Liberation (160 page)

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Authors: Christopher Isherwood

Swami
see
Prabhavananda, Swami

Swamiji
see
Vivekananda, Swami Swananda, Swami 486

Sweet, Paula 295, 333, 371, 500, 501,
807–8

Swimming Pool, The
(film) 139

Swisher, Viola Hegyi 238

Switzerland, C.I. and Don Bachardy visit 326, 336–9

Swope, John 611

Sylmar earthquake (1971) 139–41, 142, 148, 150–51, 155

Sylvester, Ralph 239, 241, 385

Symbionese Liberation Army 435,
754

Szczesny, Berthold 640,
808

Szczesny, Juan 640

 

Tahiti, South Pacific 3, 126, 184

Tahoe, Lake (California/Nevada) 399

Taking Off
(film) 311

Takis, Vassilikas 18

Talcove, Rick,
Ping Pong
505

Tallmer, Jerry 296

Tangier, Morocco 365, 402, 406, 516–17, 589

Tarpey, Tom 300

Taubman, A. Alfred 550
n

Taupin, Bernie 255, 259

Taxi Driver
(film) 501

Taylor, Elizabeth 134, 144, 160, 187

Taylor, Paul 43

Taylor, Roderick and Brenda 513

Tchelitchew, Pavel 8

Tear in the Ocean, A
(film) 311

Tearle, Godfrey 11

Teel, Jim 669

Tenant, The
(Polanski film) 518

Tennant, Stephen 389,
808

That Certain Summer
(film) 311

That's the Way It Goes
(film) 47

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
(film) 73

Third Man, The
(film) 258

Thomas, Edward 380

Thomas, George 511

Thomas the Imposter
(film) 248, 311

Thomas, Ross,
The Fools in Town Are on Our Side
545–6

Thompson, Nicholas 13, 16, 41, 54,
808

Thomson, Virgil: appearance ix; C.I. socializes with in New York 169, 172, 305;
Lord Byron
(opera) 226, 230–31, 233; Don Bachardy's drawing of 270, 377; at New York performance of
A Meeting by the River
307; at Bachardy's Municipal Art Gallery show 376; recommends dentist 422; New York apartment 424, 508; C.I. socializes with in California 444, 505, 663; in Roosevelt Hospital, New York 510;
808–9

Thorp, Charles 97

Thulin, Ingrid 45

Thürau, Fräulein (Berlin landlady) 125
n

Tierney, Gene 594

Time
(magazine) 639

Timmerman, Eric 89

Timmons, Stuart 619

Titanic
, RMS 279, 302

To Be or Not To Be
(film) 270

To Have and Have Not
(film) 264

“Today” (television program) 218, 221

Tokyo Story
(film) 264

Tolstoy, Leo,
War and Peace
574

Tomkins, Ben 469–70

“Tomorrow Show, The” (television program) 552

Topanga Canyon, California 283, 400

tornadoes 149

Toronto 536, 538, 539

Toronto, University of 538

Toscan, Richard 234

Touch of Evil
(film) 256

Touch, The
(film) 194

Townend, Peter 50

Trabuco: C.I. visits with Michael Barrie 190–92; foundation and building of 237, 284; proposed sale of land 237, 540; Prabhavananda at 248; neighboring development 462; Thanksgiving lunch 462;
809

Tracy, Katherine 44

Tramont, Jean-Claude 462

Travels with My Aunt
(film) 305

Travers, Ben,
The Bed Before Yesterday
511

Travolta, John 628, 638

Trembly, Dennis 387

Trevor, Agatha 616
n

Trollope, Anthony:
The Eustace Diamonds
x, 14, 16, 310;
The Way We Live Now
249, 310

Trone, Buddy 417

Truffaut, François 493, 496

Trulin, Paul 531

Tuchman, Maurice 507

Turiyananda, Swami 261

Turner, Charles 293, 298,
809

Turner, Dan 687

Turney, Catherine 504

Turville-Petre, Francis 400,
809

Twentieth-Century Fox 265, 557

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
(film) 421

2001: A Space Odyssey
(film) 632

Tyler, Parker,
The Divine Comedy of Pavel Tchelitchew
8

Tyler, Dr. Richard 564

Tynan, Kathleen 587, 588, 597, 640, 641,
809

Tynan, Kenneth (Ken) xxxii, 345, 532, 587–8, 589, 597,
809
; death and memorial service 640–41

Tynan, Tracy 640,
809

Tyndall, Jim 541

 

UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles): student newspaper 128; Royce Hall 143; medical school 189, 539; library 295, 403, 404, 497; faculty center 370; student protests 395; medical center 468, 469; Schoenberg Hall 487; Gay Awareness Week 498; C.I. filmed at 505; C.I. wills body to 539, 617; Melnitz Hall 645

Ullmann, Liv 520, 591

Uncle Tom's Cabin
(Stowe), proposed television version 553

“underground” films 267

Underhill, Ben (pseud.) 89, 90, 381–2

Unger, Ray: Don Bachardy visits at Laguna Beach 96, 99, 101, 109, 279–80; analyzes Bachardy's dreams 101; C.I. visits with Bachardy 101, 102, 354, 506–7; prescribes vitamin supplements 142; Bachardy visits at San Bernardino 178; and Lance Loud 379; C.I.'s concern for during land slides 585;
810

United Nations, New York 173

Universal Studios: and “Frankenstein” television film xviii, 130, 132, 158, 160, 162, 177, 178, 179, 193, 206, 211, 222, 242, 247, 288, 291, 294, 312, 336, 380, 399, 406; and “The Mummy” proposed television film 221, 228, 256, 288, 381, 385; picketed 346

University of California at Berkeley
see
Berkeley, University of California at

University of California at Irvine
see
Irvine, University of California at

University of California at Los Angeles
see
UCLA

University of California at Riverside
see
Riverside, University of California at

University of California at Santa Barbara
see
Santa Barbara, University of California at

University of Southern California
see
USC

Upanishads 50, 217, 218, 373, 418, 535, 561

Upton, Anne 516

Upton, Byron 516

Upward, Christopher 571

Upward, Edward: fantasy world with C.I. xviii, 310, 685,
776
; communism xxxiii; influence of Forster on xxxvi; portrayal in
Lions and Shadows
xxxvi; visits C.I. in London 18–19; appearance and character 19, 457, 458; relations with C.I. 21, 685; mistrusted by C.I.'s mother 54; at Cambridge 75; on death of Auden 394; sends tapes of readings to C.I. 456, 457, 458, 685; C.I. visits on Isle of Wight 515; on Jonathan Fryer's
Isherwood
551; agnosticism 554, 572; teaching at Alleyn's School 566; attacks of vertigo 571; and son's multiple sclerosis 571, 572; on Auden's King's Gold Medal 688;
810

The Spiral Ascent
xxxiii, 19, 456, 457, 571

Upward, Hilda 19, 515

Upward, John Mervyn 566

Urban Cowboy
(film) 628, 638

Urbashi (
earlier
Anna Monday) 490, 499

Urquhart Castle, Scotland 412

Urquhart-Laird, Tommy 510, 516,
810

USC (University of Southern California): theatrical productions 230, 582; C.I. talks at 402, 434–5, 505; Gay Week 505; writing award 570; Jim White teaches at 666

Usha
see
Anandaprana, Pravrajika

USSR 4, 449, 625, 630
n

Ustinov, Pavla 534

Ustinov, Peter 143

 

Vacant Room, The
(C.I. with Gavin Lambert; screenplay) 260

Vaccaro, Brenda 583, 584,
811

Valen, Mark 550, 552, 664,
811
van der Post, Laurens,
Jung and the Story of Our Time
578–9

van Druten, John 42, 612,
811
;
I Am a Camera
(play) 40, 230;
The Widening Circle
613

Van Horn, Mike: friendship with Don Bachardy 91, 96–7, 179, 182, 233, 434, 437, 440; art works 96, 437; visits Laguna Beach and Santa Barbara with Bachardy 96–7, 99; at Billy Al Bengston's studio show 243; moves to New York 385, 440; relationship with Jim Crabe 385; and Tony Richardson 417; C.I. and Bachardy socialize with in New York 509, 650; relationship with Brian Campbell 509, 650; visits C.I. and Bachardy in California 620, 621; at Bachardy's Robert Miller Gallery show 650;
811–12

Van Keppel, Hendrik 128
n

van Petten, William (Bill) 1, 2, 142, 297,
812

Van Sant, Tom 189,
812

Van Vechten, Carl 259

Vandanananda, Swami 212, 526,
811

Vaughan, Keith 51, 52, 57, 513,
812

Vedanta Center, Hollywood (Vedanta Place; formerly Ivar Avenue), construction of new accommodation for nuns 237, 246, 431, 434, 454, 469

