scale, 12, 77, 78, 98, 104, 174, 176, 203

Schwartz, Gary, 214

Scott, Jonathan, 58–59

science, scientist, 145, 159, 242

sexual difference, 88, 96, 188, 255

Shakespeare, William, 84, 112, 139, 143, 164, 190, 207

soldiers, 37, 110, 209–214, 216, 218, 227, 228–229, 242, 243

Solzhenitsyn, 50–53, 56, 63

South America, 13

Spark, Muriel, 10

stasis, 93, 108, 114, 128, 132, 206, 215

Stannard, Martin, 10, 71

Steegmuller, Francis, 1, 10–11, 20, 40, 47, 157, 160, 163

Stewart, Susan, 77

sublimity, 91, 93, 112–114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 126, 138, 152, 186

substitution, 20, 22, 23, 26, 114, 116, 117, 120, 123, 131, 135, 141, 144, 177, 184, 190, 209, 237

Sydney, 3–4, 13, 54, 222, 224–225

synecdoche, 21, 47, 79–80, 100, 187, 217

Tanjungpriok, 232

Taylor, A.B., 139–140

Taylor, Charles, 203

Taylor, Nancy Dew, 160

temporality, 11–15, 16, 17, 53, 60, 66, 89, 93, 94, 104, 109, 113, 122, 123, 125, 127–131, 136–137, 141, 146–147, 153–154, 157, 161–164, 167, 172, 178, 200, 201, 204, 213–216, 218, 221, 226

topography, 18, 20, 90–93, 134, 161, 171, 176, 197, 200, 222, 223, 226, 233, 237, 244

tragedy, 44, 83–85, 134, 156, 162, 164, 166, 176, 189

translation, 8, 10, 13, 76, 79, 120, 126, 128, 134, 136, 137, 180, 229–231, 233

triangulation, 123, 135, 158

Trilling, Lionel, 45–48, 59, 71

truth, 8, 19, 20, 31, 45, 47, 51, 53, 58, 60–61, 63–65, 67, 74, 96, 101, 157, 160, 162, 172, 173, 177, 178, 180, 183, 185, 188, 190, 192, 205, 213, 215, 219, 241

United Nations, 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 18, 31–71, 73, 77, 79, 173, 242, 247

United Nations Decade for Women, 56

United Nations Secretariat, 32, 35, 51, 53–56, 65, 68

unknowing, 123, 147, 148, 157–159, 160, 162, 164, 165, 169, 172, 174, 191, 221, 226, 246, 249

Urquhardt, Brian, 71

US State Department, 32, 35

Vermeer, 204, 208–214, 220, 229, 238

Vietnam war, 47, 49

Villa Solaia, 6

Virilio, Paul, 198–199, 226

Vivante, Elena, 6

vision, 57, 138, 156, 169, 172, 176, 194, 215, 222

visual art, 119, 120, 134, 135, 136, 183, 204, 215

Waldheim, Kurt, 3, 36–39, 50, 60, 65, 66, 68, 242

Walkowitz, Rebecca, 11–12