Index to Striking Through the Masks A Literary Memoir by Morton Marcus (Santa Cruz, Calif.: Capitola Books, 2008) Compiled by Stanley D. Stevens Santa Cruz, California 2008 Index to Striking Through the Masks: A Literary Memoir by Morton Marcus 2 (Santa Cruz, Calif.: Capitola Books, 2008) © 2008 Stanley D. Stevens © 2008 Stanley D. Stevens Index to Striking Through the Masks: A Literary Memoir by Morton Marcus 3 (Santa Cruz, Calif.: Capitola Books, 2008) -- Poem Permissions 585 A -- Poems: “Carabao” 366-367 -- women’s issues are one focus of her Aborigines: mentioned 496-509 poetry 366 -- Mort & Joe Stroud heard their silence Ancheta, Shirley & Jeff Tagami photo: at Navajo meeting 179 (San Francisco, 1985) 365 Acropolis, Athens: mention 329 Anderson, Cheryl: announced she Actors’ Workshop of San Francisco contracted to conduct “The Peace of -- George Hitchcock acted w/them 206 Wild Things” at Carnegie Hall, June -- observed by Donald Justice 189, 212 19, 2007 568 Aegina, Island of, Greece: mention 355 -- director, three chorale groups 567 Agamemnon palace, ruins of: tourist -- group photo (New York, 2007) 567 spot at Mycenae 333 -- photo w/Marcus & Lynn Trapp (New Agora, Athens: mention 329 York, 2007) 568 Air Force: corruption in military was Anderson, Cheryl & John: Mort, rampant 102 Donna, Imant, Cheryl & John became -- General: treated Mort like his son 94 good friends 568 -- Mort enlisted in Air Force 82, 84-90 Anderson, Jack: poet 522 -- racism in military 106 Anderson, John: director, Ensemble Alarcon, Francisco: mention 474 Monterey Chamber Orchestra 567 Alegria, Fernando: Changing centuries: -- group photo, New York, 2007 567 selected poems of Fernando Alegría ; Anderson, Len: Poetry Santa Cruz translated by Stephen Kessler. reading series reinvigorated by Dennis (Pittsburgh, Pa.: Latin American Morton and Len Anderson 560 Literary Review Press, 1984) 478 Anderson, Sherwood: mention 199 Aleixandre, Vicente: Destruction or love: Andreasen, Nancy: Mort succeeded her a selection from La destrucción o el as President of the Cabrillo Teachers’ amor of Vicente Aleixandre. Trans. by Union 519 Stephen Kessler. (Santa Cruz, CA., -- Penelope Martin’s roommate 515, 519 Green Horse Press, 1976) 478 -- was President of the Teachers’ Union Alexander, Robert: his anthology The AFT at Cabrillo 519 Party Train included a discussion of Andreasen, Nancy & Andy: hosts to Mort’s The Armies Encamped in the Richard & Penelope Martin & Fields Beyond the Unfinished Marcuses 515-517 Avenues. 547 Andric, Ivo: Yugoslav Nobel Prize writer, -- The Party train: a collection of North quoted 428 American prose poetry / edited by Anti-Semitism: Mort experienced it at Robert Alexander, Mark Vinz & C.W. Iowa 139-141 Truesdale. (Minneapolis, MN: New -- Mort was confronted with 61-62, 188 Rivers Press, 1996) 547 Aplon, Roger: mention 197 Alexie, Sherman: mention 522 -- Rusty Scupper bistro at Ghrardelli All Happy Families: or is it “happy Square, SF 191, 193 families are unhappy” 44, 371-380 Argos, Greece: mention 333-336 Ambler, Eric: mention 286, 367 Aristophanes: Mort’s favorite writers Ancheta, Shirley: dedicated “Carabao” cited in portion of interview by to Al Robles 366 Bloomsbury Review quoted: -- one of Joe Stroud’s students 364 Cervantes, Rabelais, Stern, Swift, -- one of Mort’s excellent students 364, Aristophanes, Zhuangzi, Rumi of the 558 Mathnawi, Nasrudin 536 -- photo credit (for p. 365) 583 Armens, Sven: mention 150 © 2008 Stanley D. Stevens Index to Striking Through the Masks: A Literary Memoir by Morton Marcus 4 (Santa Cruz, Calif.: Capitola Books, 2008) Armenians at Fresno, CA 460-463 Band, Charles Daniels’: mention 415 Armstrong, Jack: mention 37, 51 Barden, Geoffrey: mention 498 Armstrong, Louis: mention 65 Bartlett, Lee: interviewed 1988 William Artists’ Liberation Front: Chapter 19 Everson about the Bly incident 383 -- dissolved in 1967 219 -- Poem Permissions (William Everson): -- George Hitchcock was chairman of 585 the Neighborhoods Committee 212- Baseball: batted .400+ (freshman) 63 213 -- had regular games in Harrison 55 -- met last in January 1967 at San -- invited 20 kids to play in rear field 40 Francisco’s Polo Grounds, Golden -- Lick-Wilmerding 3-run homer 200 Gate Park 211 -- Mort played a passable game 37 -- Mort met Tillie Olsen there 242 -- sandlot baseball in park 57-59, 79 -- name proposed & debated 208-209 -- sports scholarship at Irving 68 Aschbacher, Jim: and wife, Liza Jensen, -- summer camp developed game 60, 67 accompanied the McDougals & -- suspension over, baseball again 71 Marcuses in France, 2001 416 -- Uncle Leo taught Mort the funda- -- and wife, Liza Jensen, accompanied mentals 26 the McDougals & Marcuses to Bern, Basin Street East (NY jazz club) 79 Switzerland, in 2005 for the opening Basketball: was Mort’s passion 57-60, of