Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [291]
his houses were an expression: Letter to FLW (LOAR, p. 113).
“I think I am made of asbestos”: Letter to FLW (LOAR, p. 113).
eager to get Wright to design: Secrest, Frank Lloyd Wright, p. 497.
demand for prior approval: BBTBI.
reminiscent of his 1935 masterpiece, Fallingwater: Roderick Grant, “Wright and Rand,” Journal of the Taliesin Fellows, Spring 1997 (iss. 27), pp. 19–24.
he told her the price, $35,000: Secrest, Frank Lloyd Wright, p. 497.
“My dear lady”: TPOAR, p. 191.
compared them to medieval serfs: TPOAR, p. 190.
the charge that she required hero worship: In “Born Eccentric” in Newsweek of March 27, 1961, and “The Curious Cult of Ayn Rand” in The Saturday Evening Post of November 11, 1961.
was disappointed by the visit: Oral history of William Wesley Peters, recorded on September 24, 1989, courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
need for admiration, strong tendency to moralize: Secrest, Frank Lloyd Wright, p. 497.
reportedly grabbed her cigarette: Ada Louise Huxtable, Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Penguin, 2004), p. 227. Secrest tells this story somewhat differently, reporting that Wright walked out rather than expelling AR, p. 497.
“I deny the paternity”: Huxtable, Frank Lloyd Wright, p. 226.
nicknamed “Boss”: Unpublished letter to Hal Wallis, June 18, 1945 (Hal Wallis Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, box 95).
a critical failure: See, for example, Bosley Crowther, “The Screen,” NYT, August 27, 1945, p. 22.
“wet nurse”: Thanks to David Hayes in “Ayn Rand vs. Hollywood Censorship, Part 3,” footnote 3, Axiomatic, December 2005, for making this observation.
four distinctly different endings: Dates courtesy of project-specific file cards archived in the Hal Wallis Collection, box 95, and the Paramount Script Collection, box 57, housed at the Margaret Herrick Library.
which she had read on the recommendation: Letter to Pincus Berner, February 3, 1945 (LOAR, p. 220).
tried unsuccessfully to interest Wallis: Letter to Barbara Stanwyck, September 7, 1946 (LOAR, p. 318). AR tried to interest Paramount in Red Pawn one more time, in 1963, when she asked screenwriter Al Ramrus to write a new screenplay and enlisted Robert Stack to play Commandant Kareyev. Paramount expressed no interest, and the film was never made (100 Voices, Al Ramrus, pp. 160–61).
flirted mildly: About a photograph of himself Hal Wallis gave her, she wrote, “That’s the way I like to see you look—hard and ruthless (except in relation to my scripts);” letter to Hal Wallis, June 18, 1945 (LOAR, p. 227).
to buy the collected works of Aristotle: Richard McKeon’s Basic Works of Aristotle, containing selections from the complete works (100 Voices, Allan Gotthelf, p. 345).
three new outfits by Adrian: TPOAR, p. 192.
the nature of human existence: Letter to IP, July 26, 1945 (LOAR, p. 179).
the faculty of “rational consciousness”: July 30, 1945 (JOAR, p. 300).
Keating and Toohey are examples: September 18 and 30, 1943 (JOAR, p. 259).
“You have been the one encounter in my life”: TF, p. 684.
echoed Roark’s mixed sympathies: Thanks to Stephen Cox for pointing this out in The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 304.
thought that the Christian morality would one day: The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 306.
“The best possible kindergarten of communism”: December 4, 1935 (JOAR, p. 80).
“an omniscient being”: Letter to IP, August 4, 1945 (LOAR, p. 184).
Rand trusted deductive reasoning too much: Unpublished letter from IP to AR, July 30, 1945 (Isabel Paterson Papers, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, box 4). Thanks to Stephen Cox for his patient explanations of the nature of IP’s intellectual differences with AR.
“the fiat of revelation”: Letter to IP, August 4, 1945 (LOAR, p. 184).
reminding Paterson: Letter to IP, July 26, 1945 (LOAR, pp. 179–80).
“sometimes I [think]”: Unpublished letter from IP to AR, July 30, 1945 (Isabel Paterson Papers, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, box 4).
“Stop taking that benzedrine”: Unpublished letter from IP to AR, January 19, 1944 (Isabel Paterson Papers,