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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comBIG SISTER IS WATCHING YOU 185seemed “begeistered” or hypnotized by her ideas. Then Peikoff, teachingan introductory philosophy course as part of his Ph.D., caused a furorby replacing a unit on Immanuel Kant with a unit on Objectivism.Rand was embarrassed by the uproar but used the occasion to strikeup a correspondence with Hook. She professed to admire his viewsand was clearly interested in establishing a rapport, but he declinedher request to meet. When the two were finally introduced in personat the University of Wisconsin as co-panelists at an ethics symposium,Hook was unimpressed. He later told Barbara, “It seemed to me thatwhen I spoke she did not so much as listen as wait for me to cease talking,in order to resume the thread of what she was saying. At the timeshe did not appear very analytical in her responses.” 32 Rand’s desire forcomplete agreement with her ideas and her single-minded focus onconsistency were distasteful to Hook.During this time Rand continued reaching out to professional philosophers,trading books and brief complimentary letters with BrandBlanshard, a Yale professor and leading interpreter of Aristotle. Latershe would also connect with the head of the Philosophy Department atHobart College, George Walsh, who became a dedicated NBI student inthe late 1960s. 33 But neither had the promise of John Hospers, a youngrising professor with a doctorate from Columbia. Rand and Hospersmet when she spoke at Brooklyn College, where Hospers was teaching.A specialist in ethics, Hospers was struck by her unusual perspectiveand the two spent the night deep in philosophical conversation. WhenHospers relocated to California they corresponded in long letters. Hewas smitten by Rand’s work and cried upon reading The Fountainhead.This appreciation kept him tethered to Rand even as she denigratedhis profession. Hospers found Rand’s blanket condemnation of all modernphilosophers difficult to take. He told her, “I see on the students’faces that it is all beginning to jell in their minds, that the ‘integration—experience’ is now theirs, thanks to my careful presentation and probingquestions. And then I go home and get a letter from you, for which I AMvery grateful, but in it you condemn all modern philosophy—whichpresumably includes everything that I have been laboriously doingthroughout so many of my waking hours.” 34 Still, Hospers found Rand astimulating sparring partner. Although they often disagreed, he rememberedthat “I wasn’t so concerned with what conclusion we ended up