This major figure in The Fountainhead epitomized the " second-hander " who – in stark opposition to the uncompromising and innovative hero of the novel, Howard Roark, and exemplified in real life by Frank Lloyd Wright, whom Rand idolized – adapts the classicist and historicist Old World architectural styles to the new American medium of the skyscraper, and then goes on to adopt modernism as soon as this becomes safely fashionable.

Certain specific incidents in the fictional Keating's career are pointed to by Heynick as having been drawn from Hood's real-life career, such as their both suddenly gaining national fame by winning the highly-publicized skyscraper contest for a media corporation in the early 1920s with a design in the historicist style, and their both heading the committee for a " modernistic " World's Fair in the 1930s from which the hero architect ( Howard Roark in the novel, Frank Lloyd Wright in real-life ) was excluded.

* Howard Roark, protagonist of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead

Similarly, in the 1943 novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Howard Roark is chosen to design a resort called Monodnack Valley and it is subsequently revealed that the investors had sold 200 % of the shares, convinced that the project would be a flop and that they had chosen Howard Roark as the worst possible person for the job.

In the early 1930s the novel's male protagonist, the controversial architect Howard Roark, gets a contract to build in Clayton the ( fictional ) Janer's Department Store, a five-storey building.

The Fountainheads protagonist, Howard Roark, is an individualistic young architect who chooses to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision.

In the spring of 1922, architecture student Howard Roark is expelled from the fictional Stanton Institute of Technology for refusing to adhere to the school's conventionalism in architecture.

Dominique Francon is the heroine of The Fountainhead, described by Rand as " the woman for a man like Howard Roark.

His biggest threat is the strength of the individual spirit enshrined in Howard Roark.

Peter Keating and Howard Roark are character foils.

Architect Fred Stitt, founder of the San Francisco Institute of Architecture, dedicated a book to his " first architectural mentor, Howard Roark ".

In 1949, Warner Brothers released a film based on the book, starring Gary Cooper as Howard Roark, Patricia Neal as Dominique Francon, Raymond Massey as Gail Wynand, and Kent Smith as Peter Keating.

" Four Great Women and a Manicure ", an episode of the animated comedy series The Simpsons, loosely adapts The Fountainhead as the segment " Maggie Roark ", casting Maggie Simpson, as voiced by Jodie Foster, as Howard Roark.

Roark enjoys many sports and was named after Howard Roark, a character in the book The Fountainhead.

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* Wynand Building ( New York City )-the creation of the uncompromising, objectivist architect Howard Roark, it features in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead ( 1949 ).

* Howard Roark, the protagonist of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead

* Steven Mallory is a fictional young sculptor who is hired by and becomes a close friend of Architect Howard Roark in Ayn Rand's 1943 novel, The Fountainhead

The Randian hero is a ubiquitous figure in the fiction of 20th-century novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, most famously in the figures of The Fountainheads Howard Roark and Atlas Shruggeds John Galt.

Bobby Joe had been sitting close to her, touching her actually, and holding her hand from time to time, but it seemed at once that Howard sat much closer.

A detachment of six men from the 701st Chemical Maintenance Company under First Lt. Howard D. Beckstrom went aboard, followed by Lt. Thomas H. Richardson, the Cargo Security Officer.

Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

Fleming finally abandoned penicillin, and not long after he did, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford took up researching and mass-producing it, with funds from the U. S. and British governments.

The AIM-7 Sparrow medium range missile ( MRM ) was purchased by the US Navy from original developer Howard Hughes

Booster Systems Engineer Jenny M. Howard acted quickly to command the crew to inhibit any further automatic SSME shutdowns based on readings from the remaining sensors, preventing the potential shutdown of a second engine and a possible abort mode that may have resulted in the loss of the vehicle and crew.

However, none of these parameters differ significantly from early writings of Howard and Balfour, suggesting that in fact modern composting has not made significant advances over the traditional methods that take a few months to work.

Despite popular perception that the CRTC banned Sirius Canada from broadcasting Howard Stern's program, this is not the case.

Having digested these prior influences after he returned from his trip, Howard rewrote the rejected story " By This Axe I Rule!

Additionally, many of the Conan stories by Howard, de Camp and Carter used geographical place names from Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean Cycle.

Others were created by rewriting Howard stories which originally featured entirely different characters from entirely different milieus.

The Lancer / Ace editions ( 1966 – 1977 ), under the direction of de Camp and Lin Carter, were the first comprehensive paperbacks, compiling the material from the Gnome Press series together in chronological order with all the remaining original Howard material, including that left unpublished in his lifetime and fragments and outlines.

In an attempt to provide a coherent timeline which fit the numerous adventures of Conan penned by Robert E. Howard and later writers, various " Conan chronologies " have been prepared by many people from the 1930s onward.

According to Howard Schwartz, " the myth of the fall of Lucifer " existed in fragmentary form in Isaiah 14: 12 and other ancient Jewish literature ; Schwartz claims that the myth originated from " the ancient Canaanite myth of Athtar, who attempted to rule the throne of Ba ' al, but was forced to descend and rule the underworld instead ".

Brubeck originally did not intend to become a musician ( his two older brothers, Henry and Howard, were already on that track ), but took lessons from his mother.

The Privy Council ordered the arrest of both Howard and Arundel ; Oxford immediately met secretly with Arundel to convince him to support his allegations against Howard and Southwell, offering him money and a pardon from the Queen.

* IEEE History Center's Edwin H. Armstrong: Excerpt from " The Legacy of Edwin Howard Armstrong ," by J. E. Brittain Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.

The earliest known written evidence of the title is from the November 3, 1863, diary entry of William Howard Russell, in which he referred to gossip about " the First Lady in the Land ," referring to Mary Todd Lincoln.

Madero successfully imported arms from the United States, with the American government under William Howard Taft doing little to halt the flow of arms to the Mexican revolutionaries.

She was a classics major at Scripps College, worked for the Delta Ministry in 1965 and taught at Howard University School of Religion from 1966 to 1976.

Mason and Howard, in order to give the film more of an American feel, came up with the idea of inserting newly-shot footage of newscaster Eric Carter, a UN reporter who spends much of the time commenting on the action from the UN Headquarters via an International Communication Satellite ( ICS ) broadcast, and Arnold Johnson, the head of the Museum of Natural History in New York, who tries to explain Godzilla's origin and his and Kong's motivations.

Well known cinematic movies, which deal with Khufu or at least have the Great Pyramid as a theme, are Howard Hawks ' Land of the Pharaohs from 1955, a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, and Roland Emmerich ´ s Stargate from 1994, in which an extraterrestrial device is found near the pyramids.