Mailer, Norman, 84n, 211–12, 242, 245, 249, 279, 279n
Makiya, Kanan, 286, 298–300, 305–6, 396–97
Malaya, 57–58
Mallowan, Max, 313–14
Malta, 9–11, 36–37
Mandela, Nelson, 100–101, 164, 301, 338
Mann, Erika, 153
Mann, Horace, 4
Manson, Charles, 241
Mao Tze-Tung, 118–19, 332
Marcos, Ferdinand, 305
Marcuse, Herbert, 89, 217
Margalit, Avishai, 383–84
Marsh Arabs of Iraq, 282–83, 318
martyrdom (martyrs), 31, 298, 344
Marx, Karl, 80, 86, 96, 113, 151–52, 195, 343, 364, 419, 422
Mason, Roy, 202
Massera, Emilio, 196
masturbation, 74–75
Mencken, H.L., 227
Mendelssohn, Moses, 376
Menuhin, Yehudi, 69
Meyer, Cord, 107
Michnik, Adam, 192–93, 419n
Mickiewicz, Adam, 369
Mignone, Emilio, 196
military draft, 106
Miller, Arthur, 271
Miller, Jonathan, 230
Milligan, Spike, 298
Miloðeviã, Slobodan, 412–13
Milton, Harry David, 328
Milton, John, 405n
Mitford, Diana, 141, 143n
Mitford, Jessica, 59n, 209
Mitford, Nancy, 59
Mlynar, Zdenek, 337
Modzelewski, Karel, 89–90
Moncrieff, Scott, 169
Mondlane, Eduardo, 100
Monsarrat, Nicholas, 36
Montefiore, Hugh, 73–74
Montefiore, Janet, 73–74
Monteith, Charles, 24
Moore, Michael, 249
Moorhouse, Roger, 361
Morocco, 180
Morris, William, 338
Morris, William Richard, 1st Viscount Nuffield, 94
Mortimer, Raymond, 169
Moscardo, Jose, 369n
Moscow Olympics (1980), 170
Mosley, Oswald, 141–44, 143n, 261
Mother Jones, 226, 228
Mount House School, 13–14, 35, 48–62, 63, 66, 404–5
Mugabe, Robert, 100–101
Mullin, Chris, 309, 310
Murphy, Eddie, 164
Muslim Brotherhood, 307–8
Myers, Kevin, 145n
Myers, Warren Powers Laird, 208
“myxomatosis,” 360–61
Nabokov, Vladimir, 160, 161n, 276, 367, 413
Nader, Ralph, 236
Nafisi, Azar, 313, 391
Naipaul, V.S., 15, 90
Nairn, Tom, 202–3
Nairne, Sandy, 2–3
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 358
Nation, The, 200, 218, 225, 228, 231, 234–38, 244, 249, 308, 396, 418
National Health Service (NHS), 138–39
National Museum of American Jewish History, 400–401
National Portrait Gallery (London), 1, 2–3
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 87–88, 181, 332, 419
Navasky, Annie, 234n, 401
Navasky, Victor, 200, 225, 234, 238, 401
Nazism, 36, 139, 332, 372, 408
Neier, Aryeh, 223
Nelson, Horatio, 34
New Left Review, 124, 135, 168, 412
New School for Social Research, 246, 331, 340, 383–84
New Statesman, 18, 67, 134–35, 144–45, 151, 154, 172, 175–76, 200, 202, 218, 224, 281, 288, 300–301, 418
Newton, Isaac, 65
New York City, 212–13, 218–19, 225–30, 241–42, 245–46
New York Review of Books, 245
New York Times, 168, 177, 221, 233, 247
Nicaragua, 264, 269
Niger, 319–20
9/11 terrorist attacks (2001), 241–50
Nineteenth Amendment, 253
Nixon, Richard, 106n, 124–25, 211, 219, 221–22
Nobel, Alfred, 4
Noel-Baker, Francis, 23
Nogueira, Franco, 187–88
North, Oliver, 231
Northern Ireland, 144–48, 202, 344–45
North Korea, 319–20, 349, 419
Notting Hill (London), 261–63
Obama, Barack, 193
Obeidi, Mahdi, 314
obituaries, 6–7
O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 186–87, 187n
Ochs, Phil, 99n, 187n
O’Connell, David, 406–7
Official Secrets Act, 222–23
O’Hanlon, Redmond, 128
Olson, Barbara, 242, 249
Orwell, George, 1, 44, 54, 61, 72–73, 96n, 160, 163, 171–72, 185n, 191, 206, 207, 247, 248, 279, 295, 308, 328–29, 359, 386, 405n
Owen, Wilfred, 71, 74
Oxford.
