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...American businessman is a persecuted minority, discriminated against and penalized for his achievements," said Ayn Rand last night at the Ford Hall Forum. The controversial novelist maintained that the American businessman is "the scapegoat of the bureaucrats' hatred...
...preface to For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand writes: "I am often asked whether I am primarily a novelist or a philosopher. The answer is: both." All novelists are philosophers to some degree; but as her new book most conclusively demonstrates, very few of them philosophize as much or as openly as does Miss Rand...
...Intellectual presents the major philosophical passages from Ayn Rand's four novels, Atlas Shrugged. The Fountain-head, Anthem, We the Living. It is prefaced by a 60-page, non-fiction introduction which summarizes her beliefs. Miss Rand's writing occasionally lapses into a somewhat offensive pomposity ("I offer the present book as a lead for those who wish to gain an integrated existence"), and certain portions combine in one volume a great many interesting ideas, which, taken together, have intrigued many contemporary thinkers...
...editors, let us avoid propositions, devise programs; it is wiser. And so they do, save for their publication of a few nasty, unnecessarily long swipes at the far right. (A Mr. K. T., for example, tells use that he has "nothing in particular against capitalists" but that unlike Ayn Rand he does not "find them an acceptable substitute for God, and would submit that Miss Rand's compulsion to apotheosize them indicates something about the soundness of her thought." Another column, "Retreat," when it is not offensively chatty, is absurdly serious enough to comment that the right-wing magazine...
...professional businessman and the professional intellectual, both born with the advent of capitalism, are well on their way toward wiping each other out, Ayn Rand declared at the Ford Hall Forum last night. And, she noted, the intellectual is largely to blame for his own demise...