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We the Living is the first novel published by the Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand.
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Rand began The Fountainhead ( originally titled Second-Hand Lives ) following the completion in 1934 of her first novel, We the Living.
Rand's intention was to write a novel that was less overtly political than We the Living, to avoid being " considered a ' one-theme ' author ".
Macmillan Publishing, which had published We the Living, rejected the book after Rand insisted that they must provide more publicity for her new novel than they did for the first one.
This interpretation has been taken up by several Christian authors and preachers since then ( such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth ; Grant R. Jeffrey's Armageddon: Appointment with Destiny ; M. R. De Haan's The Signs of the Times ; Tim LaHaye's Are We Living in the End Times?
Roots of this movement can perhaps be traced to some of Bradford Angier's books, such as At Home in the Woods ( 1951 ) and We Like it Wild ( 1963 ), or perhaps even more compellingly to the 1954 publication of Helen and Scott Nearing's book, Living the Good Life.
Rickie Lee Jones ' critically acclaimed album Pirates and songs such as " We Belong Together " and " Living It Up " are reminiscent of early Laura Nyro songs, and Jones acknowledged Nyro's influence.
Rand observes in the foreword to this book that We the Living was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography.
We the Living was first completed in 1934, but, despite support from H. L. Mencken, who deemed it " a really excellent piece of work ," it was rejected by several publishers until 1936, when George Platt Brett of Macmillan Publishing agreed to publish her book.
When Rand's final novel, Atlas Shrugged, became a best-seller, Random House decided to republish We the Living.
Without Rand's permission, We the Living, which had been published in an Italian translation in 1937, was made into a two-part film, Noi Vivi and Addio, Kira in 1942.
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We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.
We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.
We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.
We know that much is made of the multiplicity and ambiguity of the identities that cluster around the key symbol of the Jew.
We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;
We find, in the first place, that the students overwhelmingly approve of higher education, positively evaluate the job their own institution is doing, do not accept most of the criticisms levelled against higher education in the public prints, and, on the whole, approve of the way their university deals with value-problems and value inculcation.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.
We believe that autism, like so many other conditions of defect and deviation, is to a large extent inborn.
We feel that The Detroit News is to be complimented upon arranging for articles on these subjects and we hope that it will continue to provide material along wholesome lines.
If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.
We repeat, that the test of a violation of 7 is whether, at the time of suit, there is a reasonable probability that the acquisition is likely to result in the condemned restraints.
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