See also Balliol College
Cambridge vs., 64–65
Oxford Playhouse, 14, 17, 84
Oxford Union, 95–97, 101–2, 111, 124–26
Oxford University Labour Club, 96, 96n, 100–101, 132
Paine, Thomas, 120, 328, 405n
Pakistan, 249–50, 270, 300
Palach, Jan, 31
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 391–92, 393
Palestine National Council, 387–88, 395
Palestinians (Palestine), 180, 269, 284–85, 287, 290–91, 298, 358, 380–85, 390–96
Paley, William, 65
Palma Inácio, Hermínio da, 180
Pandora’s Box, 15
Parker, Dorothy, 420–21
Parker, Richard, 221
Partisan Review, 258
Pater, Walter, 104–5
Pavese, Cesare, 28, 31
Pentagon Papers, 222, 233
Perón, Juan, 198
Perry, Matthew, 127–28
Perse School, 73
Pettifer, James, 129
Philippines, 305
Phillips, Antonia, 165n
Phillips, Michelle, 210
Pinochet, Augusto, 154, 199
Plath, Otto, 27
Plath, Sylvia, 27, 27n, 353, 361, 362
Plymouth, 35, 36, 37
Podhoretz, Norman, 237–38, 269, 399
Poetry Society, 80
Poland, 89–90, 98, 122–23, 187–93, 361–73
Pollack, Kenneth, 302
Porter, Peter, 169
Portsmouth, 33–34, 36–37, 43
Portugal, 88, 100–101, 179–88
Portuguese Socialist Party, 184–85
Powell, Anthony, 47, 123, 135, 169, 335–36, 402–4
Powell, Enoch, 98–99
Prescott, William Hickling, 56
Prest, Michael, 68, 73, 78–79, 100, 129, 132
Price, Chris, 93
Private Eye, 150
“privilege,” 50–51
Profumo Affair, 79
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 393
Proust, Marcel, 338, 380
“Proust Questionnaire, The,” 333–35
“public intellectual,” 235n, 416–17
Pusey, Nathan, 214
Pynchon, Thomas, 176
Queimada (movie), 149
Quinn, Seamus, 258
RAAS (Racial Adjustment Action Society), 262
Raban, Jonathan, 312–13
Rabin, Yitzhak, 395
Raine, Craig, 158, 169
Ramparts, 216–17
Ramsbottom, Alderman, 79
Ransome, Arthur, 57
Raper, Peter, 77
Rattigan, Terence, 70
Raven, Simon, 76
Reader’s Digest, 418
Reagan, Ronald, 170, 193, 228, 230–34, 236–37, 269, 305, 419
Redgrave, Corin, 262
Regan, Donald, 305
religion, 330–33
Renault, Mary, 78n
Renwick, Robin, 274
repression, 78, 89
Resha, Robert, 100
“revenge is sour” rule, 68n
Rhodes House, 100–101
Rhodesia,
58, 88, 100–101, 177–78, 182
Richardson, Elliot, 224
Rickatson-Hatt, John, 347
Ricks, Christopher, 80
Rieff, David, 377–78, 401, 417
Robertson, Pat, 233, 249
Robinson, Mary, 273
Rolling Stone, 220
Rolph, C.H., 68–69
Rosen, Lawrence, 312
Rosen, Michael, 84, 126
Rosenberg, David, 89n
Rosenberg, Harold, 336
Rosenthal, A.M., 269
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 199
Roth, Philip, 380
Rothschild, Amschel, 6
Rowse, A.L., 105
Royal Navy, 32, 33–39, 41–44, 144, 201, 232, 374–75
Rugg, Percy, 79
Rumsfeld, Donald, 304, 322, 323
Rushdie, Salman, 9, 263–80
Clinton White House visit, 274–75, 276–77
Khomeini’s fatwah, 268–74, 278
9/11 and, 249
“Why I Have Embraced Islam,” 273, 279–80
word games of, 264–66
Russell, Bertrand, 70, 81, 134, 341
Rwanda, 367, 386n
Ryle, John, 263
Sabri al-Hadithi, Naji, 287–88, 316–17, 318
Sadat, Anwar, 386–87
Safire, William, 194
Said, Edward, 70, 131, 385–401
Covering Islam, 267, 390–91
Ian Watt visit, 47
Iraq war and, 291, 397–98
Kuwait and, 291
leukemia, 394–95
Orientalism, 390, 397
Palestinians and, 386–88, 391–94, 396–97
Saul Bellow incident, 398–400
Said, Mariam, 387, 388
Salazar, António, 88, 100–101, 103, 182
Salih, Barham, 295–96, 302, 309, 316n
Salinger, J.D., 208
Salt Lake City, 215
Samsam, Hoshyar, 294
Samuel, Raphael, 101
sanctions, 296, 297, 310, 319
San Francisco, 215–17
Sarajevo, 345, 412–13, 414, 419
Sartawi, Issam, 287
Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie), 261, 267–71, 278, 280
Saudi Arabia, 284, 290–92
Scammell, Michael, 414
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 220
Schneerson, Menachem, 376
Schneider, Mark, 259
Schneider, Susan, 259
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 172
Schwarzkopf, Norman, 292
Scilingo, Adolfo, 196
Scott, Hugh, 211
Scott, Paul, 263–64, 351
Seale, Delilah, 159
Second Amendment, 252
Sedgwick, Peter, 86–87, 89, 92, 358
Seferis, George, 26–27
segregation, 205
Selbourne, 360
self-slaughter.
