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all but twelve of them positive: TPOAR, p. 325.
“more openly, romantically expressive”: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, pp. 330–31.
His eyes were lifeless: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 331.
danced too often with Patrecia: MYWAR, pp. 324–25.
“sex problem”: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 331.
a “subconscious, total renunciation”: TPOARC, RPJ, January 30, 1968, p. 278.
might help to thaw: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 335.
very secret, very private, and very
spiritual romance: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 335.
she seems briefly to have considered: TPOARC, RPJ, February 14, 1968, p. 335.
“I would be the only remnant”: TPOARC, RPJ, March 30, 1968, p. 297.
“You have no right to casual friendships”: MYWAR, p. 331.
“I will not be Cyrano”: TPOARC, RPJ, February 14, 1968, p. 291.
He had surgery: TPOAR, p. 334.
returned to his classes: Author correspondence with Stephanie Cassidy, archivist of the Art Students League, April 22, 2007.
“I wish you hadn’t said it”: Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, March 23, 2004.
357 a young sculptor named Don Ventura: This section is based on author interviews with Ventura, March 19, 2004, and April 28, 2004.
he thought her accent was cute: AR never liked her Russian accent. When JMB once asked her why she didn’t try to correct it, Rand replied that it wasn’t in her to imitate anyone, as people who came to New York with accents had to do; this shows a certain self-consciousness and pride that AR had not exhibited when learning English in the 1920s (author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, March 23, 2004).
surviving witnesses couldn’t agree: For example, the Brandens and Al Ramrus.
the magazine published a notice: The Objectivist, June 1967, p. 288.
Afterward, in a familiar pattern, Rand spoke disparagingly: “An Interview with Nathaniel Branden,” p. 12.
the woman’s eighteen-year-old son, Leonard: Author interview with Leonard Bogat, January 22, 2007.
“a horrible woman”: Author interview with Leonard Bogat, February 1, 2007.
“had been seeking an identity”: Author interviews with Don Ventura, March 19, 2004, and April 28, 2004.
O’Connor ceased painting: “Portrait of an Artist,” p. 1.
O’Connor stopped taking classes: This occurred in May 1966, according to Stephanie Cassidy (author interview, 2007).
“she insisted that Frank be present”: Author interview with BB, September 15, 2005.
“That man [Nathaniel] is no damn good!”: TPOAR, pp. 338–39.
He flew into violent rages: MYWAR, p. 329.
“I want to leave her”: Author interview with BB, September 15, 2005.
expanded his popular … lecture: “The Objectivist Calendar,” The Objectivist, March 1967, p. 239.
he was rehearsing the role: “The Liberty Interview: Nathaniel Branden Speaks,” p. 56.
visited psychedelic nightclubs: Author interview with Iris Bell, March 8, 2004.
“Branden was off in a corner”: Author interview with Al Ramrus, February 22, 2007.
“He was having a slow-motion”: Author interview with Iris Bell, March 8, 2004.
Yet he did not cut back: TPOARC, RPJ, March 20, 1968, p. 296.
lurched between impossible choices: TPOAR, p. 338.
“[I used to race] from my office”: TPOAR, p. 338.
“not [Nathaniel] the person”: BB during unpublished taped interview with Barbara Weiss, September 25, 1983.
Again, she urged him to confess: TPOAR, p. 336.
built small followings: Of one of these disciples, NB’s nephew, Jonathan Hirschfeld, recalled, “[This person] presided over her little universe in the same way that NB presided over his and AR presided over hers, which meant that [she] was handing out points and making people feel uncertain of themselves and insecure. It wasn’t comfortable. It wasn’t adventuresome. It wasn’t curious. It was filled with an assumption about the negativity of the world, about the decadence of the world, about the corruption of the world” (author interview with