New York in the '50s (61 page)

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

Suzuki, D. T.,
139

Swados, Bette,
35–36
,
67

Swados, Harvey,
35–36
,
67–68
,
256
,
270
,
274
,
289
; “The Dancer,”
35
;
False Coin
,
67
;
On the Line
,
68
;
Out Went the Candle
,
35
,
67
;
A Radical's America
,
68

Swenson, May,
126
,
154–57
,
158
,
239
,
323
; “The Garden at St. John's,”
155
,
323
; “The Key to Everything,”
154–55
; “Snow in New York,”
155

Sylvester, Harry,
78

Taft, Robert,
249

Talese, Gay,
195
,
228–29
,
285
,
293–96
,
326
;
The Kingdom and the Power
,
296

Talese, Nan,
285
,
295

Tallmer, Jerry,
315

Tandy, Jessica,
16

Tate, Allen,
25
,
86

Taylor, Cecil,
111
,
304
,
309

Taylor, Paul,
120–21
;
Private Domain
,
121

Teamsters Union,
62

teenage gangs,
102–4
,
109

television: McCarthy hearings on,
247
,
257–58
; quiz show scandal,
275
; secondary status of,
196
,
247
,
275
; writing for,
40

Ten North Frederick
(film),
275

Termini, Iggy,
307
,
311

Termini, Joe,
307
,
309
,
311
,
318

“That Was the Week That Was” (TV show),
40

theater: Broadway productions,
6
,
16
,
157
,
276
; Circle in the Square,
5
,
120
,
157
,
303
,
313
; as literature,
276–77
; New York image in,
21
; off-Broadway,
276

thirties,
19
,
61

Thomas, Dylan,
6
,
127–29
,
130
,
159
,
168
,
170
,
201
,
321

Thompson, Francis,
122

Thurmond, Strom,
266

Till, Emmet,
63–65
,
81

Time
,
53
,
69
,
181
,
195
,
231
,
276
,
281
,
285
,
305
,
331–32

Time and Tide
,
262

Time Inc.,
167
,
170

Tobias, Tobi,
31

Todd, Ruthven,
128

Top Banana
(play),
16

Torme, Mel,
195

traditional form,
180–81

train travel,
11–17
; stations,
12–13

Travers, Mary,
81

Trillin, Calvin,
71
,
118
,
126
,
220
,
258
;
Floater
,
231
; on New York,
20–21
,
118
,
230–31
; on sexual mores,
228
,
229–31

Trilling, Diana,
40

Trilling, James,
31

Trilling, Lionel,
5
,
25
,
40
,
42
,
54
,
157
,
217
,
233
; DW studies with,
29–30
,
31–32
,
203–5
;
The Liberal Imagination
,
29
,
203
,
287
;
The Middle of the Journey
,
29
,
277
; “Of This Time, of That Place,”
41

Truffaut, François,
276

Truman, Harry,
248

twenties,
7
,
9
,
184
,
232
,
238
,
328
,
330
; Village in,
123

“20/20” (TV),
294

Two on the Aisle
(play),
16

Tworkov, Helen,
307–8
,
311
,
318
;
Zen in America
,
307

Tworkov, Jack,
307
,
308–9

Tynan, Kenneth,
300

Tyndall, William York,
128

United Nations,
251

Untermeyer, Louis:
Modern American and British Poetry
,
188

Updike, John,
337
; “On the Sidewalk,”
165
;
Rabbit, Run
,
326

U.S. News and World Report
,
206
,
207

Van Doren, Charles,
275

Van Doren, Mark,
5
,
19
,
41
,
44
,
88
,
203
; awarded Pulitzer Prize,
25
; DW studies with,
24–29
,
30
,
31
,
32
; “Education by Books,”
18–19
,
23
,
26
; “Invitation to Learning,”
25
;
The Noble Voice
,
25
; students of,
25
,
41

Varèse, Edgard,
219

Vidal, Gore,
149–50
;
The City and the Pillar
,
150

Vietnam War,
263
,
270
,
321
,
331–32

Village Gate,
129
,
157
,
158
,
307
,
313–14

Villager, The
,
123

Village Vanguard,
300
,
307
; Kerouac reads at,
164
,
167–70
,
171
,
172
,
175
,
179

Village Voice
,
9
,
20
,
108
,
118
,
123
,
130
,
132–33
,
134
,
142–48
,
190
,
263
,
288
,
289
,
303
,
315
,
319
,
338

Viva Zapata
(film),
246

Vogue
,
52
,
69
,
264
,
269

Voice of America,
247–50

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.,
277
,
323

Wagner, Robert F., Jr.,
4

Wakefield, Dan: ambitions for novel writing,
285–87
,
297
,
322
,
323
; anxiety over career,
325–27
; in car accident,
44
,
45
,
51
; and Catholic Worker movement,
72–73
,
77–90
; at Columbia,
1
,
4
,
5
,
13
,
19
,
24–47
,
202–8
; crisis of turning thirty,
319–20
; decision to leave NY,
320–21
,
334–35
,
336
; “Dos, Which Side Are You On?,”
327
; education in jazz appreciation,
306–18
; evaluation of his journalism,
326–28
; experience and contacts in NY,
5–9
; experience with fraternities,
17–18
,
256
; fellow students at Columbia,
36–47
; friendship with Jews,
45–47
;
Going All the Way
,
161
,
326
,
336
; “In Hazard,”
328–29
;
Island in the City
,
5
,
7–8
,
89
,
95
,
99
,
104–7
,
138
,
286
,
287
,
326
,
328
; in Israel,
47
;
on jazz and musicians,
298–318
; learning about sex,
195–243
; mentors at Columbia,
24–36
; “Miracle in the Bowery,”
84
; moves to Village,
104–7
,
116–59
; and narcotics committee,
94–95
,
96
,
99
,
101
,
107
,
108
,
109
,
110
,
323
; and politics of the fifties,
244–74
; with
Princeton Packet
,
50–51
,
55–56
,
60
,
61
,
62
;
Returning: A Spiritual Journey
,
341
; returns to NY in 1991,
337–41
;
Revolt in the South
,
326
; and Robin Hood controversy,
252–55
; seeking work,
45
,
48–52
; seeks and wins Nieman fellowship,
321
,
328
,
329
,
336
; senses end of era,
330–34
; in Spanish Harlem,
92–104
; travels by train to NY,
11–17
,
18
,
23
; undergoes psychoanalysis,
152–53
,
208–25
,
320–21
,
322
,
323
,
341
; works with Mills,
51
,
55–56
,
58–60
; and the world of writers,
275–97
; writes for
The Atlantic
,
39
,
175
,
336
; writes for
Commentary
,
329–30
; writes for
Esquire
,
5
,
39
,
290
,
291
,
295
,
321
,
327
,
328
; writes for
The Nation
,
5
,
29
,
39
,
47
,
63–67
,
71
,
72
,
84
,
85
,
100
,
112
,
138
,
155
,
161
,
164
,
170
,
172
,
173
,
197
,
263
,
314
,
322
,
326
,
328