See suicide
Serge, Victor, 91–92
Seventies, the, 143–44
sex, 89, 183
Shahak, Israel, 392–93, 394
Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 284, 295, 390
Shakespeare, William, 27–28, 56, 78n, 105, 127, 327
Shamyurira, Nathan, 100–101
Shand-Kydd, Adam, 6
Shaqlawa, 294
Sharon, Ariel, 233, 306, 394, 396
Shawcross, Hartley William, 269
Shneidman, Edwin, 6–7
Shute, Nevil, 57
Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham, 253
Singer, Daniel, 368
Sitwell, Edith, 151
Sixties, the, 80–92, 143
Smith, E.A.M., 67–68, 68n
Smith, Ian, 177
smoking, 150–51, 342
Snyder, Timothy, 371, 372
Soares, Mario, 184–85
Socialist Worker, 102, 120–21, 148–49, 223
Soho (London), 134–36
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 170, 402, 407–8
Sonnenberg, Ben, 273, 353, 362
Sontag, Susan, 284, 395, 416–19
Bosnian war and, 377–78
9/11 and, 244, 249
as “public intellectual,” 235, 235n, 416–17
Rushdie fatwa and, 268, 271, 274, 278
Soper, Donald, 67
South Africa, 100–101, 108–9, 182, 237
Soviet Union, 87, 91, 102, 118–20, 122–23, 184, 237, 332, 337, 407–8
Spain, 179–83
Spanish Civil War, 72, 124, 233, 328, 359
Sparrow, John, 103–5, 121–22
Spectator, The, 231
speech impediment, 66, 66n, 70
Spender, Stephen, 6, 24, 151
Spinoza, Benedict, 392
squirrels, 206–7
Staglione, John, 265
Stahl, Friedrich Julius, 366
Stalin, Joseph, 91, 139, 188, 189, 237, 306, 372–73, 380, 407, 414
Stanford University, 47–48
Stanstead House, 360
Stein, Edith, 363, 379
Stein, Gertrude, 373–74
Steinbeck, John, 351–52
Steiner, George, 129–30, 131, 385
Stephanopoulos, George, 274, 276–77, 395
Stewart, Michael, 124–26
Stone, I.F., 234–37
Stone, Oliver, 249
Strachey, Lytton, 74, 80, 303
Straus, Roger, 235
Strauss, Leo, 304, 353, 384
Straw, Jack, 126
Styron, William, 28–29, 29n
Sudan, 244
Suez Canal, 37, 58
suicide, 21–31
Supek, Rudi, 258
Susannah Munday, 15
Sweet, Teresa, 132
Sycamore Press, 128, 130
Syria, 319
Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), 347–49
Szmulevski, David, 368–71, 373
Talabani, Jalal, 294, 316n
Taliban, 250
Talmon, Jacob, 382
Tannenbaum, Chaim, 340n
Tawil, Raimonda, 380–81
Tawney, R.H., 68
Thanayan, Yahya, 285–86
Thatcher, Denis, 356
Thatcher, Margaret, 43, 170, 177–78, 201–3, 289–90, 295
Third International, 91
Third World fetishism, 86–91
Thirteenth Amendment, 252, 253
Thomas, Dylan, 96n
Thomas Essay Prize, 70–71
Thompson, Edward, 101
Thompson, Hunter, 221, 290
Thwaite, Anthony, 133–34
Timerman, Hector, 193
Timerman, Jacobo, 115, 193–94, 195–97, 200
Times Literary Supplement, 136–37, 156, 163, 239, 279
Titanic, 247, 248
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta, 313
Tolstoy, Leo, 56
Tonbridge School, 48–49, 63
Tone, Wolfe, 145
torture, 23, 54, 196–97, 202
Tory Party (Toryism), 18, 38, 79
totalitarianism, 91, 338