the Paul Klee Museum 417 62-63, 66-74, 78-81, 89, 91, 109-110, -- photo (at Santa Cruz, 1999) 416 137, 165, 186, 200, 233, 455 Athens, Greece: mention 255, 355, 575 Bass, Ellen: Mules of Love: Poems -- Chapter 33: Athens … (Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2002) - Atkinson, Charles “Chuck”: The only won the Lambda Award, 2005 560- cure I know (La Jolla, Calif.: San Diego 561 Poets Press, ©1991) won American Bay Area Television Consortium: Book Series Award, 1991 560-561 suspended, Mort & Stuart bought Australia & Tahiti: three-week tour of project 475-476 Australia’s East coast for a poetry Beagle, Peter S.: mention 277 reading 234, 489-497 -- Cabrillo College poetry series 228 -- travel cost was prohibitive - Mort -- group photo (Santa Cruz, 1972) 227 declared he would ask Cabrillo -- read at Memorial for Ken. Patchen at College President Swenson for fares City Lights Poetry Theater in SF 314 224, 489 Beal, Tandy : mention 360 Australian poets & Aboriginals: -- Jon Scoville is composer-husband of proposed to tour California & the Tandy Beal 465 Southwest 495-497 Beal, Tandy Dance Co.: Sara Wilbourne Ayia Galini, Crete: mention 347 asked Mort to write a dance idea, she was a dancer in a Tandy Beal Dance B Co. production 464-465 Bean Hollow Beach aka Frijoles Beach, Babczuk, Morris Jacob (Mort’s grand- San Mateo County, was a stopping father) (Babchock, Babjic) 8-9, 14 point for Mort and Vasko Popa 246 Baca, Jimmy Santiago: contact for tour Beatles: mention xv of AZ & New Mexico 502 -- debuted on the Ed Sullivan Show Balzac, Honoré de: mention 113-114, 178, 182 116 Bebchick: Mort’s family name Bebchick Balzac/zack Family: Mort’s family changed to Babchock, Babczuk, name Bebchick changed to Balzac 8- Babjic, Balzac, Balzack, Balzak 8-9, 9, 113 113 © 2008 Stanley D. Stevens Index to Striking Through the Masks: A Literary Memoir by Morton Marcus 5 (Santa Cruz, Calif.: Capitola Books, 2008) Bebchick Family (Morris Jacob -- made sure Mort attended theater and Babczuk & Anna Chana Isman) 8 opera 67 Bebchick, Carol “Cousin Carol”: -- married to a great-nephew of Theodor mention 20-24, 37, 42, 52, 58, 411 Herzl 529 -- Leo, Carol and their children were -- married to Laurence “Larry” Siegel, insulted by Rachel 529 her 4th marriage of 5 29 -- photo: with Mort (New York, 1937) 21 -- married to Pincus Max Marcus Bebchick, Ida “Aunt Ida”: mention 24 (Mort’s father), 1935, her 2nd Bebchick, Leo “Cousin Leo” -- mention marriage of 5 29-31 11, 20-28, 30, 36-37, 42, 52, 54, 62, -- Mort became his mother’s 64, 82, 484, 516-517 conservator 530-531 -- “fear not, and do right” 516-517, 520 -- Mort realized that she wanted a -- Leo accompanied Mort when he superior status 64, 68 enlisted in the Air Force 82 -- Mort recalled how insulting Rachel -- Leo, Carol and their children were had been to Wilma and Donna 529 insulted by Rachel 529 -- Mort said that “My Mother was a -- photo: Rachel, Leo & Bertha Beautiful Woman” 532 (Catskills, 1950) 22 -- moved to California in 1995, she was -- photo: thumbnail snapshot iii 88 528 -- photo: U.S. Army, World War II 20 -- Rachel “Rae”, Cousin Leo, & Aunt -- photo: with Mort (Brooklyn, 1946) 26 Bertha Bebchick/Balzak (Catskills) 22 Bebchick/Babchick, Abe “Uncle Abe”: -- retired to residence in Monterey: “I mention 4, 8-14, 19, 23-25, 38 want to die at a good address” 529 -- Daily News report on his murder 12 -- urged that Mort should travel to -- NY papers report on his murder 13 Europe to learn more about other -- photo: Brooklyn, 1932 9 cultures 324 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 3 -- warmed up to Donna - and Mort -- poem: “Uncle Abe” 10-11 observed that Donna is “the only Bebchick/Babjic, Rachel “Rae” (Mort’s person my mother ever trusted and mother) [born 12/24/1907 29-31; loved” 530 died 1/22/2002 at 94) 532]: -- -- went to Iowa for Mort’s graduation mention 8, 11-14, 21, 29-44, 46, 175, 155 375, 486 Bebchick/Balzac, Isaac Bob “Uncle Ike” -- appeared in General’s office and the 8, 14, 24 event branded Mort as a VIP in the Air Bebchick/Balzack, David “Uncle David, Force 93 Uncle Dave” 8, 24 -- arranged Mort’s employment at 15- Bebchick/Balzak, Bertha “Aunt Bertha” years old 74 8-9, 11-14, 20-26, 42, 328 -- called Mort “a real mensch” (one of -- photo: with Rachel & Leo 22 noble character) 531 Bebchick/Balzak, Frank “Uncle -- divorced Pincus Max Marcus (Mort’s Frankie”: mention 8-9, 14, 24-25 father), 1944 29 -- photo: Brooklyn, 1939 24 -- grief stricken at Mort’s suspension Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot from Irving Sch.) 70 characters Estragon & Vladimir 248 -- her last days 524 Beechwood School (Rye, NY) 31-33 -- insulted Wilma on their first meeting Beery, Wallace: George Hitchcock was 122 compared to 212 -- Leo, Carol and their children were “Be-In”: First