Vedanta Society of Southern California, Golden Anniversary 643

Vedanta for the Western World
(anthology; ed. C.I.) 260, 436

Vehka-Aho, Eija 19

Velliquette, Scott 497, 504

Venice, California 248–9, 370, 558, 576

Ventura, Clyde 187, 232,
812

Verdon, Gwen 518

Verne, Jules,
Journey to the Center of the Earth
554

Vidal, Alexis 30–31

Vidal, Gore: appearance and character 10, 147, 156, 404, 530; considers changing nationality 10, 85, 138; and Jack Kerouac 10–11; in London 10–11; and Truman Capote 10, 199, 341, 404; and Howard Austen 11, 102
n
, 136; recommends books 11; in California 85, 134, 136, 138, 156, 403–4, 462, 501, 530, 537; on Forster's death 85; political career 85, 147; plans for novel on Sri Krishna 134; trip to India 134, 136; and Anaïs Nin 136; appearance on “The Merv Griffin Show” 147; on death of novel 157; contributor to
Antaeus
magazine 169; and National Institute of Arts and Letters 199, 404; Gerald Clarke article on 295–6; in Rome 340–41; villa in Ravello 341; and Gavin Lambert 404; on Nixon 404; on punishment for homosexuals 531; review of C.I.'s
Christopher and His Kind
670;
812–13

Burr
341, 404;
The City and the Pillar
11;
Myra Breckinridge
263;
Two Sisters
10, 136

Vidor, King 281,
813

Vidyatmananda, Swami (Vidya)
see
Prema Chaitanya

Viereck, G.S. 403

Viertel, Berthold 481, 614, 615

Viertel, Peter 302, 326, 336–9, 387, 444, 481, 557, 594,
813
;
White Hunter, Black Heart
415, 422, 430–31, 444

Viertel, Salka: in Switzerland 302, 326, 337, 338, 339; in California 405, 409, 410, 414, 415, 416, 481, 614, 615; death 594;
814

Vietnam War: antiwar movement 8, 82,
779
; Gore Vidal's views on 10; C.I.'s anxieties about 81; Nixon and 82, 161, 261, 268; films on 83; Tom Hayden's lectures on 261–2, 266, 270, 275, 277; peace talks 268; in Osborne's
A Sense of Detachment
321; Auden's reported remarks on 394; Ivan Moffat joke about 478; deserters 527

Vijnanananda, Swami 417–18

Villa Mauresque, Cap Ferrat, France 36, 389, 390

Village Voice
(newspaper) 221

Vincent, Jan-Michael 494, 506

Visconti, Luchino:
The Damned
45;
The Leopard
574

Vishwananda, Swami 9,
814

“Visit to Anselm Oakes, A” (C.I.; story) 521

Vivekananda, Swami (Narendra/Naren; Swamiji): centenary celebrations xxvii, xxxii; puja 4, 147, 217–18, 419, 493, 535; letter to Hale sisters 82; and C.I.'s meditation 101, 106, 286–7; on Americans running Vedanta Societies 109; C.I. dreams about 212; in C.I.'s introduction to
Vedanta for the Western World
260, 436; Prabhavananda's visions of 260, 436; writings 269, 294, 429, 436, 445, 446, 450, 490
n
; views on death and dying 286–7, 446;
814

Vivekananda House, Pasadena, California 456

Vividishananda, Swami 269,
815
;
A Man of God
570, 573

Voeller, Bruce 650–51,
815

Voight, Jon: marriage to Marcheline Bertrand 215, 311, 360; possible role in
A Meeting by the River
226, 227, 433–4; possible role in “Frankenstein” television film 233, 242, 291; arranges lecture series on Indochina 261, 275; proposes film version of
The Idiot
291, 311; twenty-fifth anniversary production of
A Streetcar Named Desire
343, 346, 348, 349, 410; appearance and character 410, 425; in
Hamlet
499;
815

Voight, Marcheline
see
Bertrand, Marcheline

Vollmöller, Karl,
The Miracle
383

von Adlmann, Jan 431

von Praunheim, Rosa (Holger Mischwitzky) 65

von Stroheim, Erich 170

von Wiedenmen, Don 476, 477
n

 

Wachs, Joel 495

Wagner, Robert 412

Walcott, Derek,
In a Fine Castle
232

Walkabout
(film) 197

Walker, Robert, Jr. 128

Wallis, Alan 504, 514, 537

Wallwork, Leslie 487, 582, 587, 595–6, 607, 612,
815

Walsh, Doug (pseud.) 160, 161, 180, 204, 529

Wan, Barney 511, 658,
815–16

Wanderings
see
Christopher and His Kind
Ward, Simon 394, 566, 572, 600, 602,
816

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