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Isn't this a trip down memory lane? Eleven years ago in this very thread I declined to nominate California's high-speed rail on the grounds that it might never happen. It still hasn't happened.

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Isn't this a trip down memory lane? Eleven years ago in this very thread I declined to nominate California's high-speed rail on the grounds that it might never happen. It still hasn't happened.

An article that makes for interesting reading in connection with The Fountainhead and Rand's theories about art. Sullivan was her model for Henry Cameron.
The author's observation that highrise is on the decline in the US but going strong in China raises a question: has technology decentralized work so that such buildings are obsolete? If so, you'd expect freer markets to catch on sooner. On the other hand, maybe politics brought this on by making big cities more expensive, dilapidated and dangerous.

An article that makes for interesting reading in connection with The Fountainhead and Rand's theories about art. Sullivan was her model for Henry Cameron.
The author's observation that highrise is on the decline in the US but going strong in China raises a question: has technology decentralized work so that such buildings are obsolete? If so, you'd expect freer markets to catch on sooner. On the other hand, maybe politics brought this on by making big cities more expensive, dilapidated and dangerous.

Thanks, I learned a new word " irredentist" ( a word the spell checker program doesn't recognize, so not the only one lol). Being a New World , American chauvinist the idea that the changing of territories happens frequently enough throughout west civilization in the Old World they needed a word for it feels, somewhat surprisingly, intuitively correct.
I mean I did use the "word"  'Alcase -Lorraine-y' in describing the context of the current Russo-Ukrainian war.

Another suggestion: minds (i.e. certain capacities and activities of certain living organisms) are a part of reality. They require (which is not to say that they are) certain physical equipment in the external world. Try to give an account of even the most primitive consciousness without it.

Somebody has done a 3-D rendering of the house Wright designed for Rand. It's only a couple of still pictures, not a full walkthrough such as digital reconstructors have done with many of Wright's demolished or never-built designs. Such a treatment for the Rand design may be impossible, since the project never got to the detail stage.
In the meantime, the most beautiful of the full realizations is a tour of the Imperial Hotel, which stood for almost 50 years in Tokyo.

Somebody has done a 3-D rendering of the house Wright designed for Rand. It's only a couple of still pictures, not a full walkthrough such as digital reconstructors have done with many of Wright's demolished or never-built designs. Such a treatment for the Rand design may be impossible, since the project never got to the detail stage.
In the meantime, the most beautiful of the full realizations is a tour of the Imperial Hotel, which stood for almost 50 years in Tokyo.

Queer as a coot

Queer as a coot

Sciabarra tracked down her academic transcripts several years ago.

Vocabulary question:
I thought a visa was an authorization to enter a country. If you're trying to leave your home country, don't you want a passport?

I second your analysis. If the Republicans get control of the House we'll be in for two years of rancorous, bad-willed divided government that won't be able to move any big legislation, and that's the best we could have hoped for.
Another piece of good news is that the state-level abortion initiatives went the way I hoped. At National Review they're already trying to rationalize it away.

I second your analysis. If the Republicans get control of the House we'll be in for two years of rancorous, bad-willed divided government that won't be able to move any big legislation, and that's the best we could have hoped for.
Another piece of good news is that the state-level abortion initiatives went the way I hoped. At National Review they're already trying to rationalize it away.

Say what you will about Dobbs, the recent EPA decision is shaping up as very good news. Here's an example of just how happy we should be.
 

Remember Ma Chalmers and her soybeans?

This brings up a related question: how does the novel's historical setting affect first-time readers today? It was a bit of a period piece in 1957 (execs no longer took cross-country business trips by train; network radio was no longer the primary news and entertainment medium) and a bit more when I first read it. For most newcomers today it's a book of their great-grandparents' era. Does this make it harder or easier (or neither) to get into?

This brings up a related question: how does the novel's historical setting affect first-time readers today? It was a bit of a period piece in 1957 (execs no longer took cross-country business trips by train; network radio was no longer the primary news and entertainment medium) and a bit more when I first read it. For most newcomers today it's a book of their great-grandparents' era. Does this make it harder or easier (or neither) to get into?

This brings up a related question: how does the novel's historical setting affect first-time readers today? It was a bit of a period piece in 1957 (execs no longer took cross-country business trips by train; network radio was no longer the primary news and entertainment medium) and a bit more when I first read it. For most newcomers today it's a book of their great-grandparents' era. Does this make it harder or easier (or neither) to get into?

Side point: Rand got one detail wrong about The Best Years of our Lives. On p. 367-368 of Journals she says that the movie shows a rich businessman bouncing a war hero from a flight, when in fact the opening scene establishes that the businessman has a reservation while the vet is on standby. Most Americans of the era would have recognized that this is what "space available" means.
She asks "What is the point of this episode - if not the implication that the vicious, unpatriotic rich are grossly indifferent to war heroes?" The point might be that the military is ungrateful to its vets for not buying them reserved seats, but more likely it's simply a way of heightening the character's tension, and the audience's, about seeing him safely home.

Angi has posted digital realizations of some of FLlW's unbuilt houses, including one for Rand and her husband. Unfortunately it's only still pictures, not a 3-D walkthrough. (For a great example of the latter, see the Imperial Hotel.)
I'd hate to have to open and close all those louvered windows each day.

Similar history here. I heard the story as gossip and found it too weird to believe, so I didn't until BB's book came out years later.
The two published In Reply to Ayn Rand a and sent it to the Objectivist subscriber list. He said that what finally, irrevocably broke them up was his telling her that the age difference was "an insurmountable barrier to a romantic relationship". We took it to mean that she wanted to start it, not revive it.
The text used to be at his website and perhaps in one of his books.

Similar history here. I heard the story as gossip and found it too weird to believe, so I didn't until BB's book came out years later.
The two published In Reply to Ayn Rand a and sent it to the Objectivist subscriber list. He said that what finally, irrevocably broke them up was his telling her that the age difference was "an insurmountable barrier to a romantic relationship". We took it to mean that she wanted to start it, not revive it.
The text used to be at his website and perhaps in one of his books.

Some possible examples of gay-turned-straight are the movie Enigma and Noel Coward's play Present Laughter. They weren't remakes, but they took real-life gay people and turned them straight, Alan Turing in the first case and Coward himself in the second.
People have been speculating for decades that George and Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf are both men, but the author insisted otherwise.