Totten, Michael, 347–48
travel, 179–200
Tribune, 67, 308–9
Trillin, Calvin, 234
Trilling, Diana, 279
Trilling, Lionel, 61, 387
Trinidad, 90
Trotsky, Leon, 87, 113, 190, 229, 303, 338n, 364, 376
Turkey, 306–7
Tute, Warren, 375
Twain, Mark, 4, 207
Twenty-second Amendment, 253
Twenty-sixth Amendment, 253
Uganda, 141–42
Uhl, Peter, 119–20
Ullman, Walter, 80
United Flight 93, 242
United Nations, Iraq inspections, 301–2, 310
United Nations Association, 73
University Challenge (TV program), 93–94
Updike, John, 161, 219, 249
Valéry, Paul, 275
van Gogh, Theo, 257
Vanity Fair, 247, 274, 275, 333, 346–47
V
idal, Gore, 33, 75, 139, 153, 237–38, 238n, 245, 249, 343
Videla, Jorge Rafael, 194–96
Vietnam War, 81–82, 85, 87–88, 90, 98–99, 106, 130
“Visit to a Small Planet” (Hitchens), 349
Vlachos, Helen, 22
Voltaire, 376
Vonnegut, Kurt, 330
Walesa, Lech, 305–6
Walker, Martin, 106
Wallace, George, 227
Walzer, Michael, 242–43
Warner, Marina, 284
warrantless wiretapping, 255
Warraq, Ibn, 390n
Warrior, 36–37
Washington, D.C., 234–38, 242–43
Washington Post, 222, 240, 268, 302
“WASP,” 226–27
Wasserman, Steve, 401
Watanabe, Teresa, 320, 321
waterboarding, 166, 347, 350
Watergate, 221–22
Watson, Sean, 71
Watt, Ian, 47–48
Waugh, Alexander, 54
Waugh, Auberon, 143n, 269
Waugh, Evelyn, 35, 47, 50, 56, 102, 140, 151, 198, 212, 219, 225–26, 227
weapons of mass destruction (WMD), 297, 301, 309–11, 314, 319–20
Weinberger, Caspar, 232, 305
Weizsacker, Ernst von, 332
Welensky, Roy, 177
Wellbutrin, 342
Wells, Alexandra, 132
Wells, Gully, 225, 228
Wells, H.G., 60, 134
Wells, Peter, 225, 228
Wernich, Christian von, 196
Wesley, John, 64
West, Rebecca, 311
West Side Story, 208
Wheatley, Dennis, 57
Wheen, Francis, 151
Whipp, Elizabeth, 132
White, Edmund, 417n, 418
White, Gilbert, 360
Whitman, Walt, 204
Whitman College, 240–41, 243, 245
Wieseltier, Leon, 391
Wilcockson, Colin, 71, 92
Wilde, Oscar, 7, 149, 157, 209, 236, 283–84, 420
Williams, Danny, 17
Williams, Raymond, 39–40
Wilson, Angus, 398–99
Winfield House (London), 224
Wodehouse, P.G., 56, 142, 150, 209, 361
Wolfe, Tom, 226, 227, 228
Wolff, Leon, 71
Wolfowitz, Paul, 304–7, 310, 312–15, 397
Woodward, Bob, 234n
word games, 130–31, 164–65, 167–68, 170–75, 264–66
Wordsworth, William, 399n
work permit, 218, 220, 225
World War I, 71–72, 97
World War II, 36, 45, 86–87, 205, 206, 332, 355, 357–58, 368–72, 374–75
Worsthorne, Peregrine, 177
Wortham, Hugh, 54–55, 58, 63, 404–5
Wurm, Mathilde, 377
Wylie, Andrew, 267, 276
Wyszynski, Stefan, 190–91
Yassin, Mehmet, 318
Yeats, William Butler, 321
Yom Kippur War, 154
Young, Gavin, 282–84
Your Feet’s Too Big (musical), 40
Zahawi, Wissam, 319–20
Zayim, Hosni, 332
Zimbabwe, 88, 100–101, 177–78
Zionism, 379–85, 389
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