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Novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand received a standing ovation from an audience of 1300 yesterday at Northeastern University after telling them, "Make yourself heard. Speak out against altruism on any scale. Honor the hard, harsh, glorious reality of individual freedom...
...Author Robert Ringer considers himself to be a follower of Ayn Rand, I suggest he study her philosophy further. In The Fountainhead, Hero Howard Roark says of ruthless Newspaper Publisher Gail Wynand...
...could easily present Still as a caricature by Ayn Rand, a bombinating superman nourishing himself on rocks and vinegar. But what is the point? The paintings remain: they are enveloping in scale, impressively consistent in their growth, utterly free of triviality, the products of a singular talent whose dimension will not be fully known in his own lifetime...
...Intimidation caught on, Ringer had Funk & Wagnalls take over the distribution of his book. This was O.K. with Ringer's agent Henry Rearden, who turned out to be Ringer himself, hiding behind the name of a character in Atlas Shrugged, the ponderous novel by his right-wing idol, Ayn Rand...
...many of her dire predictions have come true, too little of her advice has been followed, complained Ideologue Ayn Rand, 70. And that, said the author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, accounts for her decision to stop publishing the Ayn Rand Letter, her monthly four-page tract on objectivist philosophy and laissez-faire capitalism. "I intend to return, full time, to my primary work: writing books," she wrote to her 15,000 subscribers. "The state of today's culture is so low that I do not care to spend my time watching and discussing it. I am haunted...