Outside Looking In (22 page)

The odds were against me all along the way. Despite this, I won, and we celebrated our fiftieth wedding anniversary last year. I'm dazed each time I remember that she tried to take my jacket, sat down beside me, warned me against Bill, stamped on the sidewalk, went with me to England, shared my love of opera, corrected my books, bore me three beautiful children, and made my life endlessly rich with meaning. Inside our wedding rings are inscriptions from the marriage poems of Catullus. Hers says
Vesper adest
(“Nigh is the Night Star”). Mine reads
Palam quod cupis capis
(“Outward you win what inwardly you want”).

Abernathy, Ralph

Abzug, Bella

Adler, Renata

Agnew, Spiro T.

“Ain't Misbehavin',”

Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.

Albanese, Licia

Alcaeus

Alexander, Bill

Alexander the Great

Algren, Nelson

Allen, Ivan

Allen, Joan

Ambrose, Saint

Ameche, Alan “the Horse,”

American Film Institute

American Gigolo
(film)

Amram, David

Anacreon

Anderson, Judith

Arendt, Hannah

Aristophanes

Aristotle

Armstrong, Louis

As Good As It Gets
(film)

Augustine, Saint

Avedon, Richard

Baer, Neal

Bailey, John

Baltimore:

riots in

Tidewater diphthongs in

Baltimore Colts

Baltimore Film Festival

Barnet, Dick

Barry, Marion

Barrymore, John

Bauer, Gary

Beckett, Samuel

Belli, Melvin

Belloc, Hilaire

Berg, Alban

Berger, Raoul

Bergson, Henri

Berkeley, California

Bernstein, Felicia

Bernstein, Leonard

Berrigan, Daniel

Berrigan, Philip

Berry, Raymond

Berry, Sally

Bevel, Rev. James

Beveridge, Albert

Bing, Rudolf

Black Panthers

Blackstone Rangers

Blanchard, Doc

Blass, Bill

Blitzstein, Marc

Blumenthal, Sidney

Boudin, Leonard

Bowers, Claude

Boyle, Peter

Bozell, Brent

Branch, Taylor

Bremer, Arthur

Bringing Out the Dead
(film)

Brocks, Jack

Brookhiser, Rick

Brown, Jerry

Brown, Pamela

Brynner, Yul

Buchanan, Patrick

Buckley, Christopher

Buckley, Pat

Buckley, William F.

and Catholicism

and civil rights

final illness of

generosity of

and
National Review

as not an ideological snob

as not an intellectual snob

as not a social snob

as risk taker

and sailing

and Yale

Buckley family

Burnham, James

Burnham, Philip

Burton, Richard

Bush, Barbara

Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George W.

Caddell, Patrick

Cage, John

Cage, Nicolas

Cagney, James

Callas, Maria

Canada, draft evaders in

Capote, Truman

Carmichael, Hoagy

Carmichael, Stokely

Carousel strip joint

Carter, Amy

Carter, Jimmy

campaign of

human rights policies of

post-presidency of

presidential library of

Caruso, Enrico

Carville, James

“Catonsville Nine,”

Cat People
(film)

Catullus

Cavallo, John

Chaliapin, Fyodor

Chambers, Whittaker

and Ayn Rand

and pumpkin papers

and Quakerism

Chesterton, G. K.

Chicago School of Television

Chomsky, Noam

Church Committee

Citizen Kane
(film)

Civil Rights Act (1964)

Clancy, William

Clark, Septima

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary

Cobbett, William

Coffin, Eva

Coffin, William Sloan

Colby, William

Collins, Dorothy

Collins, Judy

Collins, Rose

Commager, Henry Steele,
The American Mind

communes

Community Concerts

Congress, U.S.

conspiracy theories

Conyers, John

Copland, Aaron:

“I Bought Me a Cat,”

Cousy, Bob

Croce, Arlene

Cronin, Father John

Cronkite, Walter

Cuomo, Mario

Curtin, Phyllis

Cusack, Dick, and family

D'Alesandro, Thomas, Jr.

D'Alesandro, Thomas, III, “Tommy Three,”

Daley, Richard

Darrow, Clarence

da Silva, Howard

Davis, Glenn

Deford, Frank

Demaris, Ovid

Democratic National Convention (1968); (1984)

Demosthenes

Despres, Leon

Detroit riot

Dickens, Charles

Dickenson, Jim

Didion, Joan

di Stefano, Giuseppe

Distributism

Dominican sisters

Donahue, Francis

Donaldson, Ivanhoe

Donaldson, Sam

Don Juan
(film)

Donovan, Artie

Doors, The
(film)

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Doubleday

Drinan, Robert

Duberman, Martin

Dukakis, Kitty

Dukakis, Michael

Duke, Patty

Duncan, Todd

Dupre, L. G.

Eat Your Makeup
(film)

Ebert, Roger

Economic Bill of Rights

Edwards, Willard

Eight Men Out
(film)

Ellingham, Lew

Ernst (crocodile)

Euripides

Evans, Maurice

Faisal, king of Saudi Arabia

Fallows, James

Farmer, James

Farrar, Geraldine

Farrell, Colin

Farrell, James T.

