Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [263]
If a young man, he said: “Ayn Rand as a Public Speaker,” July 7, 2006.
the freedom to think: FTNI, p. 127.
she felt real love for him: “Ayn Rand’s Life.”
disapproved of his wife’s working for the Communists: TPOAR, p. 44.
Anna was a little “pink”: 100 Voices, NR, p. 11.
“You must see clearly”: “Ayn Rand in Russia.”
“She spoke about him with more respect”: author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, March 23, 2004.
the crucial role that work and money play: A People’s Tragedy, p. 772.
Natasha studied piano: “Home Atmosphere.”
fellow students Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich: St. Petersburg, pp. 336, 340–57.
Anna approved of Natasha’s choice: “Ayn Rand’s Life.”
became a teacher like her mother: “Ayn Rand in Russia;” 100 Voices, NR, p. 4.
“to have a factual knowledge of man’s past”: “About the Author,” AS, p. 1070.
make a living as a writer: TPOAR, p. 41–42.
N. O. Lossky: The Russian Radical, pp. 83–89.
surveyed the pre-Socratic philosophers: “The Ayn Rand Transcript,” pp. 3–4.
she learned from Lossky: Dr. Sciabarra was the first scholar to point out this important element in AR’s training and its effect on her thinking (introduction to The Russian Radical, p. 11).
people often didn’t want to talk to her: “Ayn Rand’s Life.”
no known friends: McConnell, “Recollections of Ayn Rand I.”
“beat me to all my ideas”: AR, p. 22.
Nietzsche’s work was popular among intellectuals: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, New Myth, New World: From Nietzsche to Stalinism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002), pp. 1–25.
“that it doesn’t have to be collective”: EOTF, p. 37.
It wasn’t until she was writing The Fountainhead: As an adult, AR once said that she would never commit suicide as long as she had a copy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Shosana Milgram, “The Road to Roark,” speech presented at an ARI Conference in Industry Hills, California, July 2003, based on material in the ARI Archives). For a fascinating discussion of AR and Nietzsche, see Ronald Merrill, The Ideas of Ayn Rand (Chicago: Open Court Press, 1991).
leader of a group: EOWTL, p. 52; 100 Voices, NR, p. 14.
His name was Lev Bekkerman: All information about AR and Lev Bekkerman is based on EOWTL, pp. 52–56, and AR, p. 22.
An engineering student at St. Petersburg Technical Institute: Like Leo Kovalensky, Kira Argounova bore a resemblance to Lev Bekkerman, in that she was an engineering student at St. Petersburg Technical Institute.43
“The first time I saw him”: EOTF, p. 52.
bought cheap seats: Ayn Rand, “No,” TEAR, p. 232; McConnell, Recollections of AR I.”
lifelong favorite, Emmerich Kálmán’s Die Bajadere: “Ayn Rand in Russia.”
sat “solemn, erect”: WTL, p. 208.
“I knew he didn’t like it”: EOWTL, p. 53.
he pointedly ignored her: TPOAR, p. 48.
“The whole issue [of Lev]”: EOWTL, p. 54.
he had been accused of plotting: EOWTL, pp. 55–56.
she would almost certainly have remained in Russia: EOWTL, pp. 55–56.
“I would have stayed”: TPOAR, p. 49.
By the time she spoke about it: That is, on tape to BB in 1960–61.
“yelling in despair”: AR, p. 27.
favorite piece for the year 1924: “Ayn Rand’s Musical Biography.”
Rand developed a passion: Operettas “really saved my life,” AR once said. In the years during which Stalin was rising to power, “my sense of life was kept going on that” (AR: SOL, p. 5).
that…the Bolshevik government made available: “Ayn Rand in Russia.”
“I was there every Saturday”: EOWTL, p. 120.
attending Russian-made movies: “An Illustrated Life.”
sophisticated American and European films: “Ayn Rand in Russia.”
seeing more than one hundred movies: Ayn Rand, Russian Writings on Hollywood, Michael S. Berliner, ed., Dina Garmong, trans. (Los Angeles: ARI Press, 1999), pp. 173–89.
“It was almost as if I had a private avenue”: “Ayn Rand in Russia.”
Her favorite film: “Ayn Rand in Russia.”
Veidt, a German Jew: A History of the Jews, p. 479.
She had chosen him: “Ayn Rand in Russia.”
“a heart like a pavement, trampled by many feet”: WTL,