5,
777

Newman, Lennie 245

Newman, Paul 156,
777–8

Newport Beach, California 396, 674

Newsweek
(magazine) 245, 453, 639, 642

Niagara Falls 536, 538

Nice, France 27, 30–31, 33, 35

Nichiren Shoshu 524

Nichols, Mike 193,
778

Nicholson, Jack 207, 508

Nicole
(film) 369, 376–7

Nicolson, Harold 397

Nicolson, Nigel,
Portrait of a Marriage
397

Niedsialkowski, Stefan 71, 76

Nielson, Bodie 337

Niem, Jan (Tony Richardson's chauffeur) 27, 33, 34,
778

Night of the Iguana, The
(film) 138

Night Moves
(film) 502

Nijinsky, Vaslav 62, 67, 91, 328;
Diary
249

Nikhilananda, Swami 420,
778

Nilson, Bent and Elizabeth 15

Nîmes, France 33

Nin, Anaïs 136, 501, 536,
778–9

Nirmalananda (Tulsi Maharaj) 200

Nixon, Richard: Gore Vidal on 10; and Vietnam War 82, 161, 261, 268,
779
; 1972 presidential election (1972) 247, 261, 268, 277, 287, 288, 289, 290; possible impeachment 290, 355, 360, 416; Watergate 355, 358–9, 360, 367, 404, 425,
816–17
; and bombing of Cambodia 359; resignation 447; pardoned 452, 527

Nobel Prize for Literature 393, 443

Noguera, Gary 590

North, Melissa 76

Nourse Auditorium, San Francisco 666

nuclear war, threat of 32, 625–6, 642, 664

nudists 283

Nugent, Phyllis 493

Nunn, Trevor 291

Nureyev, Rudolf 18, 33, 35, 62
n

 

Oahu, Hawaii 95, 131

Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona 116

Oates, Warren 207

Oberon, Merle 181, 187, 271–2, 405, 454, 624,
779

O'Brien, Sean 324, 330, 459

Observer, The
(newspaper) 29, 42, 76

Obst, Bryan 688

Occidental College, Los Angeles 234

Occidental Petroleum 250

O'Connor, Frank 132

October
(C.I. and Don Bachardy): illustrations 618, 621, 664; writing and revision 618, 621, 623–4, 625, 626, 627, 629–30, 631–2, 633; readings from 634, 667; publication 644, 648, 649; sales 650

O'Dell, Chris 504

Oderberg, Phillip 100

Oh! Calcutta
(theatrical revue) 8, 11, 62

O'Hilderbrandt, Mary Miles Minter 270, 491, 502, 655,
779

oil companies 102, 250, 287, 416

oil shortages and price rises 405, 416, 418, 527, 541, 546
n
, 630,
724

Ojai, California 273

Okun, Drew (Al Parker) 511

Old, Vernon (pseud.) 283, 544, 609, 612, 614,
779–80

Old Vic Theatre, London 11, 306

Olitski, Jules 550

Oliver, Michael 413

Olivier, Julie Kate 631

Olivier, Laurence (Larry) 491, 592, 631,
780

Olivier, Richard 631

Olsen, Dr. (skin specialist) 612

Olympia, London 383

Olympic Games: Munich (1972) 280; Moscow (1980) 630
n

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy 534

One, Incorporated 115–16, 299–300,
780
;
One
(magazine) 47; National Gay Archives 634–5

Open Theater Company 406–7

Opliger, Curtis 374–5

Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California 406

Ordinary People
(film) 669

Oregon, criminal code 239

O'Reilly, Anna 33, 39, 57,
780

Orphanos, Stathis 239, 240, 299, 385, 491, 575,
780–81

Orton, Joe 572, 573;
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
45;
The Ruffian on the Stair
574

Osborne, John 508,
781
;
Look Back in Anger
69–70;
A Sense of Detachment
320, 321;
Watch It Come Down
515

Osborne, Kipp 508

Oscars
see
Academy Awards O'Shea, John 410, 487–8, 500, 506, 507, 545,
781

Ossorio, Robert 509

Outback
(film) 216

Owen, Wilfred 252

Owens, Rodney (Rod) 385,
781

Owens Valley, California 586

Oxford, England 413, 512

Oxford University 196, 322

Oxnard, California 343, 518

Ozawa, Roy 434

Ozu, Yasujiro:
The End of Summer
245;
Tokyo Story
264

 

