Sin Whisper
, 371
Sioux City, Iowa, 421
Sir
, 68
Siskel, Gene, 466
“1601” (Twain), 393
Sixtus V, 62
Skinner, Harriet Noyes, 324
Slate, Jeremy, 515–17, 521
Smart Aleck
, 242
Smith, Eleazer (
Smith
v.
California
), 426
Smith, Joseph, 301, 311
Smith, Lillian, 101
Social Destiny of Man, The
, 303
Sodomy, 419, 436.
See also
Oral sex; specific acts
Songs, irreverent, 54
Southern, Terry, 121, 381
Soviet Union.
See
Russians
Spanish Civil War, 48
Spectorsky, A. C., 494
Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 77
Spelts, Cathryn, 372
Spelvin, Georgina, 534
Spiegel, Inc., 6
Spinoza, Baruch, 108
Spock, Benjamin, 228
Sputnik, 176
Stag
, 80
Stage Studio, 268
Steinborn, Henry, 67, 68–69
Steinmetz High School (Chicago), 32
Stereopticans, 58
Stewart, Potter, 397, 413, 418, 427, 428, 437, 445
Story of O
, 121
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 306
Strange Fruit
, 101
Stranger in a Strange Land
, 295
Strippers, 46
Stritch, Samuel Cardinal, 72
Stromboli, 75
Stuart, Lyle, 103
Studio, 45, 268
Studs Lonigan Trilogy, The
, 101
Sturman, Reuben, 377
Sublimation, 187
Suicide, 57
Summerfield, Arthur, 9, 109, 110
Sumner, John, 98
Sunshine & Health
, 1–2, 9, 45, 46, 68, 110, 275, 544, 545
Sunshine Park, 544–46
“Superimposition,” 116
Supreme Court, 36, 51, 61, 63, 64, 101, 106, 108–10, 114, 365, 371. 387, 389–401 403. 406, 410–14, 415–47, 471, 533
“Surrogate wives,” 193
Swarthmore College, 120
Sweden, 190
Sweeter Than Life
, 426
Swing, The (L.A. bar), 360
Swing clubs, 513
Symons, Arthur, 95
Synanon, 194
Syracuse, N.Y., 312
Talese, Gay, 521–46
Talese, Mrs. Gay, 528, 542–43
Tan
, 67
Tavern-on-the-Green, 503
Terminal Island, 446, 516
Texas, 400, 427
Theater, 56
Theodore, Sondra, 503
Thevis, Michael, 377
Thompson, Gordon, 405, 406
Thompson, James R., 486, 491
Thoreau, Henry, 304
Thurber, James, 82
Thurmond, Strom, 371
“Tie a Yellow Ribbon,” 467
Tillier, Claude, 100
Tilton, Elizabeth, 306
Time
, 84, 128–29, 471, 473
Titanic
, 151
Titian, 50
Titter
, 45
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 379
“Tonight” show.
See
Carson, Johnny
Topanga Canyon, 275–76, 281.
See also
Sandstone Retreat
Toronto, Canada, 245
Torquemada, Tomas de, 59
Totenberg, Nina, 427–28
Towner, James W., 319–20, 322, 324, 328
Toynbee, Arnold, 379
Trilling, Lionel, 431
Trocchi, Alexander, 121
Tropic of Cancer
, 119, 123
True
, 74
True Grit
, 515
Truk, 173, 174–75
Truth Seeker, The
, 59, 60, 61
Tucker, Sophie, 23
Turner, Lana, 278
Tuttle, Allan, 436–41, 442
Twain, Mark, 393
Twin Oaks community, 330, 331
Two Worlds Monthly
, 96
Two Years Before the Mast
, 21
Tynan, Kenneth, 426, 430
U-2 incident, 124–25, 178
Ulysses
, 10, 96, 97, 400
Under the Hill
, 123
United Auto Workers (UAW), 246–47
Updike, John, 414
“Up in Michigan,” 82
Utica, N.Y., 312
Vaginas, 506, 507–9; artificial, 230
Valenti, Jack, 420
Vargas, Alberto, 22, 31
Vassar College, 356
Vatican.
