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Tables of Contents for The Sixties
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Foreword
xv
Edmund Wilson and The Sixties
xxl
Lewis M. Dabney
Chronology
xlix
THE SIXTIES
A New Decade Begins
3
26
Harvard 1960
3
6
Stravinsky in New York
9
9
Cambridge Parties
18
5
New Haven, Yaddo, and the Iroquois
23
6
New York and Upstate, 1961--1962
29
45
Retrospect from Talcottville
29
6
Mike Nichols and Elaine May
35
8
``A Man of the Twenties''
43
9
Studying Hungarian
52
6
The Social Round: New York, Wellfleet, New York
58
8
Barbara Deming on Trial; Isaac Bashevis Singer
66
8
Washington and the Kennedys
74
18
A White House Dinner
74
6
Andre Malraux
80
6
At Scottie Fitzgerald's
86
6
City, Country, and Cape: Summer 1962
92
28
Return to New York
92
4
Upstaters
96
8
``La Plage des Intellectuels''
104
4
Talcottville in August: Quarrelling with Elena
108
12
Canada
120
38
``On the Margin of It All''
120
8
Montreal and Elena
128
8
Quebec City after Half a Century
136
11
More on Writers
147
11
``A New Lease on Life'': The End of 1962
158
33
The Country and Cambridge; Isaiah Berlin
158
8
Aunt Addie's Bed, and a Talk with James Baldwin
166
6
Auden, Mike Nichols, and Flying in New York
172
4
Hungarians and French Novels
176
8
``The Flimsiness of Human Life'': Arthur Nock
184
7
A Man in Motion: 1963
191
64
Russian Writers and a Faulkner-Frost Story
191
6
A Political Argument in New York
197
9
A Lunch with the Murphys; Sandy at the State Hospital
206
10
Entertaining the Spenders--Short Men and Tall
216
6
Cambridge with Elena and Helen
222
7
European Intellectuals
229
4
Upstate after ``the Life of a Monk''
233
10
The Summer in Retrospect
243
7
Family Problems
250
5
Western Europe in 1963--1964
255
83
London: ``Lapsing Back into the Past''
255
11
Paris Without Glamour
266
6
The Assassination of Kennedy
272
3
Lorraine: World War I in Memory
275
11
Gossip of the Holiday Season
286
11
Parisian Winter
297
16
England: New Friends and Old
313
9
Rome: ``We All Had a Very Good Time''
322
16
Within the Soviet Empire: Hungary in 1964
338
50
Friendly Guides
338
7
Visual Arts: The Tradition
345
6
Ballet and Opera, the Circus, Classics in Translation
351
7
Politics and Official Spokesmen
358
11
Vienna, Budapest, Debrecen
369
13
Getting ``a Little the Hang of Things''
382
6
Home for the Summer
388
31
Literary Talk and Margaret's Family
388
9
Aging Friends: Conservative Notion
397
9
Canada: Jeanne Lapointe and Marie-Claire Blais
406
8
Two Dreams
414
5
In and Out of the Think Tank: 1964--1965
419
57
Middletown and Other Scenes
419
6
The Lowells, Moses Hadas, Stanley Dell
425
6
Carnegie Hall and Cafe Society
431
11
New Year's in the City
442
4
``Avant-garde Delinquents'' in a Dull Seasons
446
8
Boston, and Upstate in the Snow
454
7
Absurdities and Pleasures of the Center
461
8
Discovery of the Showy Lady Slipper
469
7
At Seventy: 1965--1966
476
67
People and Places: A Kaleidoscope
476
6
A Hungarian Visitor under Pressure
482
6
Dawn Powell's Death
488
6
A Cultural Establishment; Anais Nin
494
12
The Second Part of Faust
506
9
Ups and Downs and an Award
515
10
Another Award and Jeanne Lapointe's Visit
525
6
Upstate Again: Arguing about Vietnam
531
12
Routine and Occasions: 1966--1967
543
50
The Cape and Martha's Vineyard
543
7
New York Life; ``Extravagant Compliments''
550
10
An Anniversary and a Funeral
560
7
Lunches, Dinners, and a Poem
567
10
More Occasions; ``A Sinister Pressure in the Air''
577
7
Wagner, Balzac; Thoughts about Amour; An Ex-Jesuit on the Scrolls
584
9
Rome, Jordan, Israel
593
46
Darina Silone and the Bomarzo Monsters
593
7
Jordan: ``72 Today, Feeling Unusually Well''
600
12
Israel: Flusser, Yadin, Agnon, Kollek
612
9
The Light of Jerusalem
621
5
On the Eve of War
626
5
Paris
631
8
Aftermath of the Middle East: 1967--1968
639
58
Family and Scholars
639
7
Country Excursions; Rosalind at 43
646
8
``Pent-up Emotions'' with Mary
654
4
Summer's End on the Cape
658
7
New York State Interlude
665
4
Among the Literati: Anais Again
669
5
``Monotomy of My Life and Its Limitations''
674
6
Auden on Social Distinctions; Malachi Martin on the Church
680
6
A University Between Past and Present
686
7
A Scholar on the Scrolls
693
4
April--December: 1968
697
58
Visitors and a Trip to Chicago
697
10
Upstate Round
707
5
A Birthday Dinner and the Aspen Award
712
11
Summer Living
723
9
Ailments and Satisfactions
732
9
New York: Gossip and Old Friends
741
9
``A Definite Point Has Now Been Passed in My Life''
750
5
Early 1969
755
59
Stalin's Daughter
755
4
Penelope's Stories; A Boyhood Memory
759
6
February in Jamaica--Ackee Poisoning
765
6
Kingston and Tolstoy
771
7
More Tolstoy: ``What Is to Be Done?''
778
6
A Loss, and ``A Kind of Regeneration''
784
7
``A Thin, Subdued Spring''
791
6
Humiliation of Old Age
797
5
Highmarket: ``Huge Carcasses of Prostrate Bones''
802
8
New York: ``Something Solid and Real in My Mind''
810
4
Life Against Death: Fall 1969 To Winter 1970
814
55
With Mary and the Millers
814
10
Intellectual Conversations; Louise Bogan's Death
824
8
Defying the Doctors; Henderson House
832
6
The Desire to Transcend Human Limitations
838
4
Anne Miller: ``The Situation Has Comic Possibilities''
842
8
Mediums, Clairvoyants, and Healers
850
5
``You Can't Erase the Past''
855
4
``At Home in the Twenties''
859
4
A Surprising Conquest and Six Weeks of Misery
863
6
Final Notes: 1971--1972
869
16
``An Empty Arena''
869
8
Naples, Florida: ``A Sunlit Hell of Dullness''
877
4
June 11, 1972: The Stone House
881
4
Appendixes
885
18
Biographical Notes
903
34
Index
937