Word: atlas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eminent claim to fame, however, at least in the Boston area, consists of its prodigious poster campaigns. It has become almost impossible to walk down any street in Cambridge without encountering posters emblazoned with "Wanted for Murder--Karl Marx," or IRS--Your Money and Your Life," or "Read Atlas shrugged". The posters have suffered erosion by angry fingernails and ball point pens, but Wright maintains that they still constitute the group's chief means of advertising...
...patterned swimsuit and a low-cut fishnet jersey. If these Americans fail to stir the Munich stadium crowds, West German Uwe Beyer almost certainly will. After winning the bronze medal in the hammer throw at Tokyo in 1964, Beyer gave up sport to enter his Nordic features and Mr. Atlas physique in show business. He flopped first in the movies, then as a crooner and vanished from the public eye. Now he is back, hurling the hammer better than ever...
Fifteen years later she followed it with her bombshell, Atlas Shrugged, which has since provoked a divorce of the libertarian from the conservative right and made Rand into an arch-hero or arch-villain, to those on the right. The novel portrays the fundamental issue of our time--and all time--as that of selfishness versus altruism, liberty versus tyranny, capitalism versus socialism. She begins from the premise that man is an end in himself, and that his morality should ultimately bring him happiness. The pursuit of happiness, Rand says further, is a selfish drive. If one attacks selfishness...
...Atlas Shrugged, Rand responds that if fulfillment is best gained through altruist or socialist systems, then rational men in free, non-coercive societies will choose these systems. If they are not the most fulfilling, men will choose others. The absolutely most important right to preserve, she says, is the right of choosing the system one wants to live under--and respecting others' rights to do the same. When altruism becomes compulsory or socialism becomes coercive, she maintains, this right dies...
...book that remains his most popular, with more than a million copies sold. It evokes an instinctive materialism based more on the senses than the intellect, and the flesh becomes identified with the sensuous geography of his native country: "I have been marking your body's white atlas/ with crosses of fire./ My mouth was a spider which crossed, hiding itself./ In you, behind you, fearful, thirsty...