Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [323]
Prescription drugs, including tranquilizers: Author interviews with Roger J. Callahan, November 4, 2003, and Don Ventura, April 28, 2004.
“disgusting”: AR said this in a question-and-answer period after a speech called “The Moratorium on Brains,” at Ford Hall Forum on November 14, 1971. As a matter of policy, she opposed state intervention in sexual matters and favored the repeal of sodomy laws then on the books in most states (Chris M. Sciabarra, Ayn Rand, Homosexuality, and Human Liberation [Stow, Ohio: Leap Publishing, 2003], p. 8). She was also personally naive. Once, JMB remarked to LP that Rudolf Nureyev, whom she had just seen perform, was gay. LP told AR, and AR came to see JMB. “‘Did you say this?’ she said. ‘Certainly,’ I said. ‘He is a known homosexual and I can see it every time I watch him.’ Her whole demeanor changed, because it was a subject she didn’t know anything about, and she said to me, ‘I can hardly believe it! He’s so well endowed’ “(author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, September 2, 2004).
“It was a wild time”: Author interview with Kerry O’Quinn, May 20, 2004.
Some entered into therapy: During a public debate in May 1967, for example, NB answered a question about how he measured psychotherapeutic success this way: “If a homosexual comes in—if he goes out heterosexual and stays heterosexual, that’s a success” (NB and Albert Ellis debate, May 26, 1967, unpublished tape courtesy of MSC).
relied on a small group of therapists: Author interview with Roger J. Callahan, November 4, 2003.
an investor: Partnership agreement, courtesy of MSC.
surrendered his license: Ellen Plasil, Therapist (New York: St. Martin’s, 1985), p. 221.
“There were those who were extremely hypocritical”: Author interview with Don Ventura, March 19, 2004.
“unreal” and “utterly impossible”: Albert Ellis, Is Objectivism a Religion? (New York: Institute for Rational Living Press, 1968), p. 288.
“Am I unreal?”: MYWAR, p. 317.
later described Rand: Author interview with Albert Ellis, September 12, 2003.
he published a short book: The book was Is Objectivism a Religion?
“the excess of a virtue”: BB to Barbara Weiss; taped, unpublished interview with Weiss conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
“One of the most astonishing phenomena”: “A Strange Kind of Simplicity,” p. 8.
Man Also Rises: AR, p. 101.
“He gave me, in the hours of my own days”: Introduction to the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of TF, p. viii.
“physical alienation”: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 324.
The letter itself appears: Author interview with NB, April 3, 2008.
thought it was as diplomatic: TPOAR, p. 340.
“You bastard!”: TPOAR, p. 340.
“Face twisted in hatred”: MYWAR, p. 334.
“Everyone else profits from my
ideas”: TPOAR, p. 341.
His paper was the worst: TPOARC, RPJ, November 27, 1967, p. 244.
rebuffed the offer as offensive: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 317.
365 accused him of immorality: TPOAR, p. 341.
“I can’t predict”: TPOAR, p. 341.
“pretentious, presumptuous”: TPOARC, RPJ, January 30, 1968, p. 283.
“girl next door”: TPOARC, RPJ, July 12, 1968, p. 369.
“Appalled by Ayn’s terms”: TPOAR, p. 342.
Rand expressed hope: TPOAR, p. 342.
But if he didn’t, she would ruin him: MYWAR, p. 334.
“NB’s mind worked excellently”: TPOARC, RPJ, July 12, 1968, p. 367.
gave Barbara the assignment: TPOARC, RPJ, July 13, 1968, p. 378.
“I do believe”: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1967, pp. 324–25.
“filthy soul”: TPOARC, RPJ, July 8, 1968, p. 351.
At times, she wept in grief: MYWAR, p. 337.
a fascinating conjecture: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 337.
“ought” to do: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 341.
“at least to the extent”: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 322.
She was too much for Nathaniel Branden: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 323.
Since she was also the mirror: TPOARC, RPJ, July 8, 1968, p. 361.
“a real Objectivist hero and
creative genius”: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 324.
“But I am too much for the role-playing imitation”: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 323.
The first was the publication: TPOARC,