See
Popes
Venereal disease, 36, 55
Venice, Calif., 135, 359
“Venus and Tannhauser,” 106
Vibrators, 192, 230, 266, 510
Victoria, Queen, 56
Victorian Studio, 270
Vidal, Gore, 232
Vietnam War, 125, 188, 227, 228, 229
Viking Press, 232
Village Voice, The
, 259
V.I.P.
, 493
Viva
, 530
Vogue
, 275, 501
Volstead Act, 65
Von Braun, Wernher, 175, 176
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 414
Von Rosen, George, 45, 46–47, 49, 66, 68, 74, 384
Voyeurism, 376
Waggish Tales of the Czechs
, 102
Walker, Frank, 48
Wallace, DeWitt, 370
Wallace, George C., 270
Wallingford, Conn., 317
Walsenburg, Colo., 330
Ward, Pat, 104
Warm Springs, Ga., 422–24
Warren, Earl, 108, 365, 371, 389, 401
Washington, D.C., 98, 367, 371.
See also
Supreme Court; specific persons
Watch and Ward Society, 64
Watergate, 361, 365, 416
Watts, Alan, 224
Wayne, John, 515
WBAI, 247
Webber, Diane, 1–3, 8, 11, 14–16, 19–24, 25–27, 68, 71, 87, 126, 242, 275, 407, 421, 536–38
Webber, John, 538
Webber, Joseph, 275
Webster, Daniel, 300
Wedding Night, The
, 58
Well of Loneliness, The
, 99
West Roxbury, Mass., 303–4
Whisper
, 68
White, Byron, 407, 418, 428, 433, 440, 442, 445
White Fish, Mont., 517
White Thighs
, 121
Whitman, Walt, 57, 321
Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt, 258
Whittaker, Charles E., 109
Whittier, Calif., 245, 363–64
Whittier College, 364
Wichita, Kans., 533
Wickersham Gallery (NYC), 347, 509–10
Wife-swapping.
See
Mate-swapping
Williams, Chili, 46
Williamson, Barbara Cramer (Mrs. John Williamson), 147–49, 153–56, 157–63, 181, 195–201, 203ff., 212, 213–15, 225–26, 280, 282, 286, 287, 289, 333, 336–37, 343, 345–46, 349, 354, 514, 517, 520, 538, 541–42; family background, 141–43; jobs, 141–46; meets John Bullaro, 137–39; meets John Williamson, 183–85
Williamson, Claud (John’s father), 166–67, 171
Williamson, Constance, 166–67, 168
Williamson, John (husband of Barbara), 153ff., 158–63, 165–81, 183–86, 194–201, 203–5ff., 211–13, 215, 217–18, 219, 221–22, 224ff., 276, 277–8lff., 282, 283–84, 286ff., 295–96, 331–35ff., 343, 345, 349, 354, 420, 514, 517, 518, 519, 520, 538, 539–42
Williamson, Lilo Goetz, 173–81
Williamson, Marion.
See
McElligott, Marion Williamson
Williamson, Rolf (John’s son), 175, 177
Wilson, Edmund, 101
Winchell, Walter, 103
Wink
, 45, 68
With Open Mouth
, 121
Without a Stitch
, 365
Wolfe, Thomas, 515
Wolfgang, Marvin E., 373
Woman Who Was Pope, The
, 98
Wood, Clement, 98
Woodhull, Victoria, 322
Woodland Hills, Calif., 132ff., 339, 340–42.
See also
Bullaro, John
Woolsey, John M., 97, 99
Worden, Harriet, 327
World War I, 95, 122
World War II, 33, 50, 76–78, 101, 119, 120, 169, 190, 383
Wright, Francis, 301
Wylie, Philip, 224
Yale Divinity School, 306
Yaney, Ralph D., 519
Yap, 173–74
Yippies, 227
Young, Brigham, 301
Young, Loretta, 39
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), 56
Youth, 126, 130.
See also
Adolescents
Zitter, Martin, 522
Zola, Éntile, 96
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AY
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A WRITER’S LIFE
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THE GAY TALESE READER
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THE BRIDGE (REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION
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THE LITERATURE OF REALITY (WITH BARBARA LOUNSBERRY
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UNTO THE SONS
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THY NEIGHBOR’S WIFE
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HONOR THY FATHER
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FAME AND OBSCURITY
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THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER
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THE OVERREACHERS
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THE BRIDGE
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NEW YORK—A SERENDIPITER’S JOURNEY
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