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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com216WHO IS JOHN GALT? 1957–1968Saturday nights at Rand’s apartment remained the most covetedinvitation in Objectivist society. Most of Rand’s original group continuedto attend the weekly sessions, and they always tried to be togetheron New Year’s Eve, one of Rand’s favorite holidays. As the clock turned,Rand made a great show of retreating to her bedroom with Frank, whowould emerge later with lipstick smeared on his face. Rand extendedher favor to those who boasted extraordinary professional success orintellectual or artistic talent, but the Collective remained primarily afamily affair. The only outsiders successfully adopted married in, such asCharles Sures, the husband of Mary Ann Rukavina, an art student whohad worked as Rand’s typist when she wrote Atlas Shrugged. Around theCollective orbited several loose bands of more dedicated Objectivists,who might occasionally be invited to a Saturday night gathering atRand’s apartment or a private party hosted by one of the Collective.Newcomers to NBI were directed to start with Nathan’s twenty-weeklecture series, “Basic Principles of Objectivism,” the prerequisite for allfurther study. It was by far the most popular of NBI’s offerings, withsome students even taking it twice. Most Objectivists took the coursevia tape transcription in the city where they lived, but Branden deliveredthe lectures live in New York City, where he consistently attractedan enrollment of nearly two hundred students each time it was offered.Although Branden sprinkled his own psychological theories throughthe curriculum, his course was primarily dedicated to a broad summaryof Rand’s ideas, covering her positions on reason, altruism, economics,art, and sex.The first lecture situated Objectivism within the history of philosophyand covered the “bankruptcy of today’s culture.” The next two lectureswere more technical, covering philosophical topics such as reason,abstraction, concept formation, identity, and causality. A third lecturewas devoted to “the destructiveness of the concept of God.” The coursethen began to focus on proper cognitive processes, mixing philosophicaland psychological concepts. It branched next into a focus on Rand’sethics, including a discussion of economics and capitalism. The last lecturestackled free-standing topics such as the nature of evil, art, and sex,including a lecture on “the nature and purpose of art” given by Rand.The final lecture promised to answer the question of why “humanbeings repress and drive underground, not the worst within them, but