Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [314]
advertising reply card for NBI: The reply card was the brainstorm of Robert Hessen, at that time a graduate student at Columbia University and part-time employee of NBI. Hessen recalls one evening in 1961 or 1962 when AR and NB assembled the Collective and a few other Objectivists to bawl them out for not contributing enough to the advancement of AR’s philosophy. They named Hessen as an example to the contrary, praising his ideas for the reply card, the book service, and the soon-to-be-launched tape transcription service; “I was mortified.” Author interview with Robert Hessen, October 17, 2007.
most expensive paperback ever sold: TPOAR, p. 299.
NAL republished Anthem: The NAL edition of Anthem was published in September 1961. By late 1963, there were five hundred thousand copies of Anthem in print (“Objectivist Calendar,” TON, January 1962 and November 1963, pp. 1, 41).
Participants arrived once a week: Author interview with Florence Hirschfeld, Jonathan Hirschfeld, and EK, August 25, 2006.
each paying half the New York rate: NBI flyer, September 1964, courtesy of Lee Clifford.
gave readings of Rand’s plays: “Objectivist Calendar,” TON, October 1963 and May 1965, p. 22.
wrote proudly of having aided Rand’s transformation: MYWAR, p. 237.
it was the buzz and growing influence: http://www.solopassion.com/node/1257.
“infinitely more rational”: BBTBI.
“whole enormous response to
Nathan”: http://www.solopassion.com/node/1257.
“I hate bitterness”: MYWAR, p. 251.
“I’m inclined to think, in the end, no”: Author interview with NB, May 5, 2004.
FOURTEEN: ACCOUNT OVER DRAWN: 1962–1967
“It does not matter that only a few in each generation”: Introduction to TF, p. xii.
Yale Law School’s prestigious Challenge series: The lecture took place on February 17, 1960.
In a car on the way to New Haven: TPOAR, p. 315.
the New Haven Symphony Orchestra: “Down with Altruism,” Time, February 29, 1960.
thought of Yale as a breeding ground for liberals: Author interview with Robert Hessen, October 17, 2007; TPOAR, p. 315.
the overflow was so great: From an unpublished 1984 tribute to AR by Larry Scott, who was a Yale student at the time of AR’s speech; courtesy of MSC.
“Young man: the janitors!”: TPOAR, p. 316.
several times interrupted by applause: Ed Barthelmes, “First mailed copy” for Time article (“Personal newspaper clippings 1916–1960,” Isabel Paterson Papers, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, box 6).
“Do not confuse altruism”: “Faith and Force: Destroyers of the Modern World,” reprinted in Philosophy: Who Needs It (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1982).
a revealing anecdote: Ed Barthelmes, “First mailed copy” for Time article.
she said that she hated speaking: Author correspondence with BB, June 17, 2008.
“As an advocate of reason, freedom”: The speech, delivered at the Ford Hall Forum on March 26, 1961, was titled “The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age;” a version appears in The Voice of Reason, Leonard Peikoff, ed. (New York: New American Library, 1989); quote is from AR, p. 94.
“radical for capitalism”: “Conservatism: An Obituary” was delivered at Princeton University on December 7, 1960, and was reprinted in Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal.
nearly twice as many students: “Ayn Rand as a Public Speaker.”
addressed an overflow audience in Ferris Booth Hall: The speech was “Faith and Force: Destroyers of the Modern World,” delivered at Columbia University, May 5, 1960.
“That’s when I was struck”: Unpublished taped interview of Bertha Krantz by BB, dated September 20, 1983.
at the University of Michigan: On May, 15, 1961, the University of Michigan filmed a postlecture interview with AR on the subject of “The New Intellectual.” “The man who defines the basic, fundamental ideas of a culture is the man who determines history,” she told the interviewer, a professor of philosophy.
Boston University, Brown, Purdue: “Ayn Rand as a Public Speaker.”
she gave a lecture entitled “The Objectivist Ethics”: AR gave this lecture at the University of Wisconsin