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...Greenspan. But before long, Blumenthal, by then named Nathaniel Branden, was her declared "intellectual heir." Writes Heller: "A month before her 50th birthday, she and Nathaniel received their partners' permission to meet for sex twice a week ... The affair provided excitement and deep fulfillment at a crucial, and essentially pleasureless, moment in her writing life." The book in question was Atlas Shrugged, her 1,000-page 1957 masterwork about the government's battle with captains of industry, led by John Galt, for control of the economy. The next year, Branden established an institute to promote Rand's philosophy of reason...
...alliances and fierce resistance. Lena (Isabelle Huppert), a Belgian Jew, emerged from an internment camp with her sad-sack husband Michel (Guy Marchand) and a handmade marital straitjacket. Madeleine (Miou Miou) saw her glamorous first husband die from enemy gunfire in the town square, then fell into a pleasureless marriage with a slimy hustler named Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri). By 1952, when most of Entre Nous takes place, each woman is eager to escape the emotional claustrophobia of cooking the meals, chaperoning the children, counterfeiting passion as Monsieur Wrong rolls toward her in bed. To the anger and chagrin...
...Haven, and New York, some of thirty years standing, went slowly or not at all. Phone calls were not returned notes were not answered, lunch dates were cancelled, not kept or late (without apology), and when at last a meeting was arranged, it was somehow rushed, distracted, and pleasureless, and the small promise that was made ("You'll get a notice of the meeting") was forgotten...
...illustration of the line "playboys who live each hour" (from the poem "The Voyage") two figures make love. They are flat pleasureless forms against an utterly bleak background. They lie on a black band which spans the middle of the page like blacktop crossing a desert. Nolan connects the bodies into the hopelessness of this world by continuing the brushstrokes of the black across their forms. There is no clarity or vitality in their bodies or their...
...Happiness of Nations." Happiness cannot be defined, but may be exemplified by experiences. Voluntary acts are divided into those which are useful and useless; useful acts are subdivided into productive and consumptive ones; consumptive acts, in turn, are divided into positive and negative, and productive acts into pleasurable and pleasureless ones. Productive acts are further subdivided into compulsory and spontaneous acts...
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