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Galt, the namesake of the club, is a fictional hero of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged who ran away from society to form his own "Utopia of Greed." Members of the Circle emphatically deny similar intentions, and said that the name was chosen because "Galt represents the principle of rational self-interest fundamental to objectivism...
...sure," he continued, "that the Goldwater people and the followers of Ayn Rand, who were with us in Sproul Hall, would resent the assertion that they had been communist infiltrated...
Authoress Ayn Rand drew heavy applause last night after she termed Barry Goldwater "the best candidate available at the moment." She spoke at the first program in a series of lectures on her work...
Having decided after long and clamorous struggle that "the day of the small, family-held corporation is gone." Vivien Kellems, 65, Connecticut's would-be Joan of Arc whose "voices" seem to ring like Ayn Rand, sold out her 34-year-old cable-grip works in Stonington. But her vendetta against the Internal Revenue Service would go on. Renouncing a 1961 pledge to stick to her "knitting by the fireside" (among other reasons: she can't knit). Liberty Belle Kellems menacingly warned the bureaucratic foe: "I'm just getting a second breath...
...from reality. For the conversations seem suspended in a theoretical and emotional world of their own, to which we are denied entrance. The novel never really puts to a test the ideas the characters mouth, and as a result it is dogmatic and unconvincing. The Centurions reads like an Ayn Rand novel, with a kind of crazy internal logic, but without contiguity with the world. The conversations are all terribly knowing, but they smell of a sick and dangerous self-induced naivete...