Modern Mind

William Butler, 23, 156, 194–7; omits Owen from
Oxford Book of Modern Verse,
156
Yerkes, Robert, 149–50, 206
Yezhov, N. I., 324
Yom Kippur War (1973), 589
Young, Andrew, 525
Young, Michael:
The Rise of the Meritocracy,
448–9, 698
Yung Wing, 70
Zabel, William, 446
Zadkine, Ossip, 355
Zehme, Albertine, 58–9
Zemlinsky, Alexander von, 56
Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete,
352
Zervos, Christian, 336
Zhdanov, Andrei, 320, 412, 474
Zhou Enlai, 540
Zhoukoud, Adolf, 311, 313
Ziegler, Adolf, 312
Zimbabwe, 556–7
Zimbalist, Efrem, 356
Znaniecki, Florian, 282
Zola, Emile, 24, 43, 209, 245, 327
Zuckmayer, Carl, 231
Zukor, Adolph, 87
Zurich, 161, 229
Zweig, George, 569
Zweig, Stefan, 28, 44, 228, 307, 353

INDEX OF IDEAS AND SUBJECTS
     
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abstract art, 63–5
abstract expressionism, 510–11, 515
acetylene-based fabrics, 343
acquisitive society, 186–7, 208, 210
Addison’s disease, 103
adenine, 480
adolescence, 278–9
adrenaline, 103
advertising: emphasises prodigality, 594; and pop art, 511; and status, 446
aeronautics
see
flight
aesthetic experience: and corporate business, 591
aesthetics: value (cultural), 722–3; Vienna and, 29
see also
canon (literary); culture affluence, 441–3, 520, 591
‘African Mind’, 527;
see also Négritude
Afro-Americans
see
US minorities, racial
agitprop, 165–6, 474
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), 658, 660, 662–3, 764
alcoholism, 103–4
alienation, 53, 225, 289, 292, 408, 599, 640, 704
alternative consciousness, 502
altruism, 619
amplification, 476–7, 617
anaerobes, 685
‘angry young men’, 463–5
animal behaviour (ethology), 309–10, 606–12
anthropic principle, 742
anthropology: applied to US society, 212–15; and cultural variations, 278–81, 461–2, 674–6; Frazer and, 30, 60; Freeman challenges, 665; and native
Americans, 116–20; and psychoanalysis, 141–2; and study of
adolescence, 278–9;
see also
Ruth Benedict; Franz Boas; Margaret Mead; Clifford Geertz
antibiotics, 367–8
antidepressants, 501, 597
anti-psychiatry, 502
anti-Semitism: decline of, 760; German, 42–3, 394; growth of, 71; Heidegger and, 309; Hitler and, 243–4; in Hungary, 181; Jung’s, 759; and literary canon, 726–7; in USA, 327, 352, 435; in Vienna, 12, 33, 45, 56, 243; Zola condemns, 327;
see also
holocaust; Jews; National Socialism; race theory
apartheid, 526
Apollo space program (USA), 566–8
archaeology: in Africa, 725–8; and cultural distribution, 555–65; in Egypt and Middle East, 246–52;
see also
dendrochronology; Potassium-Argon dating; radiocarbon dating; and individual sites and peoples in Index of Names, People and Places
architecture: and Bauhaus, 34, 223–4; ‘brown world’, 332; and Flatiron Building, 80–2; international style, CIAM, 331–2, 622;
Plan Voisin
, 332; and Pompidou Centre (Paris), 621–3; postmodern, 679; in Vienna, 26–7, 34–5; ‘white world’, 332;
see also
individual architects and buildings in Index of Names, People and Places
Arica, 598–9
Armory Show, New York (1912), 126–8
ARPANET, 736–7
arrhenoplasm, 33
artificial life, 746, 748
Aryans and Aryanism, 40, 42–3, 241, 296, 315
Ashcan school (painters), 85–6, 89
astrology, 602–3
astrophysics (and cosmology): and cosmic radiation, 569–73; and Eddington’s relativity experiments, 183–5, 264; and unstable universe, 264–6;
see also,
‘Big Bang’; nuclear synthesis
atomic bomb: development of, 392–3, 395–401; dropped on Japan, 401–2, 728–9; in USSR, 507;
see also
hydrogen bomb; nuclear energy
atomic structure
see
particle physics
atonality, 56–7, 230, 512
autism, 506
automatic writing, 164
automation, 365
avant-garde (art), 107, 126–9, 161–7, 203–4, 510–12; defined, 53;
see also
modernism
awareness movement, 600–1
baby boom, 537
background radiation
see
relict radiation
bakelite
(earlier
Bakalite), 97–8
ballet, 130–2, 357–9, 510, 512–15
Bantu (people), 557
Beat culture, 454–6, 595, 760
behaviorism, 495–8, 500, 551
Bell Curve, 698–9
beta decay, 393
beta-blockers, 659
‘Big Bang’ theory, 508, 569–71, 740–1, 751, 755
‘Big brother’, 473
bioenergetics, 598
birth control
see
contraception
black body problem, 22–3
black holes, 572–3, 739–41, 755
blacks
see
US minorities, racial
Blaue Reiter, Der (movement), 55
‘blight of