Pabst, Georg Wilhelm:
Diary of a Lost Girl
536, 538;
Pandora's Box
498

Pacific Overtures
(musical) 508

Pacific Palisades, California 83, 116, 250
n
, 588

Padula, Edward 297–8

Page, Anthony (Tony) 52, 490
n
,
781–2

Page, John 504

Paget's Disease 437,
782

Pagett, Nicola 51, 318, 347, 380,
782

Pagliai, Bruno 181

Pakistan 155
n

Palavas, France 33

Palermo, Carol 127, 129

Paley, William (Bill) and Barbara (Babe) 173, 297,
782

Pallenberg, Rospo and Barbara 494

Palm Springs, California 399, 413, 430, 639; C.I. visits 348, 349, 410, 411–12

Palmdale, California 556

Palmer, Mark 198

Palmerton, Joy 221, 511

Palomar, California 95

Palos Verdes, California 605

Pandora's Box
(Pabst film) 498

Paper Chase, The
(film) 259, 281, 308, 313, 346, 355, 378, 385, 391, 405, 575

“Paper Chase, The” (television series) 575, 582, 603

Paramananda, Swami 224

Paramount Pictures 387, 427

Paris, C.I. visits 30–31

Parker, Dorothy 162, 368,
782–3

Parone, Ed 133–4, 226, 232, 236, 238, 252, 539,
783

Pasadena, California 164, 364, 583; Vivekananda House 456

Pasolini, Pier Paolo:
Arabian Nights
511;
The Canterbury Tales
511;
The Decameron
311

Patrick, Robert,
Kennedy's Children
504

Paul Bunyan
(operetta) 512

“Paul” (C.I.; section of
Down There on a Visit
) 243, 566; C.I. and Don Bachardy's draft screenplay 646, 651, 653, 658, 662, 665, 666, 668, 669, 670, 672, 673

Pavitrananda, Swami 88, 101, 172, 175, 179, 246, 250, 260, 373, 425, 444, 445,
783

Paxton, Larry 249

Payne, Maurice 515, 587,
783

Pears, Peter 487, 511–12,
783

Pebworth, Ted-Larry 490

Peege
(film) 385

Pelican Records 491, 496, 519, 521, 528

Pendergast, Sister Mary Carita 536

Penguin Books (publishers) 638–9

Penn, Arthur 502

Penn, William,
Some Fruits of Solitude
421, 641

Pentagon Papers 359
n
,
783

Performance
(film) 311

Perry, Troy D. 45, 154, 183, 240, 243, 247, 299, 569,
783–4

Perth, Scotland 512

Peru, earthquake (1974) 435,
754

Peter Rabbit
(film) 178–9

Peters, Gilbert (Gib) 94, 152, 437,
784

Petit, Valentine 534

Pfeiffer, Virginia (Jinny) 236, 280, 352,
784

Phantom of the Opera
(film) 441

Picasso, Pablo, retrospective (MoMA New York, 1980) 650

Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California 669

Pincus, Joseph (hotel doctor) 302

Pines, Burt 363

Pinewood Studios, England 316

Pinter, Harold 184;
The Homecoming
496

Pippin
(musical) 308–9

Plagens, Peter 593

Plante, David 24–5, 27, 515,
784
;
The Ghost of Henry James
25

Platypus Films 504, 505, 514, 537

Playboy
(magazine) 91, 144, 349

Playfair, Nigel 11
n

Plomer, William xxiii, 394,
785

Plowright, Joan 511, 631,
785

Plummer, Christopher 62

Pochath, Werner 496

Poe, Barbara 221, 499,
785

Poe, Edgar Allan 596; “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” 434

Point Dume, California 395

Point Mugu, California 442

Polanski, Roman 227;
Repulsion
217;
The Tenant
518

Pole, Rupert 536,
778–9

Polidori, John 160
n

Polish Mime Ballet Theatre 71, 75–6

Pollock, Jackson 80

Pollock, Toby 485–6

Pomerance, Bernard,
The Elephant Man
648

Pomona College, California 670

Pope-Hennessy, James 324, 330, 459,
785

population growth 642

Post Office Tower, London 23, 27

postal strike (in Britain) 145, 155

pot (cannabis/marijuana) 52, 175, 290, 324, 410, 620

Potter, Beatrix 137, 178

Pound, Ezra:
The A.B.C. of Reading
446;
Cantos
444

Powell, Jane 403

Power, Tyrone 432, 594

Powers, Tim 605

Prabhaprana, Pravrajika (Prabha;
earlier
Phoebe Nixon) 468, 540–41, 543, 547,
785–6

