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Pollock, Jackson, 355, 510, 624

Pommer, Erich, 222

Pompidou Centre, Paris, 621–3, 681

Pompidou, Georges, 621

Popes
see
John XXIII; Pius X; Pius XII

Popova, Lydia, 164

Popper, Karl, 183, 235, 386–7, 441, 767–8;
The Logic of Scientific Discovery,
488;
The Open Society and Its Enemies,
379–81

Porter, Cole, 342–3

Porter, Edwin, 87

Porter, Fairfield, 512

Porter, Roy:
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind,
665–6

Post, George, 80

Postman, Neil, 770–1

Pötsch, Leopold, 158

Pound, Ezra, 188–90, 334

Prague, 238

Preminger, Otto, 599

Presley, Elvis, 457

Pribram, Karl, 27

Priestley, J. B., 338

Priestley, Joseph, 489

Princeton University, 75; Institute for

Advanced Studies, 303

Prinzhorn, Hans, 295

Prokofiev, Sergei, 130, 513

Proust, Marcel, 28, 137, 199;
A la recherche du temps perdu,
137–8, 186, 199–200, 417

Psycho
(film), 490–1

Puccini, Giacomo, 54;
La Bohème,
24

Putnam, Hilary, 676–7, 701

Quatre Cents Coups, Les
(film), 638

Queneau, Raymond, 412, 626

Quine, Willard van Orman, 644, 677, 732

Quinn, John, 126, 128, 190

Qumran, 574

Rabelais, François, 558

Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 356

Radice, Lisanne, 293

Radiocarbon
(journal), 563

Rahv, Philip, 439, 459

Rainer, Yvonne, 515

Ramsay, Frank, 160

Randall, John, 366

Rank, Otto, 15

Rao, Raja, 706, 709

Rapaport, David, 306

Ras Shamra, 251–2

Rathenau, Walther, 302

Ratzel, Friedrich, 42

Rauschenberg, Robert, 511–14

Ravel, Maurice, 130–1

Rawls, John, 673;
A Theory of Justice,
548–50, 620, 644, 650

Ray, Man, 86, 356

Ray, Satyajit, 712

Raynal, Maurice, 336

Read, Herbert, 334, 336

Reader’s Digest
(periodical), 211, 217

Reagan, Ronald, 648–9

Reconstructing Individualism
(essays), 730

Red Guards (China), 539–40

Reed, John, 86

Rees, Martin, 743

Rees, Rawlings, 151

Reich, Charles:
The Greening of America,
583–6

Reich, Wilhelm, 223, 274, 354

Reichenbach, Hans, 306

Reik, Theodor, 505

Reinhardt, Max, 54, 353

Reith, John
(later
Baron), 219

Renfrew, Colin:
Archaeology and Language,
691–2;
Before Civilisation,
562–4

Renoir, Jean, 357, 637

Resnais, Alain, 639

Reston, James, 704

Rewald, John, 127

Rexroth, Kenneth, 455

Rhodes, Richard, 134, 262, 395

Richard, Jules, 271

Richards, I. A., 338, 465

Richardson, R. G. D., 352

Richardson, Tony, 463, 663

Richet, Charles, 113, 157

Richter, Hans, 161

Riefenstahl, Leni, 328, 329

Riesman, David, 592, 731;
The Lonely Crowd,
432–6, 438–9, 442, 447, 449, 452, 454, 457, 470, 595, 599, 650

Rift Valley, East Africa, 555

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 186, 227–9, 233, 241, 244, 331;
Duino Elegies,
227

Rimbaud, Arthur, 128

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai

Andreyevich, 130, 164

Rivers, Larry, 512

Rivers, W. H., 155

Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 627, 639;
Les Gommes,
413

Robeson, Paul, 215

Roche, Hélène, 613

Rock, Dr John, 428–9

Rockefeller Foundation, 352

Rockefeller, John, 119

Rodchenko, Alexander, 165–8

Rogers, Carl, 664

Rogers, Guy, 729

Rogers, Richard, 621–2

Rohmer, Eric, 636

Rolland, Romain, 161

Rollo, Charles, 423

Romero, Carlos, 118–19

Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 49, 91

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 353

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 306–7, 326–7, 342, 383, 386, 396, 400, 646; death, 401

Roosevelt, Theodore, 79, 110–11

Rorty, Richard, 735, 770;
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth,
670–3;
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature,
669–71, 676, 679

Rose, Hajo, 350

Rose, Steven, 692, 696

Rosen, Dr John, 663

Rosenberg, Alfred, 172, 295, 301, 313, 409;
Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts,
295–8, 315

Rosenberg, Harold, 511, 721n

Rosenberg, Isaac, 145, 154–5

Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 482

Rosenfeld, Isaac, 511

Rosenquist, James, 511

Ross, Harold, 217–18

Rostow, W. W.:
The Stages of Economic Growth,
443–5

Roszak, Theodore:
The Making of a Counter Culture, 595–8, 601, 605 Roth, Philip: Portnoy’s Complaint, 529,
584, 600

