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Congar, Yves, 579

Congress for Cultural Freedom, Milan (1955). 447

Connelly, Marc, 217

Connes, Alain, 746

Connolly, Cyril, 285

Connor, Eugene (‘Bull’), 523

Connor, John, 383

Conquest, Robert, 316;
The Great Terror,
482;
New Lines,
464

Conrad, Joseph, 99, 182, 234, 245, 714, 768;
Heart of Darkness,
48–51

Coolidge, Calvin, 208

Cooper, David, 502

Cooper, Lane, 726

Copenhagen: Institute of Theoretical Physics, 256–8

Corner, George Washington, 426

Cornford, Frances, 152

Cornwell, John, 701

Cottingham, E. T., 184–5

Courant, Richard, 352, 362

Cowell, Henry, 513

Crane, Diana:
Transformation of the Avant-Garde,
511

Crete: Arthur Evans in, 15–17

Crick, Francis, 375, 478–81, 614, 703;
The Astonishing Hypothesis,
700–1

Cro-Magnon, France, 370–1

Croce, Benedetto, 65

Crosland, Alan, 326

Crosland, Anthony, 447

Crossman, Richard, 447

Crystal, David:
English as a Global Language,
705

Cuba: missile crisis (1962), 445, 517, 566

Cullen, Countee, 216

‘Culture, Ideas, Values’ (CIV) university course (Stanford), 731

Cunard, Nancy, 416

Cunliffe, Marcus, 704, 717

Cunningham, Merce, 510, 512–15

d’Abernon, Edgar Vincent, Viscount, 229

Dachau, 311

Daily Mail
(London), 339

Dal Co, Francesco, 622

Dale, Henry, 473

Dalí, Salvador, 204, 307

Dalton, Hugh, 384

Dalton, John, 2, 20

Dameshek, William, 660

Darlington, C. D., 319, 321

Darrow, Clarence, 207

Dart, Raymond, 371

Darwin, Charles: attacked by Catholic Church, 67; Conrad and, 48; cynicism, 759; Dennett idealises, 3, 694; effect on American life, 453; effect on religious thinking, 53, 188; Freud follows, 13; Hofmannsthal and, 30; influence on Hitler, 242; influence on playwrights, 346; Marx admires, 474; Mendel and, 18; Nietzsche and, 40; Picasso and, 60–1; revolutionary idea, 13; and Scopes trial (Tennessee), 207; Skinner and, 496; universality, 756;
On the Origin of Species,
40, 65, 122, 246, 371–2

Darwin, Major Leonard, 113

Davenport, Charles B., 113

Davidson, Basil:
Old Africa Rediscovered,
462, 556–7, 713

Davie, Donald, 464

Davies, Arthur, 126–7

Davis, Marion, 348

Davis, Natalie Zemon, 736

Davis, Sammy, Jr, 523

Davis, Stuart, 86

Dawkins, Richard, 616–17, 692–3, 696;
The Blind Watchmaker,
693;
The Selfish Gene,
619–20, 651, 693

Day Lewis, Cecil, 332, 334

Debord, Guy:
Society of the Spectacle,
547–8

Debussy, Claude, 23, 56, 58–9, 130–1, 142

Dedalus, Stephen (fictional character), 194–5

de Forest, Lee, 477

Degas, Edgar: sale of paintings (1917), 175

Degenerate Art (and Music) exhibitions
see Entartete Kunst
(and
Musik)
de Kooning, Willem, 355, 511–12

Delaunay, Robert, 63, 129

de Man, Paul, 730, 735

Denby, David:
Great Books,
733–4

Denby, Edward, 354

Denmark
see
Copenhagen

Dennett, Daniel, 3, 616, 692, 696, 701, 703;
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea,
694

Derain, André, 60, 62, 144, 409

Derrida, Jacques, 627, 630–1, 633, 637, 708, 735

Desai, Anita, 715, 762;
The Village by the Sea,
709

Deutsch, Helene, 505

Deutsche Hochschule für Politik, 223, 226

de Valera, Eamon, 373

Devine, George, 463

Dewey, John, 41, 77–8, 281–2, 670, 672

Diaghilev, Serge, 130–1, 164, 199, 357

Diamond, Jared: Guns, Germs and Steel,
752–3, 755

Dichter, Ernest, 446

Dicke, Robert, 570

Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes, 174

Diederichs, Eugen, 240

Dietrich, Marlene, 221

Dillingham Commission (USA, 1910), 116

Diop, C. A.: The African Origin of Civilisation,
729

Dior, Christian, 414

Dirac, Paul, 258, 373, 508

Dix, Otto, 157, 163, 300, 302, 351

Dobb, Maurice:
Studies in the Development of Capitalism
, 561

Dobzhansky, Theodosius, 371, 372

Dodge, Mabel, 126–7, 142

Dollimore, Jonathan and Alan Sinfield:
Political Shakespeare, 716–17

Dongen, Kees van, 409

Doniol-Valcroze, Jacques, 636

Donleavy, J.P.:
The Ginger Man,
429

Doppler, Christian, 265

Dos Passos, John, 334, 347

Douglas, J. W. B.:
All Our Future,
534

Douglas-Hamilton, Ian, 611–12

Douglass, Andrew Ellicott, 252–3

Dove, Arthur, 63

Dreiser, Theodore, 285, 334, 453;
Financier,
209

Dresden, 52, 54

Dreyfus, Alfred, 24, 45, 327

d’Souza, Dinesh:
Illiberal Education,
730–32

Dublin, 194

Duboar, King of Benin, 49

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, 109–12, 121, 124, 215–16, 283, 654;
Souls of Black Folk, 110