Prabhavananda, Swami: C.I.'s fears of embarrassing xxv, xxvii, 97, 162; leadership of Vedanta Society xxv–xxvi, xxx, 109–110, 124, 210–211, 218–19; concerns for the future of the Society xxv–xxvi, 109; C.I.'s devotion to xxvi–xxvii, xl, 101, 167, 224, 282, 407; views on sex xxxiv, 397–8; dreams 2, 200; ill-health 2, 85, 88, 125, 134, 147, 158, 191, 195, 198, 199, 200, 203, 205, 208–9, 210, 213–14, 363, 368, 397, 419, 427, 429, 448–9, 450, 452, 473; on body and mind 5, 93; and Peter Schneider 5, 93, 108, 237, 273, 274, 353; translation of Shankara's
Crest Jewel of Discrimination
with C.I. 47, 60; Bhaghavad Gita translation with C.I. 64; counsel to C.I. 82, 101, 103, 105–6, 107, 129–30, 284, 286–7, 413–14, 482–3; meditation 93, 258, 356, 369, 397; and Jim Gates 94, 161, 237, 353, 484, 594; and Brahmananda (Maharaj) 110, 127, 148, 166, 200, 203, 219–20, 222, 237, 250, 261, 280, 281, 282, 345, 346, 353, 355, 363, 365–6, 397, 413, 418, 436, 439, 440, 452; on education 110; C.I. dreams about 114, 419, 472, 480, 543, 671; C.I. takes the dust of his feet 114, 116, 175, 221; holiday in Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona 116, 124–5; C.I. contemplates memoir of 119; birthdays 128, 214, 413–14, 488; and Ramakrishna 129–30, 221–2, 348, 355, 436; in Mount Sinai Hospital 133, 134; on declining numbers of monks at Belur Math 137; reaction to earthquake 140; visions 147, 200, 260, 435–6, 473; never depressed 148; young disciples 152–3, 224–6, 660; blesses baby 158;
The Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta
164, 179, 623; unprovoked by Haridas 166; on C.I.'s humility 175; on use of pot 175; and Prema (Vidyatmananda) 179, 344–5; recollection of being groped by Hindu priest 182–3; and runaway monk 186; and Gerald Heard 189, 237, 246, 354, 374; at Trabuco 189, 190–91, 248; and Michael Barrie 190, 191, 192; convalesces at Santa Barbara 195, 198, 203, 205; on death and dying 200
n
, 286–7, 352, 353; and Krishna (George Fitts) 210, 226, 250, 287, 356, 397, 469, 482, 557, 679; gives C.I. accounts of his life 219–20, 221–2; “personality cult” of 223–5; and jealousy 227–8; making japam 233, 368; at Father's Day celebrations 236, 373–4, 440; on mantras for initiations 236; and construction work at Hollywood Center 237, 246, 431, 434; opposes sale of land at Trabuco 237; holidays in Malibu with Pavitrananda 246, 250–51, 255, 260, 262–3, 265–6, 269, 445; translation of Saradananda's
Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga
250;
The Eternal Companion: Brahmananda, His Life and Teachings
251, 413
n
, 532; weight 255, 261, 410; and Premananda and Turiyananda 261, 281; no desire to return to India 280; cataracts 281, 282, 356, 488; C.I. interviews about his childhood 287; dizzy spells 287, 305, 345, 346, 448; on ages of Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi, Vivekananda and Brahmananda 294; New Year greetings to C.I. 309; blesses C.I. and Don Bachardy before their trip to England 313; on Yogeshananda (Buddha Chaitanya) 327; and death of Mokshada 348–9; recalls double hernia operation 353; encourages C.I. to rejoin monastery 354; and Sarada (Ruth Folling) 354, 361, 365
n
; C.I. receives spiritual vibration from 355–6; and Joseph Kaplan 360–61; celebration of fifty years in United States 361; devotee dreams of being initiated by 365; lectures at Sarada Convent 368, 442; Seven Upanishads translation with C.I. 373; at Durga puja in Santa Barbara 396, 397; on God's love 413–14; rebukes Asaktananda 418–19, 463; holidays near Montecito convent 420; and Nikhilananda 420; at Ramakrishna puja 422; and Girish Ghosh 436; shocked by C.I.'s questions 440; dismisses nun 444; C.I. transcribes taped reminiscences 452, 456; and Sudhira 452; lecture on Holy Mother 454; and Abedha 456; at Kali puja preparations 461; on Belur Math's regulations 464, 482; decides against appointing Asaktananda as successor 467–8, 470, 480; requests Lokeswarananda as successor 467–8, 470, 473; recalls joke played by Larry Holt 469–70; refusal of lesbian woman's application to be a nun 479; and Belur Math's appointment of successor 486, 526; final illness 510; death 517, 525; special worship and memorial services for 518, 537, 547–8; C.I. remembers and prays to after death 522, 535, 537, 543, 555, 558, 560, 563, 622, 630, 641, 643, 664, 668, 675, 678, 679, 681, 682, 686; his bead added to C.I.'s rosary 537; anniversary of death 544;
786–7
; see also
My Guru and His Disciple