Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [282]
a flame he holds on a leash: TF, p. 85.
thrusts and shoots through the earth’s crust: TF, p. 726.
“convulsion of anger, of protest, of resistance”: TF, p. 207.
“a first cause”: TF, p. 711.
“The act of a master”: TF, p. 220.
finally made and met someone who does: That AR is not advocating rape in an ordinary sense is made clear in a letter she wrote to a fan in 1946: “You write as if you thought that the lesson to be derived from [the relationship of Howard Roark and Dominique Francon] is that a man should force himself on a woman. But the fact is that Howard Roark did not actually rape Dominique; she had asked for it and he knew she wanted it. A man who would force himself on a woman against her wishes would be committing a dreadful crime. What Dominique liked about Roark was the fact that he took responsibility for the romance and his own actions. Most men nowadays, like Peter Keating, expect to seduce a woman, or rather they let her seduce them and they shift the responsibility to her;” letter to Waldo Coleman, June 6, 1946 (LOAR, p. 282). In the 1960s, some of AR’s male followers would make the mistake the letter writer made and try to force themselves on girls whom they considered “Dominiques.”
a contorted form of hero worship: TF, p. 245.
“myself in a bad mood”: TPOAR, p. 134.
find ecstasy in their struggle: TF, p. 221.
opens in 1922: March 8, 1938 (JOAR, p. 166).
materials on architectural history: BBTBI; in an essay by Shoshana Milgram entitled “The Fountainhead from Notebook to Novel,” in EOTF, a footnote states that on March 18, 1936, Jennie M. Flexner, readers’ advisor at the New York Public Library, prepared an annotated list of recommended architectural texts for AR.
studying the masters: BBTBI.
she had barely heard of Wright: BBTBI.
“temple to man”: Wright, An Autobiography, p. 154.
echoes the young Wright’s argument: Wright, An Autobiography, pp. 125–28.
substitutes the name of H. L. Mencken: April 25, 1938 (JOAR, p. 182).
“Dear Mr. Rand”: Letter from Eugene Masselink, December 31, 1937, Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona, R022D05.
Taliesin West: Frank Lloyd Wright, p. 495.
arranged to be introduced: According to Secrest, the intermediaries were Blanche Knopf and Ely Jacques Kahn; Frank Lloyd Wright, p. 496.
“I felt this would be an unrepeatable occasion”: TPOAR, p. 189.
felt no immediate rapport: Frank Lloyd Wright, p. 496.
imploring him to see her: Letters to FLW dated December 12, 1937, and November 7, 1938 (LOAR, pp. 108–111); thanks to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Ariz., for authentication of Wright’s letters to AR.
compared their attitudes to those of Wright: February 23, 1937 to November 28, 1937 (JOAR, pp. 122–44).
Lewis Mumford: Mumford was the author of an architectural survey called Sticks and Stones. Toohey’s fictional history of architecture was called Sermons in Stone.
“You could sense the bared teeth behind [his] smile”: BBTBI.
Toohey in the flesh: BBTBI.
in 1935: December 26, 1935 (JOAR, p. 89).
“You held a leash”: TF, p. 691.
“rules the mob”: JOAR, p. 89.
“individualism versus collectivism”: In BB’s biographical interviews from 1960–61, AR stated that she had understood her theme in 1935. The quoted description is from 1942 (undated entry, JOAR, p. 223).
the rights of the creative individual: BBTBI.
vindication of modern architecture: BBTBI.
brought her along to professional seminars: December 6, 1937 (JOAR, p. 152).
helped to engineer her introduction to Frank Lloyd Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright, p. 496.
“valorizes [that group’s] cacophony”: Author interview with Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, July 5, 2005.
based on the department store magnate Marshall Field III: Note from Bobbs-Merrill editor Archibald Ogden to company president D. L. Chambers, March 6, 1943; Bobbs-Merrill Collection, courtesy of the Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Blooming-ton, Indiana.
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