Dubos, René, 583

Dubuffet, Jean, 414

Duchamp, Marcel, 128, 162, 512, 514;
Nude Descending a Staircase, 1
28

Dudley, John, 398

Dulbecco, Renato, 700

Duncan, Isadora, 24

Dunn, Linwood, 348

Dunoyer de Segonzac, André, 409

Du Pont Company, 343

Duras, Marguerite, 638

Durkheim, Emile, 65, 599

Dutschke, Rudi, 536

Dworkin, Andrea, 531–2

Dworkin, Ronald:
Taking Rights Seriously,
644–5, 650–1, 656

Dylan, Bob, 523, 584

Dyson, Sir Frank, 184–5

Eagleton, Terry, 716

Eastman, Max, 347

Eckart, Dietrich, 173

Eckhart, Meister, 296

École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 407, 627

Eddington, Sir Arthur, 183–5, 256, 264, 302

Edelman, Gerald, 701

Edison, Thomas, 87

Egypt: universities, 73;
see also
Valley of the Kings

Ehrenburg, Ilya, 334

Ehrenfels, Christian von, 31–2

Ehrlich, Paul, 105–7, 113

Ehrman, Claudia, 663

Eichmann, Adolf, 6, 504–5

Einstein, Albert: attends Pauling lecture, 268; Bohr follows, 142, 261; and Cézanne, 61–2, 63; denounced in Germany, 232; and development of nuclear fission, 396; Eddington and, 183–5; Mach influences, 37; ostracised in First World War, 145; and quantum theory, 23, 93, 261; relativity theories, 93–6, 132–4, 183–5, 274, 571, 744

Eisenstein, Serge, 327–8, 330

Eisler, Hanns, 313

Ekwensi, Cyprian, 713;
People of the City,
460

Eldredge, Niles, 692, 696, 750

Eli Lilly (pharmaceutical company), 616

Eliot, Charles Williams, 74, 726

Eliot, T. S.: Aldous Huxley meets, 297; on ancient myth, 193, 208; on Bergsonism, 67; in Bertrand Russell circle, 99; on culture and society, 450–3, 456, 462, 464, 466–7, 634, 706; love of classical world, 246; Nietzsche influences, 39; on ‘no going back’, 767; Nobel Prize, 450; rejects Auden poems, 333; rejects Orwell’s
Animal Farm,
387; and sex in modern world, 199; Sinclair Lewis and, 208–9; on
Ulysses,
195; and Virginia Woolf, 201;
Ash Wednesday,
751–2;
Notes towards a Definition of Culture,
450–1, 723;
The Waste Land,
186, 188–91, 195, 450, 458, 751–2

Eliot, Vivien (
née
Haigh-Wood), 188

Ellington, Duke, 216

Ellis, Henry Havelock, 279, 423, 597

Ellison, Ralph, 391, 460, 462;
Invisible Man,
458

Elman, Mischa, 356

Eltanin
(US ship), 553, 555

Eluard, Paul, 203, 334, 336;
Les nécessités de la vie et les conséquences des rêves,
164, 203

Emilio, John d’ and Estelle Freedman:
Sexuality in America,
424

Empson, William, 338, 464

Engelmann, Paul, 159

Engels, Friedrich, 42

English Stage Company, 463

Enola Gay
(airplane), 13

Enright, D.J., 464

Entartete Kunst
(Degenerate Art)

exhibition (1937), 305, 312–13, 350

Entartete Musik
(Degenerate Music)

exhibition (1937), 313

Erickson, Milton, 664

Erikson, Erik, 277, 506

Ernst, Max, 162, 203–4, 313, 350, 354;
Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale,
203

Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, 599

Essenes (sect), 574

Evans, (Sir) Arthur, 15–17, 119

Evans, Hiram W, 207–8

Evans, Sir John, 15

Evernden, Jack, 487

Explorer
(US space vehicle), 484

Fackel, Die
(periodical), 192

Fairbanks, John, 71, 179

Falk, O. T. and Partners, 270

Falla, Manuel de, 130

Fanon, Frantz, 411, 414, 460, 526–8, 762;
The Wretched of the Earth, 520–7

Farben, I. G. (chemical group), 343

Farber, Leslie, 427

Faubus, Orville, 459

Faulkner, William, 283–4;
Absalom! Absalom!,
284

Fauset, Jessie, 216

Febvre, Lucien, 557–9

Federn, Paul, 15

Feigl, Herbert, 306, 379

Feininger, Lyonel, 302, 313, 355

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