FBI:

and Berrigan brothers

and civil rights movement

COINTELPRO

and Communists

files of

and Hiss

and King

and radical black organizations

and SCLC

thought control by

Feiffer, Jules

Feinstein, Dianne

Felker, Clay

Ferrer, Jose

Fiennes, Joseph

First Amendment petition, as antiwar action

Fonda, Jane

Ford, Gerald R.

Ford, John

Forever Mine
(film)

Fort, Jeff

Forza del Destino, La
(opera)

Franco, Francisco

Frank, Barney

Franklin, Benjamin

Freedom of Information Act

Freedom Summer

Freud, Sigmund

Gagnon, Roland

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Galbraith, Val

Garrison, “Big Jim,”

Gelb, Peter

Genovese, Vito

Germond, Jack

Gershwin, George

Gielgud, Sir John

Gifford, Frank

Gifford, Marjorie

Gigli, Beniamino

Girardin, Ray

Glenville, Peter

Gobbi, Tito

Golden Arm, The (restaurant)

Goldwater, Barry M.

Gore, Al

Graham, Rev. Billy

Gray, Francine du Plessix

Greek studies:

author′s classes in

author′s doctorate in

Chambers and

Colby and

constant references in daily life to

Hess and

New Testament

Stone and

Greenough, Peter

Gregory, Dick

Guinzberg, Tom

Hairspray
(film)

Hampton, Fred

Handel, Georg Friedrich,
Giulio Cesare

Harburg, E. Y. “Yip,”

Hardcore
(film)

Harrelson, Woody

“Harrisburg Seven,”

Hart, Gary

Hart, Jeffrey

Hawkins, Alex

Hayes, Harold

Hellman, Lillian

Herburg, Will

Herod

Herodotus

Hess, Karl:

in antiwar protests

death of

and Ford

and Goldwater

Greek studies of

Hewett, Christopher

Hiss, Alger

and Nixon

and pumpkin papers

Hoffa, Jimmy

Holy Cross College

Holy Innocents, feast of

Homer

Hoover, Herbert

Hoover, J. Edgar

Hope, Bob

Hopkins, Anthony

Houghton Mifflin Company

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Houston Symphony Orchestra

Huff, Sam

Hummer, Ed

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Hunt, Howard

Hunter, Leonard “Duke,”

Hurt, Mary Beth

Hutchinson, James

Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA)

Institute for Policy Studies

International Communist Conspiracy

Iran, hostage crisis in

Isaacson, Walter

Isocrates

Jack Bull
(film)

Jackson, Glenda

Jackson, Jesse:

and civil rights movement

and King's death

presidential campaigns of

talks with youth

Jackson, Jesse, Jr.

Jackson, Mahalia

Jeffers, Robinson,
Medea

Jefferson, Thomas

Jesus of Nazareth

JFK
(film)

John Birch Society

John Paul II, Pope

Johns Hopkins University, author′s teaching at

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Johnson, Samuel

Jolie, Angelina

Jonah House

Jones, T. O.

Jones, Sam

Jordan, Hamilton

Joyce, James

Kasdan, Laurence

Kaufmann, Walter

Kaye, Danny

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Keillor, Garrison

Keith Vaudeville Circuit

Kempton, Murray

Kendall, Willmoore

Kennedy, John F.

Kennedy, Joseph

Kennedy, Robert F.

Kennedy family

Kenner, Hugh

Kent State University

Kersten, Charles

Kilgallen, Dorothy

King, Coretta Scott

King, Martin Luther, Jr.:

biographers of

and civil rights movement

death of

and FBI

funeral of

memorials to

and Poor People's Campaign

and sanitation workers' strike

and scandals

King and I, The
(Broadway musical)

Kirk, Russell

Kissinger, Henry A.

Kitchel, Denison

Knox, Bernard

Knoxville, Tennessee, unrest in

Kristol, William

Kupcinet, Irv

Ladd, Alan

Lady's Not for Burning, The
(Fry)

La Follette, Suzanne

Lane, Mark

LaRouche, Lyndon

Last Temptation of Christ, The
(film)

Laughton, Charles

Lazarus, raising of

Leonard, John

Lewis, Clarence

Lewis, Sydney

Liberty Lobby

Library of Congress

Liebman, Marvin

Lincoln Center, New York

Lindsay, John V.

Liotta, Ray

Lipscomb, Eugene “Big Daddy,”

Litman, Alan

Longus

Lorraine Motel, Memphis

Louis, Joe

Low, David

Luckett, Edith

Lyles, Lenny

McAlister, Elizabeth

McCaffrey, Neil

McCourt, James

Mace, inventor of

McGovern, George

Mackey, John

McLaglen, Andrew

McMeel, John

Madison, James

Making a Nation (MAN)

Malcolm X

Mandel, Marvin

Manilow, Susan

Manson, Charles

Marchetti, Gino

Marcus, Stanley

Marcus Aurelius,
Meditations

Marshall, John

Marty, Martin

Marx, Karl

Mary Magdalene

Matz, Madeline

Mayhew, Alice

Mean Streets
(film)

Menander

Mencken, H. L.

Metropolitan Opera, New York