Word: objectivists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pacifica stations often find themselves set upon from all quarters. They get ultraconservative barbs for broadcasting taped speeches by Malcolm X and the views of Radicals Tom Hayden and Jerry Rubin. Broadcasts by Conservative William Buckley and right-wing "Objectivist" Ayn Rand have stirred anguished complaints from offended liberals...
Because Review tries to avoid what Buckley calls "extreme apriorism," it has parted company with some dogmatic conservatives. "Objectivist" Ayn Rand, who believes that all human activity should be self-serving, refuses even to appear in the same room with Buckley because the Review panned her novel Atlas Shrugged. Max Eastman resigned, with barbs on both sides, after he accused Buckley of tying conservatism too closely to religion...
...second, much smaller, national student organization goes by the name Intercollegiate Society of Individualists (ISI). Other than that ISI is ideologically grounded in the "objectivist" philosophy (reason, self-interest, individualism, capitalism) of novelist Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), little is known about this group...
...objectivist John Galt Circle created itself Sunday by ratifying a constitution described as "rather weird" by a founding member. Nevertheless Howard C. Hood '65, chairman of the club, said that his group is now ready to seek University recognition...
About 20 members approved the club name and the constitution, which defined the organization's purpose as the "discussion and dissemination of objectivist ideas...