Rothé, Jean Pierre, 554

Rothko, Mark, 510

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 245

Routledge, George, 376, 378

Rowntree, Seebohm, 384–5

Roy, Claude, 336

Royal Commission on Population (1944; Great Britain), 428

Royal Court Theatre, London, 463

Royal Society, London, 261, 472

Royer, Clemence August, 42

Rubens, Heinrich, 22–3

Rubinstein, Artur, 356–7

Runyon, Damon, 409

Rushdie, Salman, 706, 715;
Midnight’s Children,
710;
The Satanic Verses,
710–12

Ruskin, John, 39, 332

Russell, Alys
(née
Pearsall Smith), 101;
Religion and Science,
291

Russell, Bertrand: and 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle, 24; Aldous Huxley meets, 297; as ‘analytic’ philosopher, 32, 75; background and character, 99, 107; debates with John Dewey, 77; and World War I, 144–5; influence on Eliot, 189; and Keynes, 174–5; on logic of music, 58; and proliferation of mathematics, 352; Quine on, 677; status, 65, 98; Wittgenstein and, 99, 159–60;
Principia Mathematica
(with A. N. Whitehead), 101–2, 270–1;
Principles of Mathematics,
100, 158

Russia (and USSR): cinema in, 329–30; Communism in, 293–4, 754; development of atomic weapons in, 400–1, 507–8; in World War I, 145; Great Terror in, 320–1, 323–4; Gulag in, 315–16, 542–4; psychiatric abuse in, 540–1; science in, 473–6, 481–4; Socialist Realism in, 322–3; Soviet

Russia (and USSR)—
cont’d
control of arts and sciences in, 316–25; space rockets and travel, 482–5, 566–8; Stalinist repression, 412–13; universities, 73, 317; and world spread of communism, 517

Rutherford, Ernest
(later
Baron), 90–3, 98, 107, 112, 133–4, 142, 183, 256–7, 261–3, 392–4

Ryazanov, Nikolai, 234

Ryle, Gilbert, 236

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von, 33

Sachs, Hanns, 11, 505

Sacks, Oliver, 760;
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,
642

Sacy, Silvestre de, 714

Sagan, Françoise:
Bonjour Tristesse,
429

Said, Edward, 51, 714–15, 762;
Orientalism,
714

Saint Louis, Missouri: Wainwright Building, 81–2; World’s Fair (1903), 112

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 334

Saint-Saëns, Camille, 131

Sakharov, Andrei, 541

Salam, Abdus, 743

Salinger, J. D.: The Catcher in the Rye, 584

Salmon, André, 129

Samoa, 278–9, 665

Samuelson, Paul, 648–9, 704

Sandberg, Wilhelm, 622

Sanger, Fred, 615

Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, 748

Santayana, George, 110, 324

Sarajevo, 144

Sarnoff, David, 210

Saroyan, William, 409

Sarrau te, Nathalie, 416

Sarris, Greg, 721

Sartre, Jean-Paul: as ‘continental’ philosopher, 32; education and background, 286, 407–9; effect on religious thinkers, 575; existentialist philosophy, 233, 407–10, 421, 627, 638, 770; ‘famille’, 412, 421; Lévi-Strauss attacks, 630; and Marcuse’s negation, 503; Nietzsche influences, 39; political beliefs, 410–13, 416; Rorty synthesises, 669; and Simone de Beauvoir, 421

Sarzec, Ernest de, 249

Sassoon, Siegfried, 99, 145, 155

Satie, Erik, 23, 157, 203

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 626, 630

Sautuola, Don Marcelino de, 369

Saxl, Fritz, 223

Say, Jean-Baptiste, 341

Schaeffer, Claude, 251

Schaller, George, 611

Schaudinn, Fritz, 104–5

Scherchen, Hermann, 313

Scherman, Harry, 211

Schiele, Egon, 180

Schiller, Friedrich von, 234

Schlemmer, Oskar, 300–2, 351

Schlesinger, Arthur, 721

Schlick, Moritz, 160, 183, 235–6, 270, 379

Schliemann, Heinrich, 15–16, 54

Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl, 294, 351

Schnitzler, Arthur, 28–30, 32, 36, 44, 55, 59, 192, 227–8;
Lieutenant Gusti,
38;
The Road into the Open,
28

Schoenberg, Arnold: character and appearance, 55–6; in
Entartete Musik
exhibition, 313; influence of atomic physics and anthropology on, 3; Kandinsky hears, 64; musical innovations, 56–60, 129, 230; Strauss on, 55; Stravinsky and, 142; in USA, 355–7; in Vienna, 37, 192;
Das Buch der hängenden Gärten,
57;
Erwartung,
58–9, 61;
Pierrot lunaire,
58–9; Second

String Quartet, 57–9; Violin Concerto (Opus 36), 356;
Von Heute auf Morgen,
232

Schoenberg, Mathilde (
née
von Zemlinsky), 56–7

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